The Erie Belle was a Great Lakes steam ship which exploded in 1883 along the shores of Lake Huron. The Laurentian Great Lakes are a chain of freshwater lakes located in eastern North America, on the Canada–United States border. A steamboat or steamship, sometimes called a steamer, is a ship in which the primary method of propulsion is steam power, typically driving a Propeller Lake Huron, bounded on the west by the US state of Michigan, and on the east by the province of Ontario, Canada, is one of the five Great Built in 1864 as the Hector, she initially served the east coast of the USA during the Civil War era. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South She sailed for many years as a packet steamer on Lake Erie, until sinking and being re-built as a tug. Lake Erie (ˈɪəriː is the fourth largest Lake (by surface area of the five Great Lakes, and the tenth largest globally TUGboat (ISSN 0896-3207 is a journal published three times per year by the TeX Users Group. During monumental storms in November 1883 she was sent to an area south of Kincardine, Ontario, Canada to rescue the schooner J. The Municipality of Kincardine is located on the shores of Lake Huron in the County of Bruce in the province of Ontario, Canada. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page A schooner (ˈskuːnɚ is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts Schooners were first used by the M. Carter which had been blown ashore. While maneuvering offshore it is thought that the water supply to the boiler was cut off, and when restored, superheated steam blew up the boiler and the ship. Four crewmen died. Ironically, the remains of the boiler are still visible, as the naming feature of "Boiler Beach" two miles south of Kincardine. A popular sea-food restaurant in Kincardine is named after the ship.
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