40 Ships in Action: Steel Giants of the Great Lakes
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- Here is a look back at some of the highlights of the 2020 Great Lakes shipping season that I recorded during my 22 visits to Duluth that year. A total of 40 different lake carriers are shown here. If you're new to this channel, lake carriers are ships that travel between ports on the Great Lakes carrying a variety of cargoes including iron ore, coal, limestone, salt, grain, and cement.
For this video, I first considered just putting together a compilation of the best ship salutes for 2020. But that would have been missing out on so many of my favorite moments from the season. Instead this compilation is something of a highlight reel, including at least one clip from each lake carrier that I captured on camera... with an emphasis on showing a variety of views in the Duluth, Superior, and Two Harbors area. A few of my favorite ships appear twice, which we'll call editor's privilege! I didn't include any saltwater ships for this video, as I wanted to just focus on lake carriers for now. (I might do a salties compilation in the future.) If your favorite lake carrier is missing, it's mostly like because it did not visit the Duluth area in 2020 or I was unable to capture it on camera during one of my visits.
For each ship, I included information on screen showing the year that the ship went into service, the overall length of the ship, and the cargo carrying capacity in tonnage. I also considered including the top speed of each ship, but realistically they all fall in the 13-16 knots range... so it seemed pointless to keep repeating the same stats over and over again.
I kept each clip for each ship around 1-2 minutes in length, just to keep the overall length of this video somewhat manageable. Despite that, the full video is still 79 minutes long. I realize not everyone will be willing to sit through the entire video. Therefore, if you wish to seek out your favorite ship(s), below are the time stamps for each vessel, along with a link to the original (and longer) video for each ship. Click on the original video link if you wish to know the date and location of each clip. The original video descriptions also contain information about the loads that were being hauled.
0:00 Algoma Guardian • Algoma Guardian - Sunr...
1:35 James R. Barker • James R. Barker - Eart...
3:13 Frontenac • Frontenac - Departing ...
4:52 Hon. James L. Oberstar • Hon. James L. Oberstar...
7:07 Cuyahoga • Cuyahoga - Rare Visito...
9:23 Arthur M. Anderson • Arthur M. Anderson - T...
10:41 Paul R. Tregurtha • Paul R. Tregurtha - Be...
12:35 American Integrity • American Integrity - 1...
14:11 Maumee/Victory • Victory and Maumee - I...
15:31 Pathfinder/Dorothy Ann • Dorothy Ann and Pathfi...
17:08 Stewart J. Cort • Stewart J. Cort - Emer...
18:37 Ashtabula/Defiance • Ashtabula and Defiance...
20:29 Edwin H. Gott • Edwin H. Gott - Summer...
22:10 H. Lee White • H. Lee White - A Light...
23:53 Edgar B. Speer • Edgar B. Speer - The 1...
25:17 American Century • American Century and A...
27:02 John G. Munson • John G. Munson - Doubl...
29:09 Manitoulin • Manitoulin - Red Skies...
30:47 Alpena • Alpena - Blowing Off ...
32:31 Philip R. Clarke • Philip R. Clarke - Sho...
34:20 Saginaw • Saginaw - Two Salutes ...
35:57 Algoma Equinox • Algoma Equinox - The H...
37:14 Herbert C. Jackson • Herbert C. Jackson - S...
39:11 Algoma Enterprise • Algoma Enterprise - Ri...
40:36 Rt. Hon. Paul J. Martin • Rt. Hon. Paul J. Marti...
41:56 Mesabi Miner • Mesabi Miner - Smoke '...
43:26 Walter J. McCarthy Jr. • Walter J. McCarthy Jr....
45:10 John D. Leitch • John D. Leitch - Uncom...
47:11 Joseph L. Block • Joseph L. Block - Arri...
49:15 Presque Isle • Presque Isle - Salute ...
51:20 Michipicoten • Michipicoten - Winter ...
53:21 Burns Harbor • Burns Harbor - Three S...
55:11 American Mariner • American Mariner - A V...
57:14 Lee A. Tregurtha • Lee A. Tregurtha - A W...
59:43 Great Republic • Helen H. and Great Rep...
