The Devastating Great Lakes Storm of 1940

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  • @BigOldBoats
    @BigOldBoats  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    Browse better with Opera opr.as/Opera-browser-bigoldboats
    Thank you so much for watching! What other stories would you like to see on the channel?

    • @TheBullethead
      @TheBullethead 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Makes you wonder how the European colonization of the Americas, or the Polynesians colonization of the Pacific, every happened given those folks had even less weather forecasts. AND THEN there are the Great Lakes.

    • @markstott6689
      @markstott6689 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I'm still waiting for the video that you promised me on storms and wrecks on Lake Ontario. It must have been six months since I mentioned that Lake Ontario never gets talked about. Well, unless it's about Lake effect snowfall shutting Buffalo down. That's about the only time it makes UK news. Especially if the Bills can't play. 😊❤😊

    • @jamesswapinski9190
      @jamesswapinski9190 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BigOldBoats How about one on Chicora,1895 Lake Michigan wreck. . definitely one of the Great Lakes most enduring mysteries.

    • @twalatka
      @twalatka 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I grew up hearing that from my Navy Dad. I still abide by this.

    • @krimke881
      @krimke881 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      please open for saving the video to favorites.

  • @carlmontney7916
    @carlmontney7916 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +304

    Those who've never lived along the Great lakes have no idea how severe the storms can be. Very brave sailors serve on ships that sail the lakes.

    • @TheSaneHatter
      @TheSaneHatter 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      I was living well inland, in the outer suburbs of Detroit, almost 40 yers ago, and the stormy weather was STILL upsetting!!!

    • @ANYHOO0
      @ANYHOO0 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Very true, they might as well be oceans in some ways.

    • @hollieBlu303
      @hollieBlu303 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      I live in the UK, East Anglia. Cannot IMAGINE how hectic your weather systems.are...we get 70-90mph gales here, and the North Sea is nothing to be sniffed at, but I'm well inland. A tornado or a November Witch sounds beyond terrifying. No idea how you know that's coming and deal with it.

    • @scottkoch5896
      @scottkoch5896 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@ANYHOO0they’re worse than the ocean in a lot of ways. Look into the lake effect.

    • @famousutopias
      @famousutopias 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      So true! I’m in Cleveland ≈ a mile from Lake Erie shore. Erie is so shallow on average it can go from glass to raging in minutes. There’s a somewhat iconic photo of the lighthouse encased in ice from the incredibly high waves freezing on contact. I was stupidly determined to get home that night and was on the I90 Rt2 Shoreway unable to see much of anything with water from breaking waves landing on top of the car! I’ve driven ghat route in pretty heavy weather but that was new to me. I fully expected it to start raining fish! I made it home, following the distant orange lights of a plow truck ahead of me. The lighthouse photo went viral at the time which was when I realized how bad it was.

  • @Dulcimertunes
    @Dulcimertunes 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +166

    Lifelong Midwest resident here. If the November weather stays warm, it’s ok. If it TURNS warm-watch out!

    • @forrestunderwood3174
      @forrestunderwood3174 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      November is always warm up here these days.

    • @alisonflaxman1566
      @alisonflaxman1566 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@@forrestunderwood3174no it isn't.

    • @SovereignStatesman
      @SovereignStatesman 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      When the gales of November come early!

    • @jmdcomplexity1034
      @jmdcomplexity1034 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@forrestunderwood3174ive hunted on opening day for rifle season in 0 degree weather in Michigan. That was only a couple years ago. Lately its been a little warmer in November, but I do believe a brutal winter is coming. Maybe not this year, but soon.

    • @AngelHassan-k5d
      @AngelHassan-k5d 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@jmdcomplexity1034 ‘Winter is coming ‘

  • @Steven-em5if
    @Steven-em5if 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +93

    As a lifelong yooper the great lakes have always been a part of my life. When I watch videos like this I think of my best friend. He was a commercial fisherman and lost his life on Lake Michigan in a bad November storm.😞 Rest in peace Cliff.

    • @charliekezza
      @charliekezza 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      My best friend lost her father at sea and her brother survived the sinking. I don't know why but I can't stop watching these kind of videos. Rip Mr Timpson you are still missed and will always be a father figure to me.

