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Lake Express is a high-speed auto and passenger ferry that is in service on a route across Lake Michigan. Lake Express links the cities of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Muskegon, Michigan, from late spring to the fall of each year.
BackgroundEdit
The ship travels at a top speed of Template:Convert<ref name=austal/> and makes the Template:Convert trip three times daily from each side of the lake during the peak of its operational schedule. Lake Express is able to cross the lake in two and a half hours. It was constructed by Austal USA in Mobile, Alabama,<ref name=austal/> and began service on June 1, 2004.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> It was one of the first high-speed catamaran-style auto/passenger ferries built in the United States. It was also the first high-speed auto ferry to see service on the Great Lakes, beating out the Spirit of Ontario I, which was beset by a series of last-minute delays, by one month.
On August 21, 2005, the ferry rescued a man whose boat had capsized in the middle of Lake Michigan.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
GalleryEdit
- Lake express terminal.jpg
Terminal in Milwaukee Harbor
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En route to Muskegon, Milwaukee fades away at the horizon
- Lake express on lake michigan from airplane.jpg
Lake express visible from airplane
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John Kerry and Teresa Heinz on the Lake express during the 2004 presidential campaign
See alsoEdit
- SS Badger, another ferry on a more northern route across Lake Michigan