1:02:03 Erie Trader/Clyde S. VanEnkevort • Erie Trader - An Odd S...
1:03:39 CSL Tadoussac • CSL Tadoussac - A Cana...
1:05:05 Hon. James L. Oberstar • Hon. James L. Oberstar...
1:06:47 John G. Munson • John G. Munson - Spotl...
1:09:02 Michigan Trader/Dirk S. VanEnkevort • Michigan Trader - Fina...
1:11:07 Cason J. Callaway • Cason J. Callaway - Cl...
1:12:56 James R. Barker • James R. Barker - Dist...
1:14:31 Atlantic Huron • Atlantic Huron - Four ...
1:17:02 Arthur M. Anderson • Arthur M. Anderson - F...
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Great to see the Anderson freshly painted and looking proud at 74 years and counting!!!
Currently 69 years old... but you’re just ahead of your time! 🙂
@@1Long2Short Sorry... you are correct... I'm usually good at math!
Don’t worry... in five years, you’re comment will be right on the money!
I was gonna say that didn’t sound right 😂
If there's one ship out there I'd love to see in person, it'd be the Anderson. The history of that vessel being the final vessel the Big Fitz spoke to before disappearing is just so incredible to me. To think she's still sailing after all these years, so cool. I wonder if those folks watching her there even knew just how significant she is to the Great Lakes history.
Watching the Barker coming in to Duluth.
Great video.
Jon, T.C. Mi
I was looking at some of the specs on the Valemax class carriers- holy colossus! The size and capacity of those monstrosities is enormous!
super video, so clear, well cropped, capturing the setting sun effects, etc. And a big plus, no stupid music, just the sounds of the ships. When I was trucking, I did a couple of deliveries to Duluth, beautiful city, I always stayed in a motel up on the hill over looking the lake. Thanks for posting such a great video.
4:53, 4:59 that's Calendar worthy material right there. Beautiful colors.
Fabulous video! Thanks for taking the time to put this together. It's a daunting and time consuming task.
Thanks... it took a lot more time than I expected to go back to the original footage and come up with shorter edits for each ship.
Another amazing compilation of these beautiful vessels coming and going at the Duluth Minnesota shipping port. Thank you❣️❣️❣️❣️
Yay!!! Saw my favorite, Arthur M Anderson!!! Thank you. Thank you.
I included the Anderson. Just because!
This reminds me of the old pletts express DVDs but without the narration. Keep up the amazing work
I've finally been able to see some of their videos recently. They still hold up nicely! Fun to see some familiar ships sporting different names or colors.
FELIX
Cool to see important history still out working on the waterways. Pretty sure the Anderson was the boat talking to the Fitz and sailing not far away from her the night she went down.
Yes, the Anderson was following the Fitzgerald the night she sank.
Barker doesn't mess around with her salutes...
Interlake knows she delights a crowd and they encourage Captain Brad to use it as much as he can. He's originally from a small town that's down bound on the St. Mary's river and when he passes by the shores of it he does more than one salute. They always know it's him and the JRB saying hello.
That barker bark!!!!!
Enjoyed this comprehensive compilation! ⚓ Fantastic footage. So many wonderful vessels. My favorites are American Century, American Mariner & American Integrity, all from my home town company.👌 Also enjoy seeing the tugs 👍
phantastic video of these vessels. i am from Basel Switzerland where also ships cruising the river rhine. almost unbelivebel that ships of 8o years of age still cruise on the great lakes.
just amazing.
Awesome piece. Seeing the Anderson looking so proud was great.
The greatest I have ever seen on TH-cam. Fantastic work. I love the boat horn🙏
Thank you!
Such pretty ships
I got to see the Maumee & Victory in Marquette stop to load up. Very cool!
Thanks for posting.
I like the @ Arthur M. Anderson, that was the freighter that was sailing with the Fitz when she went down. Awesome Ship and story.
This is stunning work. It’s truly an emotional experience you’re sharing and authentic artistry, the way you have edited the entire piece and captured something special with each vessel. I want to jump in the car and head east to these ports! ❤
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
EXCELLENT VIDEO ! It was like I was right there in Duluth !