    • @kimfleury
      @kimfleury 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      May Cliff and Mr. Timpson rest in the peace they so longed for.

    • @CherryPrana
      @CherryPrana 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Rest in peace.

  • @robertwerner2085
    @robertwerner2085 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +116

    As a teenager growing up in Pentwater MI in the 1990s I had the opportunity to meet Lloyd Belcher, a helmsman on the Novadoc at the time of her sinking (can't remember if he was at the helm when she grounded.). He was visiting from Canada to give a presentation about the events he experienced, and later he and his family went out on my father's boat and we took them to the wreck site. All those decades later and he still remembered where the remains of the ship were. On a calm day you can still see what is left of the wreck buried in the sand off Juniper Beach near the Silver Lake sand dunes.

    • @jamesmccarthy5086
      @jamesmccarthy5086 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I think he was at the wheel when she ran aground.

    • @gayprepperz6862
      @gayprepperz6862 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Fascinating. I wish I was there.

    • @kurules3072
      @kurules3072 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sounds like you made this up

    • @Teverell
      @Teverell 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Looking at Google Earth, if she's located at 43º41'49" N, 86º30'56" W... she's visible on Google Earth even today.
      Sailors are a whole different breed, they go through hell - especially back in the day.

  • @skycaptain3344
    @skycaptain3344 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +110

    I love your Great Lakes content. I recently visited the region again touring Manitowoc’s excellent Maritime Museum and did a crossing on the SS Badger. So much history in those lakes. Our crossing of Lake Michigan was glassy smooth - heard a daughter ask her father why there weren’t waves - he told her “because this isn’t an ocean.” He has no idea…

    • @TheScottbb1
      @TheScottbb1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Yeah even the ocean ocean can be waveless when it’s really calm.

    • @famousutopias
      @famousutopias 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Great story. It’s been 11 or 12 years since I took the Badger from Manitowoc to Ludington and that day was after a huge severe storm system went through the day and evening before. There were definitely waves! It was impossible to walk a straight line, and holding on to things was a big help. We’d tip one way and you could look into the churning water from the side windows and then the horizon when it tipped the other way. I gave the young man at the cafeteria a big tip since there weren’t many people eating anything that day!
      Despite feeling a little woozy at times, I really enjoyed the experience. I wholeheartedly recommend a crossing on the Badger!

    • @CodyHomes
      @CodyHomes 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      According to my Native American Relatives, some of them still consider the great lakes seas that used to be a single ocean.

    • @ALCO-C855-fan
      @ALCO-C855-fan 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@CodyHomesI also consider them one ocean as together.

    • @FryingTiger
      @FryingTiger หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Zero mph wind. Quite rare on the big lake.

  • @scooterc6412
    @scooterc6412 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    Thank you for another Great Lakes story! This time you mentioned Ludington, MI, which is my home town and 2 ships the car ferries Pere Marquette 21 and The City of Flint, both of which I would later sail many times as a passenger. My father was an able seaman for the C&O railroad car ferries in the 1960’s. When I was born, there were 7 ships in the C&O fleet, including SS Badger, that still sails today from Ludington to Manitowoc, WI. She’s the last coal fired steam powered ship in North America. My father could get us free passage whenever we wanted and I cherish those memories as a young lad absolutely mesmerized by ships and sailing the Great Lakes! Thank you for giving an old man passage once again on a trip down memory lane! Oh, and the Galloping Gerdy into was excellent! I never realized it was the same storm that took down the Tacoma Narrows Bridge that later became the Armistice Day storm! Fascinating! You really have a gift for historical accuracy and narration! I can’t wait for your next video! As always, great work!

    • @Happydays14385
      @Happydays14385 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I love Ludington! Went salmon fishing the last year

    • @christinagowan8116
      @christinagowan8116 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      My Grandma used to own some land by Manistee and we'd go to Ludington alot, I really miss it up there.

  • @geralddrake3002
    @geralddrake3002 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    My grandmother's cousin was on the Davock, and she would talk about how she could still hear her aunt's cry's of grief when she got the news that her son had gone down with the ship, it was something that her aunt never really recovered from.

