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| History | |
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| Name | Chi-Cheemaun |
| Owner | Owen Sound Transportation Company |
| Operator | Owen Sound Transportation Company |
| Port of registry |  Canada, Owen Sound |
| Route | Tobermory, Bruce Peninsula → South Baymouth, Manitoulin Island |
| Builder | Collingwood Shipbuilding, Collingwood, Ontario |
| Cost | CAD$10 million |
| Yard number | 205 |
| Laid down | January 1974 |
| Maiden voyage | September 10, 1974 |
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| Status | Operational |
| General characteristics | |
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| Length | 111 m (364 ft 2 in) |
| Beam | 19 m (62 ft 4 in) |
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| Depth | 6.4 m (21 ft 0 in) |
| Installed power | 9,200 hp (6,900 kW) 8-cylinder Caterpillar V8 diesels |
| Propulsion | 4 × 2,300 hp (1,700 kW) diesel; 1 × 800 hp (600 kW) bow thruster |
| Speed | 16.25 knots (30.10 km/h; 18.70 mph) |
| Capacity | 638 passengers; 140 autos |
MS Chi-Cheemaun is a Canadian passenger and vehicle ferry in Ontario, Canada, which traverses Lake Huron between Tobermory on the Bruce Peninsula and South Baymouth on Manitoulin Island. The ferry connects the two geographically separate portions of Highway 6 and is the vessel that replaced MS Norgoma and SS Norisle in 1974. The ferry service runs seasonally from mid-May to mid-October. As of 2022 she is the third largest passenger vessel sailing the Great Lakes after the expedition cruise liner Viking Octantis and the US ferry SS Badger, although several larger vessels previously serving the Great Lakes are still in service in other parts of the world.
Literally translated, "chi-cheemaun" (in folk orthography or chi-jiimaan in the more standard Fiero double vowel spelling) means "big canoe" in Ojibwe.