The Anderson’s nearly 70 and looking it in some spots, but, she’s still a beautiful ship. I love it how she simply and silently glided through the water with barely a ripple, as if she were transiting through a giant mill pond
Beautiful video thank you. The grand lady gets a well deserved 5 day break. She’s serving her crew well. She’s a well respected veteran of the lakes. A well loved legend ❤️
It is great to see the sister ship of the Edmond Fitzgerald, the Anderson is still in great condition after a long time working. God Bless all the crew.
Just an amazing ship! Thank you! I was an Rotary youth exchange stundent in Ontonagon MI in 1986/87, and I loved looking at the Anderson and her sister ships off loading coal for the paper mill. I am glad to see the ship is above water and makeing money. Great job! Keep it up. Greetings from Norway!
@@Zzus321 Fresh water lakes do have a lot to do with that. On ocean going vessels, salt water corrosion takes it's toll, and the size of ports etc constrain the size of "lakers" to where they have not become obsolete. Whereas container ships get larger and larger thus making the smaller ones obsolete and sent to the shipbreakers.
SS Arthur M. Anderson came out of the drydock of the American Ship Building Company of Lorain, Ohio in 1952. She had a length of 647 feet (197 m), a 70-foot (21 m) beam, a 36-foot (11 m) depth, and a gross tonnage of roughly 20,000 tons. The Last ship to talk to the Edmund Fitzgerald before it sank and the first on scene for the rescue. Cool video ! Big boat for such a small canal .
I watched the 1st 1000' The Bell River ( believe it's been renamed) launched from Bay Ship, and later cruise out that canal into Lake Michigan past the Lighthouse and break wall. That was a stuffed canal that day. Watched tall ships to ore carriers traverse the canal since I can remeber.
"The Last ship to talk to the Edmund Fitzgerald before it sank" Thanks. I was watching this video thinking "I know this ship... Why do I know this ship... " Saved me a google search... :)
I liked the shot of sister ship bows together, and the artistic placing of the cranes in the yard. I'm almost tempted to swap trains for ships, almost. A new view for me in the UK.
I cannot explain why buy I find these vessels truly mesmerizing. I can sit for hours and watch them arrive and depart port or pass through the locks at Ste St Marie. God bless the sailors who man these great ships.
I don't know beans about these great lake freighters, I'm a farmboy/ land lubber from Ohio. I left the Army in 1987, settled in central Virginia on a small farm near the Shenandoahs and loving it here - but, I very vividly remember the November evening when the Fitz was lost, such a tragedy then... the Gordon Lightfoot song haunts me to this day. This short vid is just awesomeness, to see the Aurther A. go through that canal with such grace was pure poetry. Thanks very much for making this. God bless the men who make her go, and so efficiently, after 70 years. 👍
Every time I see this ship bow (head) on, it looks like a Boeing 747. The Arthur Anderson... jumbo jet of the Great Lakes. Truly, a masterpiece and monument to American shipbuilding!! Sidenote on the Edmund Fitzgerald... Capt. McSorley lived around the corner from us when I was growing up in Toledo, Ohio.
Something inspiring about the ship and certainly it's history and as a guy who feels a sense of accomplishment from backing a 6 wheel truck into a tight driveway I'm humbled
I love this video, I love the softness of the music with this enormous ship just floating by, you have a master's eye and the combination you made is just PERFECT. Thank You!
I've done work on many of the great lakes ships, including the Anderson. I have even sailed a loop with the crew (not the Anderson) one time. When I see people that take such an interest in these ships, I wish they could at least take a tour of one. My experience is that the engines are loud, and if you spend enough time aboard, the constant, steady drone stays with you for hours after you leave. Another, is that the crew eat very well. Those cooks were fantastic. Also, getting to watch as they loaded oar in Superior was pretty cool. Oh, and the captain even invited me up to the pilot house anytime something interesting was going on. (Navigating locks or tight riverways). I was only aboard for a few days, but it was fun while it lasted.
The Anderson speaks for the Fitz both Great lakes legends and in my opinion the Anderson needs to be a museum and filled with things from the Fitz etc like the Valley Camp.
First thing I noticed is the bow thruster signs on each side of the bow are at different heights. To see thousands of tons move so gracefully, and quietly is amazing.
Been more than 30 years since I've seen the canal. As a young man who spent lots of time fishing the break walls of Sturgeon Bay and Algoma as well as the canal brings back a lot of memories. Lived there for 3 years on South Lake Michigan dr. near Claybanks. Recently was sent a link to I think the Advocate that had an article on the sale of the Sturgeon Bay Yacht Harbor.
