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Page 10 Cadillac - Detroit and Windsor Ferry Reprinted from Marine Review January, 1929 The CADILLAC was designed by noted marine architect Frank Kirby. Traffic across the Detroit River between the great city of Detroit and the growing city of Windsor in Ontario, one of Canada's richest and most populous provinces, is growing at an amazing rate. In summer particularly there is a heavy traffic in ferrying automobiles for thousands of tourists and others visiting back and forth between the two countries. For this purpose, both Detroit and Windsor serve as excellent ports of entry and departure. It was to take care of this increased business that the Detroit and Windsor Ferry Company ordered a new passenger and automobile ferry, to be named Cadillac, from the Great Lakes Engineering Works, River Rouge, Michigan. The contract was signed November 5, 1927. The keel was laid December 29,1927; and the Cadillac was launched March 10,1928. The Detroit and Windsor Ferry Company used one of its other steamers to take employees of the company to the shipyard for the launching. The new steamer was christened with a bottle of spring water from a spring at the company's park, Bob-Lo Island. Mrs. William Green, daughter of Capt. Fred J. Simpson, Vice President and General Manager of the Detroit and Windsor Ferry Company acted as sponsor. The Cadillac was delivered to the owner April 19, 1928, and immediately entered service with the other steamers of the company, the LaSalle, Britannia and Pleasure, inaugurating a six minute service for automobiles and passengers between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. Adding the Cadillac makes this a quick convenient, comfortable and pleasant means of transportation across the Detroit River. She is designed for the rapid handling of automobiles and passengers and is practically a duplicate of the steamers, LaSalle, which came out in 1922. Both the Cadillac and the LaSalle were designed by one of the country's oldest and most noted naval architects, Frank E. Kirby. The main deck is of steel and is unobstructed to facilitate the movement of automobiles. All of the passenger decks are floored with United States Rubber tile. There is an observation room forward on the promenade deck which is used as a smoking room for men. There is ample capacity for seventy automobiles and 2500 passengers. In engineering features the Cadillac is entirely orthodox. For propulsion, steam is furnished by two coal burning Scotch boilers to a 3-cylinder vertical compound engine driving a single propeller. The speed of the vessel is fifteen miles per hour. General dimensions are: length overall - 170 feet, 6 inches; length on waterline -155 feet, 8 inches; beam of hull - 56 feet; beam overall - 68 feet, 1 inch; depth molded - 17 feet, 11 inches; draft -13 feet, 3 inches; displacement - 1380 tons; gross registered tonnage - 636; net registered tonnage - 404. The hull is divided into five watertight compartments. The main engine, of vertical compound type with three cylinders, was built by the Great Lakes Engineering Works. The cylinders are 22 x 32 x 32