Noronic Cruise Ship

Later fireboats arrived to assist.

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Crew members attempted to extinguish the flames but to no avail. 14 of that year she sailed from Detroit for a seven-day cruise to Prescott and the Thousand Islands picking up more passengers in Cleveland. Free cancellation before 48 hours.

At 130 the next morning a passenger noticed smoke seeping from a locked closet. Watch Disasters of the Century Season 3 Episode 8 Noronic Fire on Bad Day HQSS Noronic was a passenger ship that was destroyed by fire in Toronto Harbour in. 118 die aboard cruise ship SS Noronic.

On the evening of September 16 1949 the Noronic a Great Lakes cruise ship carrying 524 passengers docked at Pier 9 100 meters east of here. The ship had embarked from Detroit on Sept. On 17 September in 1949 during the early-morning hours 122 persons perished.

It was a major industry for nearly a century. The Noronic had first set sail all the way back in 1913. The ships carried hundreds of passengers from ports on both sides of the border steaming across the lakes in style.

Nevertheless the anniversary of one of the saddest of these events will be upon us tomorrow for it was exactly 69 years ago Sept. Crew members fought the fire but it erupted into a life-threatening inferno before they could awaken everyone aboard. The Steamship Noronic was the flagship of the Canada Steamship Lines and the largest passenger cruise ship on the Great Lakes.