A lot of people think that the SS Edmund Fitzgerald was a made up name for a song, but she was real! This ship tried guiding the Big Fitz thru the storm that eventually sank the Big Fitz, she was the one that called to the Coast Guard (Canadian & US) that the Fitz had been sunk. (Sunk so fast that no radio call went out from her!) SS Anderson, which by that point had made the safe waters of Whitefish Bay, followed the unwritten code of mariners everywhere, and went back out to help the search for any survivors!!! A Gallant ship indeed!!! (I''m glad that I saw this, I thought they had sold her for scrap -- -- --.)
i live in Chicago n we don't get too many opportunities to see these great ships. but these videos are absolutely awe-inspiring. to imagine what they go through on the Great Lakes and can still move so silently when they come into the docks, it takes my breath away. to listen to nature as it comes down the channel...AMAZING!!! 👏👏👏👏👏
My family and then me and my children always drove through Sturgeon Bay on our way to visit my grandmother/great-grandmother every year in the summer to a little town right on Lake Michigan. The shipyard has been there as long as I can remember.
Thank you for the beautiful footage. It’s amazing how they float by you and you don’t even hear them. I camped on the river by the Soo Locks and all through the night you couldn’t hear them going by. Amazing giants.
Impressive A working tribute to the engineering and shipbuilders of the time. I've never seen the ocean, but when I used to haul to Chicago & St Louis I would see these wonderful ships. Great video, thanks
I worked as a welder during the middle 70’s at what was that time Fraser Shipyard in Superior, Wisconsin. The Anderson was one of the ships that I believe we lengthened. The Callaway was also a ship that we worked on.
She's a national treasure and should never be scrapped. would love too see as a museum ship some day . Perfect spot would be Buffalo NY harbor at the navel park along side the Cruiser , and destroyer moored there.
My good friend is in the midst of preparing a written/pictorial history of some of the Great Lakes best fishing vessels. Those designed and built by John Hurley, mainly constructed in the 50’s and 60’s and most are still working on the water! I love these behemoths of the Great Lakes! (just a little larger than the vessels my friend is studying! - lol)
Is it always this quiet when the ships pass through? The light on the vessel is unusually attractive. I spent many hours as a child 70 years ago watching ore boats at Two Harbors and Duluth harbors, and these videos are quite reminiscent of those days, especially since some of the ships and their whistles are the same ones.
Sure hope they fix her. We’ve lost too many of these to the scrappers over the years. The saddest ever will be when they scrap the Ryerson. Maybe Sturgeon Bay could save Eddie as a mesuem.
Almost 70 years old and still working on the Great Lakes, absolutely amazing
The Anderson’s nearly 70 and looking it in some spots, but, she’s still a beautiful ship. I love it how she simply and silently glided through the water with barely a ripple, as if she were transiting through a giant mill pond
Beautiful video thank you. The grand lady gets a well deserved 5 day break. She’s serving her crew well. She’s a well respected veteran of the lakes. A well loved legend ❤️
Living in S Texas the last 40 yrs, I still get homesick when ever I view an excellent video of the work horses of the great lakes ……… thank you ❤️
Lived on the Great Lakes my who life and it never ceases to amaze me to see these majestic ships! Thanks for a great video!
It is great to see the sister ship of the Edmond Fitzgerald, the Anderson is still in great condition after a long time working. God Bless all the crew.
No she's not the Edmund Fitzgerald's sister. She was built 6 years before Edmund
Thank you for this information. As I stated it, it was described as it.
@@robertreisner8132 The Anderson was 2 miles behind the Edmund Fitzgerald the night she was lost. Not a sister ship but still connected.
Well of that, I learned that from the 1975 news report on TV.
The Fitz had a sibling called the Arthur B. Homer, but she was scrapped in the 80's I believe.
Just an amazing ship! Thank you! I was an Rotary youth exchange stundent in Ontonagon MI in 1986/87, and I loved looking at the Anderson and her sister ships off loading coal for the paper mill. I am glad to see the ship is above water and makeing money. Great job! Keep it up. Greetings from Norway!
Amazing that she is almost 70 years old and is still an active commercial ship.
Thay don't build em like that anymore
@@Zzus321 Fresh water lakes do have a lot to do with that. On ocean going vessels, salt water corrosion takes it's toll, and the size of ports etc constrain the size of "lakers" to where they have not become obsolete. Whereas container ships get larger and larger thus making the smaller ones obsolete and sent to the shipbreakers.
