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CHAMPLAIN II Shipwreck

CHAMPLAIN II Shipwreck - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The steamboat Oakes Ames was built in 1868 by the Napoleon B Proctor Shipyard in Burlington, Vermont for the Rutland Railroad. The 244-foot paddle wheeler was designed to ferry railroad cars from Burlington across Lake Champlain to Plattsburgh, New York. She was named after one of the railroad's directors' Oakes Ames. Read more on Wikipedia

• type: NRHP
• date from: 1868

Source: en.wikipedia.org