  • @Ohiotrucker1
    @Ohiotrucker1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +468

    Moral of the story. "Red sky at night sailors delight, Red sky in the morning sailors warning.

    • @lukeeade6226
      @lukeeade6226 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      Matthew 16:2 is where it comes from

    • @abnurtharn2927
      @abnurtharn2927 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Still valid.

    • @ssokolow
      @ssokolow 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @@abnurtharn2927 Depends on where in the world you are. It only holds true in certain regions.

    • @bestboy138
      @bestboy138 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Red sky at noon, full moon.

    • @arthurwoodend7760
      @arthurwoodend7760 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I would imagine that they knew that.

  • @happyhighway106
    @happyhighway106 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    #180 I have crewed aboard the SS Pere Marquette 21 and wheeled the ship on occasions, also. I am 76 now and thank you for the history. We used full gear to tie down the rail cars. Clamps, Jaxs, Turnbuckles, chains, etc. Those of us that worked the deck, developed some pretty good muscles. No need to work out at the gym.

  • @kittybitts567
    @kittybitts567 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    I stop everything if I can for a Big Old Boats videos. God bless the souls of those lost to the storms that rock the Great Lakes.

  • @dukecity7688
    @dukecity7688 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    I find myself humming "the wreck of the edm Fitzgerald" a lot. I think about these ships and the men who sailed on them. This was a well told story. I appreciated it.

    • @SovereignStatesman
      @SovereignStatesman 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The Great Lakes are a famous place for Wreck diving by scuba explorers. That tells you something!

  • @abnurtharn2927
    @abnurtharn2927 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

    My father used to say that the sea is a beautiful lover, but a cruel mistress. I guess that goes for the Great Lakes also.

    • @jacobrothschild42936
      @jacobrothschild42936 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      What an appropriate saying. The greatest and the worst day of my life were both on lake michigan.

    • @abnurtharn2927
      @abnurtharn2927 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jacobrothschild42936 ❤

    • @SovereignStatesman
      @SovereignStatesman 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Is even worse in the Great Lakes, because you don’t know what’s coming.

  • @Travis25601
    @Travis25601 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    I’m glad this channel is doing well. I wish him lots and lots of luck. This is a brilliant niche and the videos seem to have the ambience of mystery. I like this.

    • @tundrawomansays694
      @tundrawomansays694 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Me too. The quality is consistently excellent.

    • @ANYHOO0
      @ANYHOO0 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Plus, there are big old boats!

  • @MrGoesBoom
    @MrGoesBoom 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    Really love the coverage you give to the Great Lakes and surrounding regions. As someone not even remotely close to them it's hard to remember just how large an area they really cover and the sheer amount of traffic that takes place there

    • @MarianneKat
      @MarianneKat 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      They are very underrated! Love my Michigan great lakes❤❤❤❤

  • @greenthing99100
    @greenthing99100 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Thanks for the connection with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge failure which I had not realised was the same storm as sunk these Great Lakes freighters. As always well researched and interesting.

  • @20thCenturyManTrad
    @20thCenturyManTrad 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Glad you cover the Great Lakes area, as someone who calls the area my home, it helps me jog my memory of the less famous events.

  • @mikeadams2351
    @mikeadams2351 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    being born and raised in Seattle I knew all about the storm and Gallopping Gurdy, but I never knew the storm caused further damage. thanks for the information.

  • @jez6208
    @jez6208 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    I love your work mate. Totally facinating! I'm a Brit but I lived in St Joseph Michigan for a couple of years in the late 80's. Then in Chicago for 6 months in the mid 90's. I loved the lake. The Michigan winters were something else! Bloody brutal sometimes. I love ships and the ocean but there's something so very compelling about the great lakes. I could never really get my head around the fact that such huge bodies of water were fresh. Your production and research is outstanding! Cheers mate. 😊

    • @jonawesolowski-thecommunit9968
      @jonawesolowski-thecommunit9968 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I'm a lifelong Ohioan, from way down in the SW corner. When we've gone up north near Kelly's Island on the shore, we call Lake Erie Ohio's Ocean.