Muchísimas gracias por toda la información que siempre nos das.
Felicidades,eres un genio y por supuesto felicidades a todo tu equipo.
Thank you for this amazing video!
Awesome ships, nice lakes and great video🤙
I've never seen a barge and tug built like the Presque Isle
Thanks for this beautiful compilation & for all the work you have done to document these vessels. I love studying all the structures & configurations above the hulls. This helped me know some favorites, especially some from he 40s & 50s.
Thanks again!
Thanks! I have a new compilation coming soon… probably on Sunday, if you’re interested. 🙂
Coming in at nite with full moon, very cool, Jon, T.C. Mi
Beautiful stuff! Great job!
Thumbs WAY up!!!
👍👍👍😎
Thanks!
Brilliant VERY INTERESTING
Thanks for EXCELLENT VIDEO! What a fine compilation.
Thank you!
I find these videos very relaxing. Thank you.
Another amazing video from you, here’s hoping for another great batch of vessels in the 2021 season. Already got my list made for what I need to catch, can’t wait to see how your videos turn out
Yeah, I'm putting together my list too... with the ships that I didn't see in 2020 on the top of the list: Kaye E. Barker, American Spirit, Indiana Harbor. The Blough was on that list too, but I'll have to wait a bit longer.
@@1Long2Short you can have the Kaye lol, she was frequent enough in Green Bay to where I don’t think they would mind something else taking up the route for a bit. Chief on my list is the Frontenac, Clarke, and the Oberstar however I’m not about to pass up anything else that appears at a good time
On a good year, we only get the Kaye Barker a couple of times, as she’s almost always loading at Marquette. I don’t think we got her once on 2020. Also high on my list are the Cuyahoga and Saginaw. With the retirement of the Mississagi, my fear is that these two are next... especially the Cuyahoga. But I don’t complain about any classic laker I see. Each one is special.
Paint is cosmetic. These boats are very busy. You can't paint a boat when they are laid up for the winter, too cold. Work-horses! Thanks for the wonderful video. Northern MN here. -20 F. right now, 1 Jan 22.
What a contrats between the Manitoulin and the Alpena. One, eighty years old and in mint condition, the other seven years old and looking like some ones slammed it into a wharf, repeatedly. Great video.
Amazing captures and descriptions and thanks for sharing this. Wish I could see these majestic giants in person just 1 time
Thank you! 🙂
Me too. Amazing ships and environment
1:38 what a fantastic view of this warrior, it shows the true, mind blowing scale. This shot gave me a Barker fix jaja! Great video as always, thank you for the A+ content!
I should be painting my hallway. ......ok ok just 2 more ships then I'll get right to it!
Great video! Loved the Captain's Salutes as well. A lot of the vessel's shown make their way down the Welland Canal during the season. Unfortunately, the 1000 footers can's transit the Canal. I'll have to make my way over to Buffalo or Nanticoke to catch some videos of those.
Likewise, you get ships in the Welland Canal that we don't often see in the Duluth-Superior area. Maybe we can trade places for a few days!
The photography is stunning. Thank you for your hard work.
Thank you!
Wow, really great videos and extremely informative. Thank you.
My favorite is the Alpena. From near there (Presque Isle). She looks like she should be a passenger cruiser. Sleek lines. Good looking boat!
Gorgeous.
Remember seeing a lot of these boats going through Port Colborne just living a couple's blocks away from lock 8 ..
You can definitely tell the older ones with there curves on the hull and cabin's.. just lovely watching them float by ... Great job on the video don't ever take it down this is history at its best🧐
Gorgeous vid.
They all tell a story. Beautiful.
Wish Cleveland ports offered this program
It ’s a very impressive video !!
Wonderful ships
Thanks for not talking or playing stupid looped tunes. Awesome video !!
Ahhhh, I saw this come up in my feed yesterday and was so excited, wanted to wait until today to make sure I had time to watch the whole thing in one go. Beautiful job on capturing everything and then putting it all together for us. Bless you for fading out/editing out the Bridges salutes after the ships so I can crank up my volume. Especially love Frontenac, the Cort (of course), H Lee White's shimmer and the unloading clips!
