SS Chief Wawatam
train ferry
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- SS Chief Wawatam
- IMO number
- 5070115
- MMSI
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- Call sign
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- Flag
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- Vessel type
- train ferry
- Gross tonnage
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- Deadweight (DWT)
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- Length overall
- 103.3 m
- Beam
- —
- Year built
- 1911
- Builder
- American Ship Building Company
- Registered owner
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- Operator
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Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About SS Chief Wawatam
Chief Wawatam (nicknamed the Chief) was a coal-fired steel ship in operation on the Great Lakes from 1911 to 1984. It was cut down into a barge by new owners in 1989, and scrapped in 2009. For most of its working life, the vessel was based in St. Ignace, Michigan. It was named after a distinguished Ojibwa chief of the 1760s. In initial revenue service, the Chief Wawatam served as a train ferry, passenger ferry and icebreaker that operated year-round at the Straits of Mackinac between St. Ignace and Mackinaw City, Michigan. During the winter months, it sometimes took many hours to cross the five-mile-wide Straits, and Chief Wawatam was fitted with complete passenger hospitality spaces. Chief Wawatam's work began to change in the 1940s. Its role as an icebreaker stationed in the upper Great Lakes was supplanted in 1944 by USCGC Mackinaw, a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker.
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is SS Chief Wawatam now?
- SS Chief Wawatam has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is SS Chief Wawatam?
- SS Chief Wawatam is a train ferry, built in 1911 by American Ship Building Company. The vessel is 103.3 m long.
- Has SS Chief Wawatam been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for SS Chief Wawatam appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).