  • @jackr2287
    @jackr2287 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    I had visited the Marquette marintime museum, and one of their great focuses was on one hand, the wrecks... but also the precursors to the Coast Guard rescue crews. Phenomenally dangerous, that job. And yet some of those rescue crews went out into stormy and icy conditions just this bad, or more, to save their merchant mariners who found themselves in trouble. Gotta respect them, for their enviable courage and strength.

    • @robbiet8583
      @robbiet8583 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes! I too have the highest regard for these sailors!

  • @flyingtigerline
    @flyingtigerline หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The writing of your videos is excellent.

  • @albertgreene313
    @albertgreene313 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    This has to be one of the most metal TH-cam channel ever

  • @hughjass1044
    @hughjass1044 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I've always been fascinated by stories of The Great Lakes because even though I've never been a sailor nor been out on a ship on those lakes, I've travelled the highways around all of them hundreds of times as a trucker and boy, I'll tell ya; I know well how fast and how furiously the weather can change in that region and if it frightened me on land, I cannot begin to imagine what it must have been like out on those lakes.
    I've heard different accounts of sailors who've sailed both the North Atlantic and the lakes and they said the storms on the lakes frightened them more.

  • @Kimberlaina
    @Kimberlaina 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    My grandfather grew up in Ludington, and I'm a volunteer for the Sable Points Lighthouse Keepers Association, which preserves the lighthouses mentioned in this video. The Ludington Coast Guard station is now an excellent maritime museum with exhibits about this storm. Both lighthouses mentioned are open to the public, as well as the Ludington North Breakwater. Ludington is well worth a visit if you're interested in Great Lakes history.

    • @matthewhowe3727
      @matthewhowe3727 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Very beautiful area. Moved to Traverse City from Owosso in 1976. The Great Lakes are not to be taken lightly.

  • @kallanstedje5133
    @kallanstedje5133 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    To those who've never witnessed a sunrise at Duluth Minnesota; they are more beautiful than you can imagine...
    Woe to those too arrogant to fathom the full fury of the Lakes..

  • @hollieBlu303
    @hollieBlu303 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This man is a KING! Thank you for all your work on getting the human side of these stories. You are a legend, and sir, i salute you x

  • @jamesswapinski9190
    @jamesswapinski9190 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Seeing what remains of the Minch..and viewing the forlorn almost toy-looking inverted hull of the Davock.I am in awe.. These boats were giants of their day.and they were as nothing before the power of that storm.

  • @guyk768
    @guyk768 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    This is very sad, but interesting about the history of the Great Lakes storm of 1940. Thank you for the video Big Old Boats.

  • @michaelsinger4638
    @michaelsinger4638 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    “Dominated by a fleet of aging freighters.”
    Well that doesn’t sound ominous at all.

  • @JaneGreen-u4r
    @JaneGreen-u4r 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Thank you for the riveting story so well told. I like the way you included the duck hunters, showing how massive the storm was. Great channel! Hope you prosper.

  • @sadiedavenport
    @sadiedavenport 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It’s clear how much love and care you put into these videos. And you're a wonderful storyteller!

  • @johnschlaefflin2100
    @johnschlaefflin2100 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Thank you for this. I believe my Grandfather Lee Kipp survived on the Novadoc. They ate minced meat, and burned whatever they could to survive.

  • @roselightinstorms727
    @roselightinstorms727 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Rest in peace.❤ When you see sky that way dont leave the dock. Get inside and get warm!

  • @Xavier-jh8qy
    @Xavier-jh8qy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Dear Sir, you are getting extremely good at this! No channel thrills us more than yours when a new video comes out. What makes your story telling so successful in my opinion is, in no small part, your low key voice with no high pitched sounds. That's got a very soothing effect to it. So unlike other channels that try and fail, your videos we can listen to as we're laying in bed, drifting off into sleep as you draw our imagination on a voyage into fascinating stories of old. Thank you...

    • @rebeccahylant7695
      @rebeccahylant7695 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Living in New Mexico but loved our visit to Lake Michigan. That water was so cold even in late June!