@@Jethrosgarage Fresh Water ships need electrolious plates just like salt water ships. That are configured a little different
SS Arthur M. Anderson came out of the drydock of the American Ship Building Company of Lorain, Ohio in 1952. She had a length of 647 feet (197 m), a 70-foot (21 m) beam, a 36-foot (11 m) depth, and a gross tonnage of roughly 20,000 tons. The Last ship to talk to the Edmund Fitzgerald before it sank and the first on scene for the rescue.
Cool video ! Big boat for such a small canal .
Thanks for the info, I didn't know but was wondering about this ship.
I watched the 1st 1000' The Bell River ( believe it's been renamed) launched from Bay Ship, and later cruise out that canal into Lake Michigan past the Lighthouse and break wall. That was a stuffed canal that day. Watched tall ships to ore carriers traverse the canal since I can remeber.
"The Last ship to talk to the Edmund Fitzgerald before it sank"
Thanks. I was watching this video thinking "I know this ship... Why do I know this ship... "
Saved me a google search... :)
I sailed for 3 months just days out of high school on the Lackawanna back in 1968. Great Memories of the beginning of my life as a man.
I am not sure when, but my grandfather sailed on the Lackawanna, my dad has a picture of her at his house.
"beginning of my life as a man."
Were you a woman before that? What was that like?
@@subinct lol.... I was a child.
@@subinct he was saying he was a boy, and that made him into a man. Much like riding your momma into the sunset.
Very cool seeing her cruising by ..I feel a little sad as she always reminds me of the Fitz
I've driven by her a few times on the Michigan St Bridge and gotten pretty close while on the water, what a great vessel
I liked the shot of sister ship bows together, and the artistic placing of the cranes in the yard. I'm almost tempted to swap trains for ships, almost. A new view for me in the UK.
I'm 63 ,laying in bed it's 11pm and when the horn blew I teard up and felt.like an 8yr boy.....thank ror that!!!!
calm water ... subtle music ... approaching gently ... geese gaggling ... chatting too ... then kapow kapow ... awesome! thanks very much
I cannot explain why buy I find these vessels truly mesmerizing. I can sit for hours and watch them arrive and depart port or pass through the locks at Ste St Marie. God bless the sailors who man these great ships.
Grandfather was an engineer on her many years ago,retired shortly before the year the fitz went down...
I don't know beans about these great lake freighters, I'm a farmboy/ land lubber from Ohio. I left the Army in 1987, settled in central Virginia on a small farm near the Shenandoahs and loving it here - but, I very vividly remember the November evening when the Fitz was lost, such a tragedy then... the Gordon Lightfoot song haunts me to this day. This short vid is just awesomeness, to see the Aurther A. go through that canal with such grace was pure poetry. Thanks very much for making this. God bless the men who make her go, and so efficiently, after 70 years. 👍
Every time I see this ship bow (head) on, it looks like a Boeing 747. The Arthur Anderson... jumbo jet of the Great Lakes. Truly, a masterpiece and monument to American shipbuilding!! Sidenote on the Edmund Fitzgerald... Capt. McSorley lived around the corner from us when I was growing up in Toledo, Ohio.
Something inspiring about the ship and certainly it's history and as a guy who feels a sense of accomplishment from backing a 6 wheel truck into a tight driveway I'm humbled
Beautiful A Master Salute , thankyou Captain, may I return the gesture, with Blessings
I love this video, I love the softness of the music with this enormous ship just floating by, you have a master's eye and the combination you made is just PERFECT. Thank You!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Truly a great ship !
Agree. This is part of Americana. Sail on old girl!
I've done work on many of the great lakes ships, including the Anderson. I have even sailed a loop with the crew (not the Anderson) one time.
When I see people that take such an interest in these ships, I wish they could at least take a tour of one.
My experience is that the engines are loud, and if you spend enough time aboard, the constant, steady drone stays with you for hours after you leave. Another, is that the crew eat very well. Those cooks were fantastic. Also, getting to watch as they loaded oar in Superior was pretty cool. Oh, and the captain even invited me up to the pilot house anytime something interesting was going on. (Navigating locks or tight riverways).
I was only aboard for a few days, but it was fun while it lasted.
I would love to do a loop! You are so lucky!
The Anderson speaks for the Fitz both Great lakes legends and in my opinion the Anderson needs to be a museum and filled with things from the Fitz etc like the Valley Camp.
I just made the same comment about the Anderson on a different video. Agreed, needs to be a museum, not scrapped.