Thanks! I figured nobody needed to hear nearly 40 salutes from the bridge in one video! I did leave in 3-4 bridge salutes scattered throughout, since I knew some people would want to hear them.
@@1Long2Short You're right! In my opinion, at least. The bridge, while I've certainly nothing against it, is a bit jarring as compared to some of the regular Lakers horns.
The tourists love the loud racket the bridge makes. But once you’ve heard it a few hundred times, the novelty wears off a bit. 🙂
Not much knowledge of ships buy absolutely loved this video
I miss the steam ships passing at night on the St Mary's river in Soo Locks campground. You could feel them chugging past.
It's kinda cool to think that some of these ships are made from iron that came from two harbors, duluth or thunder bay. It's also a little ironic too. Great video!
Yeah, when you think about it, ships from the 1920s probably hauled the iron to build the ships from the 1950s. And the ships from the 1950s probably hauled the iron to build the ships from the 1970s and 1980s.
@@1Long2Short 3 generations and soon to be a fourth (Mark W. Barker)
Yes indeed! We also have the newly built Michigan Trader too, which had her maiden voyage last November. Nice to see some newly-built American ships!
@@1Long2Short I agree! 🇺🇸
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HOPING and PRAYING for 2021 better health wise!!!
Wow, this is really cool.
great!
Fantastic video, great camera work! Watched the whole thing :-)
Thank you!
I lived in the soo for a long time. All of Algomas ships look like they haven't been painted in 25 years.
Nicely done
very nice and beautiful
Excellent movie
great video
Muito lindo esse vídeo com essas máquinas maravilhosas👍👍👍
I must say Im excited to see the Armco return
Ótimo o vídeo. Lembra as eclusas do Canal de Panamá. Abraço desde Porto Alegre, Brasil.
excelente video !!!!!!!
Can some please explain the purpose of those barges as opposed to a complete ship under its own power?The Great Lakes seems to be treacherous at times and it seems to be a mad idea to have a barge that size and a tug pushing it along at low speeds? (Well it seemed that way). Cheers, great video!
Thanks! The main advantage of this tug-barge combos is they can operate with smaller crews, about 15-20 instead of 25-30. They run at about the same speed as the traditional ships. If the weather gets rough, they seek shelter.
I can't believe how old these ships are. If they were in salt water they probably would be in a scrap yard.
If they were in land in Ontario they would be in a ship yard in a year
Amazing to me that with the boom extended over the pile that the boat doesn’t foll over until the boom hits the pile
The boom must be pretty light compared to the weight of the ship. Even with the boom fully extended to the side, I’ve never noticed any list to these ships.
God bless the seamen of the great lakeside
Nice
Great.
Algoma Guardian looks like it has seen better days.
Amazing video! Love those ships shown in the sunset. What camera did you use for sunset clips?
Thanks! I used both a Canon t5i and a Nikon D7500. Nothing special!
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This is greaat ) - . 11:17
The Anderson, every time I see her I get a tinge of sadness knowing she sailed with one of the last ships to be lost in a November gale The mighty Fitz.
Wowwwww,where have he been
Man, this was relaxing, interesting, and absolutely the kind of thing my family would watch. I loved it! I think the Munson's horn needs some work though 1:07:16
Thank you! A new compilation for the 2021 season will be uploaded tomorrow, if you’re up for watching another. 🙂
@@1Long2Short Oh absolutely! I watched this one over the course of about 36 hours, and loved it. During the first half of my dad's Coast Guard career, he was on the _Neah Bay_ and worked in this very area. I sent him this video, and one of the things he said was "As for the ships, I'm acquainted with almost all of them, worked many in the ice, and even rode _Edgar B. Speer."_ There's a picture in the dining room of the _Neah Bay_ that he took from _Speer's_ wheelhouse. He loved Duluth and working on the lakes.
jaws
Awesome video! Should say movie documentary. Watched on my big TV. Really enjoyed it!
enjoyed the video thank you for taking the time ...did i see the sister ship to the Fitzgerald
Thanks! The Fitzgerald's sister ship (Arthur B. Homer) was scrapped in the 1980s. But there are some ships here that have a similar style to the Fitzgerald.