  • @BigBennKlingon
    @BigBennKlingon 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I live in a Great Lake coastal city (one often mentioned in these vids). Im just a short walk from the shoreline. Since I started watching this channel (and a few others like it) Ive taken notice of some of the dramatic wind events around here. For example a couple times a year a sudden violent wind will shake my house for 5 minutes and then be totally gone. And other stuff like that. I always wonder 'is this one those things that would sink ships a century or so ago?' It's probably just my imagination getting carried away. But nonetheless this channel has helped me appreciated the spookier aspects of Great Lake life.

  • @Straswa
    @Straswa 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great work Big Old Boats. RIP to all the poor souls lost in the Storm.

  • @pedalpower57
    @pedalpower57 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    red sky at night - sailors delight , red sky in morning - sailors take warning

  • @mjc11a
    @mjc11a 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Excellent presentation! I grew up just inland of the Lake Michigan shoreline, and while this storm was before my time, those of us who were fortunate enough to grow up in the Great Lakes region are familiar with 'the witch of November.' By the time this storm ended, it had claimed the lives of 150 people, 58 of whom were mariners. The blizzard associated with the storm dumped over a foot of new snow, which was covered by a thick layer of ice, and produced 20-foot snow drifts. Thanks again for the excellent presentation, and stay safe🙏

  • @ehrenknappe8268
    @ehrenknappe8268 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Ah, the Witch of November. I am a lifelong sailor, but thankfully have never been on the lakes during those times. I have been in Duluth and the north shore of Superior during some very nasty storms, and I can't imagine what any men caught out on the waters would be feeling. They looked terrifying enough from the shoreline.

  • @boydwalker161
    @boydwalker161 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My mom was 8 years old living with her mom and sisters in a one room apartment in a little bungalow besides a house. This was in the little town of Grand Meadow in S.E. Minnesota. The wind was so fierce that my moms mother was using a table knife to shove cloth into the gaps in the walls and door. As soon as she plugged one the intense wind blew another one out of the gap. Many hunters died trying to get back onto shore or once back on shore didn’t make it to their vehicle.

  • @footballlvnlady
    @footballlvnlady 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Living on the bay of Green Bay/Lake Michigan all my life she can be beautiful and calm. When she gets riled up she turns into a wild beast! November is the worst month! Just took my grandkids to a beach last week. It was calm, sunny and very warm out. Watching people of all ages in the water swimming, boating and jet skiing. Perfect summer day. But when November comes watch out!

  • @sarahhernandez7326
    @sarahhernandez7326 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Red sky at night, sailors delight. Red sky at morning. SAILORS. TAKE. WARNING! Every single one of these sailors failed to pay heed to the most basic sailing warning in history.

    • @tobsixi6702
      @tobsixi6702 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      May be better for you to just delete that disrespectful comment of yours 😅

    • @robertjacob6674
      @robertjacob6674 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@tobsixi6702sailors very rarely had a choice either you come do this work or not have a job beyond that the owners wanted their money

    • @tobsixi6702
      @tobsixi6702 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@robertjacob6674 thats exactly my point, which is why I think that the comment above is absolutely ridiculous... none of the sailors were responsible for what happened that day, its all on the ship owners who pushed their captains to sail through ice and storms with subpar equipment and safety measures

  • @plokoon1912
    @plokoon1912 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Everyday Big Old Boats uploads a video is a good day.
    I really have to thank you, because of mainly you I know so much about the great lakes freighters and I am so glad of it. You definitely stand up there together with Part Time Explorer and Oceanliner Designs as my favorite maritime TH-camrs.
    Take care and may God be with you on your journy!

  • @elainewhite3632
    @elainewhite3632 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    My Mom was just about engaged to a sailor on the ships in the Great Lakes in 1940, who unfortunately was drowned. They were from Newfoundland. As time passed, my Mom moved to Nova Scotia and was married there in 1946 and had my brother and me. Eventually I moved to the US and now have my precious family here. I shutter to think that that might never have come to pass. Of course, I'm sorry for the loss of the sailors like then and I knew some of his family in NL. But how everything is in God's hands and He brings to pass what He planned for us before we were born.