Nice palate cleanser from the hard times going on around us.
I know what you're saying.
👍👍
First thing I noticed is the bow thruster signs on each side of the bow are at different heights. To see thousands of tons move so gracefully, and quietly is amazing.
Cool catch. I’m quite sure that was a muck up.
I caught that too. Maybe the thruster ports are actually at different depths although this seems unlikely
@@jamesstuart3346 I think it's more a case of the guy painting one side of the bow was taller than the other guy. lol
Been more than 30 years since I've seen the canal. As a young man who spent lots of time fishing the break walls of Sturgeon Bay and Algoma as well as the canal brings back a lot of memories.
Lived there for 3 years on South Lake Michigan dr. near Claybanks.
Recently was sent a link to I think the Advocate that had an article on the sale of the Sturgeon Bay Yacht Harbor.
A lot of people think that the SS Edmund Fitzgerald was a made up name for a song, but she was real!
This ship tried guiding the Big Fitz thru the storm that eventually sank the Big Fitz, she was the one that called to the Coast Guard (Canadian & US) that the Fitz had been sunk. (Sunk so fast that no radio call went out from her!)
SS Anderson, which by that point had made the safe waters of Whitefish Bay, followed the unwritten code of mariners everywhere, and went back out to help the search for any survivors!!!
A Gallant ship indeed!!! (I''m glad that I saw this, I thought they had sold her for scrap -- -- --.)
She was laid up for awhile but recently had extensive work so hopefully will be with us for a long time.
She is beautiful! She still sails smooth after all these years.
A very historical ship. Every time I look at her, I can hear Gordon Lightfoot singing his famous song.
I thought about that song too.
@@anthonyholmes71 lol, it’s timeless classic 🎼🎼🎼🎸🎸🎸
Amazes me how quiet these ships really are. Watch them going up and down the river in Port Huron all of the time.
They are steam powered so very quiet!
it's amazing how something so big can leave such a small wake. Paparazzi are there in force to get the best shots, I see ;)
Love that. Being of the same age, beard and interests, it may be more a case of Grandpaparazzi!
Gosh ... I have a twin screw 38 footer and I can't back her that nice! Great ship handling Captain.
i live in Chicago n we don't get too many opportunities to see these great ships. but these videos are absolutely awe-inspiring. to imagine what they go through on the Great Lakes and can still move so silently when they come into the docks, it takes my breath away. to listen to nature as it comes down the channel...AMAZING!!! 👏👏👏👏👏
Yeah, chicgao is big and yet it’s smaller brother to the north (Milwaukee) gets alt he big ships
I can’t believe it is 70 years old , it looks so good 😍😍👍👍
I worked on the Houston ship channel & I have seen some beautiful & not so beautiful vessels in my time but she is beautiful!!!
Great shots, thanks so much for the views! admiring the Lakes and freighters from afar :-)
Glad you enjoyed it
She is the queen of all ,what a beauty! God bless the crew ,and be safe out there!
Launched 16 February 1952, and the last to see the Edmund Fitzgerald before she sank. Soon be 70 years old.
Freighters have intrigued me all my life. I could watch them all day. Well done!!!!
*Wonderful* to see this beautiful and historic ship still working at almost 70 years old!
My family and then me and my children always drove through Sturgeon Bay on our way to visit my grandmother/great-grandmother every year in the summer to a little town right on Lake Michigan. The shipyard has been there as long as I can remember.
The videography, editing and still pictures are outstanding.
That massive machine moving by and she hardly disturbs the water... Amazing!
Awesome video. Thank you for offering it. You provided great quality and we recognize & appreciate your passion & skills.
Well done ✌🏻
I appreciate that!
Thank you for the beautiful footage. It’s amazing how they float by you and you don’t even hear them. I camped on the river by the Soo Locks and all through the night you couldn’t hear them going by. Amazing giants.
gosh she's smooth... hardly a ripple at her bow
My family had a cottage in Sister Bay. I love living in Wisconsin and I love the Great Lakes
Impressive
A working tribute to the engineering and shipbuilders of the time.
I've never seen the ocean, but when I used to haul to Chicago & St Louis I would see these wonderful ships.
Great video, thanks
Love this ship and the history that goes with it
I know absolutely nothing about ship's and the great lakes, however that is 1 big boat lol. Beautiful
Same here, and even though I knew it was coming, that salute still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up!
All that tonnage and it barely disrupts the surface of the water. Quite beautiful and amazing.
