Episode 16: KEEWATIN Decked! (The Last Edwardian Liner and Link to the TITANIC Era)

The companion audio to our YouTube video!This detailed history and top to bottom tour of one of maritime's greatest treasures, the 1907-built SS KEEWATIN, now preserved at the Great Lakes Museum in Kingston, Ontario, covers her story from Scottish shipyard origins to the present day. The last surviving Canadian Pacific liner of a once vast fleet of liners great and small, she is also one of the few ships with an intact quadruple expansion coal fired engine and original interiors that are literally from the same era as LUSITANIA, MAURETANIA and TITANIC. She was saved from the scrappers by being featured in a popular book called "Farewell To Steam", published the year she was sold for scrap but ice delayed her departure to the breakers and a man named RJ Petersen, after reading about her in that book, purchased the still existing ship from the breakers and brought her to his marina in Saugatuck, Michigan where she was lovingly preserved for decades. In recent years, the KEEWATIN has changed hands and since 2023, has been an integral part of the Great Lakes Museum, where she is open for tours each summer. There is nothing like her afloat as you will see in this detailed top-to-bottom tour hosted by Peter Knego, who also visited the ship three times in Michigan over the years. You will hear the voice of Diane Petersen, KEEWATIN's former co-owner, who purchased "Farewell To Steam" for her husband RJ sixty years ago, leading to their salvation of the ship. Also featured with much gratitude is a library of vintage images supplied by "Know Your Ships" author and Great Lakes Ship Historian Roger Lelievre, who took me on our first visit to the ship in 1996. Music licensed from Artlist: Ty Simm "Something New", Tomar Lane "On Ne Sait jamais", Kie Schpigler "Scotland The Brave", Muts Raynard "Ferris Wheel", Pietro Deiro "Success Medley", Kobe Lilian "Lost For WOrds", Louis Adrien "On The Run", Guy Mintus ""Hungarian Dance #5 Reimagined", Jonathan Hadas "Anitra's Dance", Hadasa Atzman "The Swan", Louis Adrien "Waltzing In Paris", Serno "Little Rondo" and 2050 "Interpretation of a Dream" #edwardianliners #keewatin #greatlakesmuseum #quadrupleexpansionsteamengine #preservedliners #classicships #kingston #linktotitanicAlso on YouTube!https://youtu.be/H5y55_6Xzfg?si=RFaF99dz-RdeAHOP Follow us on all our socials and YouTube!⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/midshipcentury⁠⁠⁠