  • @FloozieOne
    @FloozieOne 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I "dscovered" your channel two days ago and have been binge-watching your videos ever since. I don't know how you managed to find so much in the way or original footage and stills; it must have been a lot of work, but I'm glad you did. I intend to keep watching and have subscribed. btw, I grew up in a sailing family and the pictures of the beautiful dawn reminded me of a saying my father taught us. Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.

  • @jenniferlevine5406
    @jenniferlevine5406 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Terrifying, what a story! This is another storm I haven't heard of before. You do such a great job on your channel! Thank you so much for telling stories such as this one. I think this is a great memorial to those working men who where just there, trying to make a living and take care of their families. Great work!

  • @549RR
    @549RR 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    As always, wonderfully narrated & illustrated with a wealth of historic photos. Thank you, BOB

  • @joshjohnson2844
    @joshjohnson2844 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I wish I had come across this post ten years ago when I could have asked my Grandmothers (who would have been 16 and 18 respectively in 1940) . They were in the area and would have had stories. They rarely told stories unprompted, but if I brought up an even or dates, I was in for a treasure.

  • @AcaliahWolfsong
    @AcaliahWolfsong 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Perfect way to start a Sunday!!❤

  • @michaelfrench3396
    @michaelfrench3396 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    It doesn't matter if you're a sailor a seaman fisherman. Whatever, none of us are guaranteed tomorrow, so live today like you're not.

    • @gayprepperz6862
      @gayprepperz6862 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      So true, even if you're not bound to the sea!

    • @Biggestfoot10209
      @Biggestfoot10209 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Absolutely, no one is guaranteed tomorrow. If you haven’t already, find Christ.

  • @jacobrothschild42936
    @jacobrothschild42936 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    About a year ago we sailed across lake michigan to ludington and went to the museum near the lighthouse. There we learned about this storm and the events of that day. After we had crossed back to port washington, the next day we got caught in following seas with ~14 foot waves just tossing our 40 foot sailboat like a floating bottle. Being out on the lake that day was the most terriying experience of my entire life, it took 3 hours of nerve racking focus to make it to milwaukee to hole up for the night. I cant imagine being out there in waves twice the height overnight. This video made me relive all of those feelings of dread and angst that I had on that day. Never underestimate the tempest that lake michigan can so quickly become.

    • @mrbrooks9969
      @mrbrooks9969 หลายเดือนก่อน

      thank you for this story

  • @daleslover2771
    @daleslover2771 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Amazing this happen, as Duck season open in Wisconsin, When that hit hundreds of Duck hunters were fighting for their lives, incredible story..

  • @Alphaskeptic
    @Alphaskeptic 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    In 1940 there were two categories of ships in Canada's great lakes fleet. "Canallers" were short enough to pass through the seaway. Many of them were lost to submarines, while doing convoy duty to Great Britain. "Upper Lakers" were restricted to service on the upper great lakes due to their length. Ironically, at the time of this disaster, jobs on these ships were coveted and carefully guarded by some to avoid the dangers of the North Atlantic. I was told about this by one of my shipmates who had done convoy duty while I was working on lakers in the 1970's. The Novadoc was the only canaller of the three ships that sank.

  • @mattn9886
    @mattn9886 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was born in Port Huron and moved when I was 7 to Ann Arbor. I remember hearing stories about great lakes shipwrecks even being that young. People who don’t live along the coasts of Michigan don’t realize how quickly the weather can change and how dangerous and destructive the lakes can be. 45 years later to now and I really enjoy your videos about the lakes.

  • @Hobotraveler82
    @Hobotraveler82 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My grandparents were Salvation Army officers stationed in Michigan for 9 years. So me and my sister got to spend plenty of winters and summers there. 😊

  • @54321-p
    @54321-p 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Interesting to see "Galloping Gerdie" at the beginning of this vid. Grew up near there.

  • @gayprepperz6862
    @gayprepperz6862 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is one of your greatest works yet. I don't know how much time and effort it takes to produce the kind of quality presentations that you do, but you the quality of your finished product ALWAYS speaks for itself. Thank you!

  • @richardjohnson2965
    @richardjohnson2965 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    My dad just started sailing the Great Lakes that year….sailing out of Duluth.

  • @DanielDavis1973
    @DanielDavis1973 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Armistice day evolved into Veteran's day in the US. It's still a federal holiday.

