SS Milwaukee Clipper SS Milwaukee Clipper SS "Milwaukee Clipper, also known as SS "Clipper" , and formerly as SS "Juniata, is a retired passenger ship and automobile ferry that sailed under two configurations and traveled on all of the Great Lakes except Lake Ontario. Along with the SS Keewatin, "Milwaukee Clipper" is one of only two passenger steamships left on the Great Lakes. The vessel is now docked in Muskegon, Michigan. Her story begins on 22 December 1904, in Cleveland, Ohio, at the shipyards of the American Shipbuilding Company. Christened "Juniata" when launched, she was built for the Anchor Line, the Great Lakes
The Great Lakes Group towing of vessels and barges, icebreaking, as well as rescue and assistance to grounded or damaged ships with a fleet of nearly forty tugboats stationed throughout U.S. Great Lakes ports. Throughout its corporate history, The Great Lakes Towing Company has always operated a Cleveland Shipyard. Originally located on jefferson Road in the Flats until the Great Cuyahoga River fire in 1952 when it moved to the present site in the Old River Bed, the Shipyard constructed many of its tugs and repaired all of the Towing Company's tugs and barges throughout its history. Great Lakes Shipyard is located in the