This is the hobby I wanna do when I grow old and grey. Ship, Plane, Truck, and Train spotting/fanning
Awesome to get a master salute from the legendary Arthur M Anderson.
I worked as a welder during the middle 70’s at what was that time Fraser Shipyard in Superior, Wisconsin. The Anderson was one of the ships that I believe we lengthened. The Callaway was also a ship that we worked on.
That's awesome,I miss the Edmund Fitzgerald I remember when it went down, I love those big ships
Without question...the most famous "Laker" of them all!
Even in front of the Edmund Fitzgerald...???
@@alexandra.willitts6988 Active laker...
@@alexandra.willitts6988 Perhaps because of the Fitz and the historical significance between the two?
The second most famous.
Thanks for a great video! I like your background music and your style of presentation! You have a big fan! Happy New Year!
Thanks!
My favorite ship !.....................................see her all the time on lake Huron, north of the bridge.
She's a national treasure and should never be scrapped. would love too see as a museum ship some day . Perfect spot would be Buffalo NY harbor at the navel park along side the Cruiser , and destroyer moored there.
Omg a ship museum sounds amazing!!! That would be so fun to go and see these beautiful ships!
Ya mean the ones that keep sinking? No to New York
Poetry in motion, beautiful . Thanks for sharing with us.
This reminds me of sitting along the Detroit River watching the ships go gliding by. A train horn is nothing compared to the horn on a ship.
Great vid. (Saltash, Cornwall, UK)
Man, if that ship could talk...
Great video! Thank you!
Nice report.
We regularly go to the banks of the Rhine not far from Strasbourg (France) to breathe "sea air".
I like ships around world like your video thank you sir 👍👋🇬🇧🇺🇸
My good friend is in the midst of preparing a written/pictorial history of some of the Great Lakes best fishing vessels. Those designed and built by John Hurley, mainly constructed in the 50’s and 60’s and most are still working on the water! I love these behemoths of the Great Lakes! (just a little larger than the vessels my friend is studying! - lol)
Wow! I didnt know it was still out there. Looks massive
Une silhouette ancienne un navire magnifique.
Is it always this quiet when the ships pass through? The light on the vessel is unusually attractive. I spent many hours as a child 70 years ago watching ore boats at Two Harbors and Duluth harbors, and these videos are quite reminiscent of those days, especially since some of the ships and their whistles are the same ones.
Yes but below decks in the stern was quite loud with engine noise.
I had a cousin that worked on there. In fact he was on the Anderson the night the Edmund Fitzgerald went down. I will never forget that.
Beautiful to see.
Beautiful photos of a beautiful ship. Thank you.
I have seen the Arthur M a number of time going in and out of Duluth Harbor!
I had to check my headphones at the start. Amazing that something of this size is virtually silent until you are in line with her engines.
She is a beauty even though no spring chicken
It’s odd seeing something so large move so gracefully
Sure hope they fix her. We’ve lost too many of these to the scrappers over the years. The saddest ever will be when they scrap the Ryerson. Maybe Sturgeon Bay could save Eddie as a mesuem.
Anderson should be fixed by the end of the week. Pin replacement for the ram on the unloading boom. I think she's going out next week.
Having to choose between the two, I'd rather lose Eddie than the Anderson.
@@Islander39er Anderson is most certainly a historical vessel.
All I can say is wow good job thanks so much for posting
Very interesting video, keep them coming👍👍👍👍😎😎
That’s the ship that went BACK out on the nightmare that was Lake Superior to look for Fitz
That’s something
Outstanding. Thanks for posting such a great video.
Is it just me, or did the Anderson vessel go so smoothly into the fix it shop on Sturgeon Bay
Love the master salute!
Thank you!
Nice video!
Very cool & interesting • Cheers from the Detroit & Mackinac Railway 🚂
A proud vessel!
The Anderson actually made Whitefish Bay on that tragic night.
And turned right back around onto the lake again
@@Islander39er yes……bravery in spades. I’ve been up in the lighthouse @ Whitefish. Well worth the trip.
@@jaygatsby1 I'd love to go someday
Fished often at the 'Point' where the Sturgeon used to be.
You can tell she was loaded, especially when photographed with her sister ship.
In this video the Arthur was riding high and very much empty except for water balist.
Wow that is a lot of laker in that creek!
Still graceful at her size
Good ship good crew.
amazing little water movement
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Just saw her at the dock not long ago. We were passing through on the way back from Fish Creek.
Excellent footage!!!
My favorite ship
Wow that's a long ship.