  • @phillipgarrow2297
    @phillipgarrow2297 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Being from Michigan myself we get lake effect weather and it can go from good to bad fast

  • @stevengill1736
    @stevengill1736 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Well, they had their "red sky in morning. " hint, but no one took warning I guess.....we are blessed today with weather forecasts that are incredibly accurate compared to those days....

  • @johnnybanks5321
    @johnnybanks5321 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    "The Lake it is said , never gives up her dead when the winds of November come early."___Gordon Lightfoot

    • @Lisa1111
      @Lisa1111 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Best song ❤

  • @InlandSeas
    @InlandSeas 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My hometown was pretty well impacted by the sinking of the Davock. Five of the crew were from Ashtabula.

  • @ryanwitheridge1919
    @ryanwitheridge1919 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Iv lived on Georgian bay my whole life. My grand father told me one storm in the fall the light house keeper was in tombed in his lighthouse the spray created ice 2 feet thick around the entire lighthouse took coast guard 2 days to get to him and chip him out... Was the western islands on Georgian bay

  • @k9spike235
    @k9spike235 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My good Sir,
    You are the Steven Spielberg of TH-cam creators . Always a delight to listen to and watch.

    • @BigOldBoats
      @BigOldBoats  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you!

  • @craytum6945
    @craytum6945 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Excellent post. Great historical information. I've chartered out many times salmon fishing on lakes Michigan and Ontario. They are no joke and will kill if provided with the correct conditions. Thank you.

  • @chesspiece81
    @chesspiece81 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Good Sunday morning, Big Ass Boats. I hope you get to feeling better from your summer illness.

  • @snafubar5491
    @snafubar5491 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Red sky in the Morning; Sailor take Warning.
    Red Sky at Night; Sailors Delight.
    Old Seamans saying.

  • @SamBroadway
    @SamBroadway 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    These historical events are fascinating. Thanks for bringing them back to life

  • @rottenroads1982
    @rottenroads1982 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    All I have got to say is that all these Videos on the Great Lakes are what I come to your channel for. The History, as well as the Vessel Designs are all very fascinating.
    Anyways, I have comments on the Daniel J. Morrell Video and the Lake Huron Disasters Video. Both of which I ask about a peace of music.
    Note that not all of us use Epidemic Sound, and don’t want to start a Subscription for it.

  • @beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756
    @beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I live on lake Erie, when the November gails come theres no time to make plans to run into safe harbor. Imagine not having the technology we have now and the company expecting to get those last runs done. It must have been the worst time to work on the freighters.

  • @paulhooker516
    @paulhooker516 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I've lived in Michigan my entire life and I must say the storms are crazy. I've seen lake superior in a November gale. Quite impressive!!And frightening.

  • @josephelden4573
    @josephelden4573 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks!

    • @BigOldBoats
      @BigOldBoats  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you!

  • @Spencer481
    @Spencer481 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I really like how you interlaced the introduction to each ship with the vignettes of the devastation from the storm as it moved in on the Great Lakes. It created a series feeling of foreboding.

  • @librarianlaura3697
    @librarianlaura3697 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I am on the board of a small town historical society. I am very curious about what you said at that 10 minute mark. You said the Calumet river reversed course. Did the Fox River also reverse course? We have a photo of what appears to be the Fox River running in the opposite direction and would love to solve this mystery!

  • @KingPabs
    @KingPabs 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great work

  • @mariekatherine5238
    @mariekatherine5238 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My friend’s mother-in-law lived through that storm.

  • @OrbitFallenAngel
    @OrbitFallenAngel 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I really love listening and watching your videos!!
    You have thee perfect voice to narrate them!!
    The other night I binge watched 14 of your videos!!
    Literally I learned so much!!
    I really appreciate you creating such amazing videos!!
    I have never heard of this storm before!!
    I always learn something new when I watch your videos!!
    Thank you so much for creating them!!
    I know that I said that twice but I mean it!!

  • @brobabroski5083
    @brobabroski5083 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The Armistice Day storm almost killed future Minnesota Vikings head coach Bud Grant. He too was duck hunting.

