Definitions for "ticonderoga"
The Ticonderoga is 220-foot steamboat built in Shelburne, Vermont in 1906. It operated as a day boat on Lake Champlain serving ports along the New York and Vermont shores until 1953. In 1955, the ship was moved two miles overland from the lake to Shelburne Museum and restored to its 1923 appearance.
Ticonderoga was a 169 feet steam clipper displacing 1,089 tons, launched in 1849 at Williamsburg, New York. The Ticonderoga was infamous for its "fever ship" voyage in 1852 from Liverpool to Port Phillip carrying 795 passengers. 100 passengers died during the voyage of what was later determined to have typhus. 1872, the Ticonderoga was wrecked off India.
American revolutionary troops captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British in May 1775