What are the drafts of lake boats typically ? I mean they aren't drafted as deep as their full sea counterparts for the general layout ?
Around 28 feet
This might be a dumb question. Here goes. Does anyone else think if all these huge ships would be lifted out of lake superior do you think the water level would drop a noticable amount. By noticable I mean like probably less then a 1/2 inch or so
tranquil water
Is it Spring yet?!
Good morning waching from canada.
Good morning!
Hi- My wife and I are looking for the best place to view lakers and salties. Can you make a few recommendations? We are also RVers, so if you know of any campgrounds where we could watch the shipping traffic right from our site, that would be awesome! Great video! I really enjoyed seeing a lot of the lakers that I used to see on the Little Calumet River with my Dad back in the 1970's!
The three best places to watch lakers are from Canal Park in Duluth, Sault Ste. Marie, and Port Huron (or anywhere along the St. Clair River). In Sault Ste. Marie there is the Aune Osborn campground, which is along the water... you should see lots of ships from there. There is also the Algonac State Park along the St. Clair River, south of St. Clair, Michigan, which should allow you to see several lakers in any given day. Unfortunately, there's nothing in the Duluth area that has camping right next to where the lakers pass, but it's the best place to go to physically stand close to lakers in motion. Most of the footage from this video was shot there.
@@1Long2Short this is great info. That ks very much for taking the time to respond! All the best!
So I have a question: on some of the nighttime transits, the superstructures get randomly lit up brightly, almost like a bunch of passageway lighting got turned on, but then gets turned off a second later. What is that about? It's not erratic enough to be just random flickering, but I can't figure out the purpose of it.
The inner lighthouse on the south pier flashes at a regular interval, which lights up the superstructure of some ships.
@@1Long2Short Ahhh, that makes sense. Thank you!
I’ve been at sea most of my life I would like to do a season on the Great Lakes to see the difference between ocean work and lake.
The Great Lakes are no joke, they can be very deadly.
@@jstoli996c4s I’ve been at sea over 50 years over 40 as master I know how weather works over a water mass better than most.
@@purtlemoirrey1161 so did the captain of the Edmund Fitzgerald, just sayin’. Always gotta be on your toes.
@@jstoli996c4s and you point is?????????????? I made a statement I’m a Master Mariner I said I’d like season on the lakes!!!!! Don’t tell granma how to blow eggs I don’t want a weather forecast i get them every 15 minutes at sea
@@purtlemoirrey1161 wow lol I merely made a comment that the Great Lakes are dangerous and to exercise caution, and for some reason you’re taking personal offense to it. Good luck sir ✌️
What ever happened to the Roger Blough my brother in law helped build it at the Lorain shipyard?
The Blough was active up until July 2020, when she went into layup due to the economy. She was set to sail again this spring, but caught fire over the winter, resulting in $20 million in damages. If they decide to repair her, it could be another year or more before she's back in service.
At the 45:05 Mark:
A bicycle hanging 👍.
Love the avatar. I’m also a Big Star fan. Traveled to Memphis a few years back and toured Ardent studios and met Jody Stephens.
What salute did the leitch do?
Imponentes
Algoma Guardian looks so sad.
Love all of your videos, but I wish you had date stamps on this one!
I thought about adding dates to each clip, but it would have been too much work to go back and add them... due to the way I edited the footage. Next time I will add them!
@@1Long2Short I get it. You're still da man! Thanks for all the great vids.
Who else thinks that the next great lakes ship to sink will be an Algoma owned ship. They don,t maintain these ships worth shit. Half of them look like they have already sunk,raised and put back in operation.
Looks like the Algoma Guardian could use a fresh paint job
How many crew are required to man one of those carriers?
About 25, give or take.
How would it feel if the residents there heard that loud foghorn outside the early morning window?
It would feel wonderful! 🙂
@@1Long2Short Please recommend the name of the hotel with a good view of the cargo ship with the loud sound of the foghorn .
What ships does Cleveland have
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