    • @stephenstoffer7296
      @stephenstoffer7296 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, the tragic story of the duck hunters on the Mississippi. 😢

  • @randyhebbebusche3644
    @randyhebbebusche3644 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So tragic. Can never take anything for granted. You do a fantastic job. Thank you.

  • @Paui-yb2cp
    @Paui-yb2cp 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    More often than not, unusually warm arm in then replaced by unusually cold air, rather abruptly.

  • @budm9982
    @budm9982 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellently presented story of this storm and the lives lost. The film footage, photographs and narration accompanying it were great.

  • @randomlyentertaining8287
    @randomlyentertaining8287 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The scariest and most heartbreaking sinkings are those where nothing could be done. No design defects, no human error. The waves and wind were just too much.

  • @sydney.g.sloangammagee8181
    @sydney.g.sloangammagee8181 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have watched many of your videos by now - all on the Great Lakes.
    I have learned everything that I had no idea about - other than Edmund Fitzgerald, I knew nothing.
    What a fascinating & crucial part of our history, heartwrenching but glorious!!! Movies based on times from the past, would give hints about life on the Great Lakes being much more active & popular than it seems to be today - now I know why . . . this nation didn't operate at all without the shipping going on across the Great Lakes!!!
    I do hope this is your real voice (& not AI) so soothing, smooth, calm & reassuring - despite every video involves death in watery graves!!! Thank you for all you are doing, we need these archives you have created!!!

  • @ElizabethMayo-sf4wg
    @ElizabethMayo-sf4wg 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a wonderful job of telling a very hard story!!! Your voice is so soothing!!!

  • @fosterkennel649
    @fosterkennel649 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very well done young man on this documentary blessings to you and yours

  • @benjaminlambert8944
    @benjaminlambert8944 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Your videos are so good. My absolute favorite for some time now. Keep up the great work!

    • @BigOldBoats
      @BigOldBoats  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you!

  • @raquellofstedt9713
    @raquellofstedt9713 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for another fantastic video. your delivery is so respectfull and poetic with out being melodramatic, and the photographic and filmatic material is wonderfull!

  • @mellissadalby1402
    @mellissadalby1402 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You did an excellent job reporting on such a terrible and tragic storm.
    I appreciate all the trouble you went to getting photos of the actual vessls (where ever possible).
    "Red sky at morning, sailor take warning". I guess that old adage was ignored?

  • @michaelaltig5519
    @michaelaltig5519 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I make popcorn for your videos!

  • @Tindometari
    @Tindometari 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    November. *Of course* it was November. That one month when everybody aboard a Great Lakes ship is tickling the dragon's tail and knows it. That one month that will make any ocean mariner who thinks 'lake shipping' is a joke shut right up.

  • @Liddledriver
    @Liddledriver หลายเดือนก่อน

    I always enjoy your presentations and noticed after watching many of them that the greed of the shipping companies and lack of loss prevention were at the heart of most of the losses.

  • @JG-dy6yq
    @JG-dy6yq 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Loved this. Great job. You have a gift for storytelling and found some amazing footage.

  • @difdaf436
    @difdaf436 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I half watch your videos because the content interests me and half because your voice is very soothing.

  • @TheC0RPSE666
    @TheC0RPSE666 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    God bless those courageous souls

  • @oldwolf9949
    @oldwolf9949 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Y’all have to realize the swells on Lake Michigan are a lot closer together than on the Oceans making them way more treacherous

  • @EliteAmerican1776
    @EliteAmerican1776 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love your videos as a former sailor n great lakes native your videos are amazing

  • @captainchimp
    @captainchimp 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Hearing that armistice day is not often remembered in the US is surprising. In Canada Nov 11 know as Remembrance Day for us, is a pretty big deal.

    • @ANYHOO0
      @ANYHOO0 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'm guessing that if you ask most people under 50 in the US very few would have even heard of it, WW1 is virtually forgotten unless you're a history buff.

  • @tommyjay4723
    @tommyjay4723 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for the upload. I learn so much watching channels like yours.
    Some good, some bad, but I do learn how hard it was back then.

  • @davidryall-flanders6353
    @davidryall-flanders6353 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Always glad to see a new video from this channel. Look forward to the next one.