Name Hiawatha Completed 1895 Type Ferry Length 17 m Builder Bertram Engine Works | Port of registry Toronto, Ontario Status in active service Beam 4.05 m Depth 1.92 m | |
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Owner Royal Canadian Yacht Club | ||
The Hiawatha is a passenger ferry built in 1895 for the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is 56 feet (17 m) long, 13.3 feet (4.1 m) wide, has a depth of 6.3 feet (1.9 m), and measures 46 gross tons. Her capacity is 100 passengers. She was built by the Bertram Engine Works near Queen's Wharf and named for First Nation leader and co-founder of the Iroquois confederacy Hiawatha.
The Hiawatha is claimed to be the oldest passenger vessel still in active service on the North American Great Lakes.
The Hiawatha has served as a ferry for the yacht club since 1895. She was converted from a steam engine to a gasoline engine in 1944.
On July 26, 2000, both the Hiawatha, and the yacht club's slightly newer ferry, the Kwasind, were sunk by vandals. The Kwasind was refloated, and was back in working order the day of the sinking, while the Hiawatha required further repair.