A few months before I was born, so I obviously didn’t see it. My mom, dad and my siblings probably went down there to look at it. My dad played trumpet for a few years on the BobLo boats. His main job was at the Elmwood Casino.
My parochial school took all the kids to Boblo for an annual school event, in June, before the year ended. This was 1956-63. I think we went by that ship.
I lived on Bagley St at 23 St at the time in Detroit MI, I could walk down 23 St all the way to the Detroit River it was about a mile at the most, fun back in the day for a 15-year-old.
Born and raised Windsorite here! ⚘🙏❤ My parents would drive with us siblings down Riverside Drive on the Windsor side. My Dad would slow down for us to see this shipwreck. I was 5 then and it seemed eery to see this huge ship sticking out of the river, motionless, especially at night! I remember the ship was there for awhile until it could be salvaged. I've always wondered what happened to the crew and if they all survived? Thanks for the great video and memory, albeit a sad one. ✅
I'll never forget. I went on an unplanned blind date, along with my girlfriend and her boyfriend to see the Montrose. We were so excited to be going to see it and amazed to see all the other people along the shore of the Detroit River. My date turned out to eventually be my husband. This was our first date. He has passed this year.
My parents used to tell me that there was a joke circulating at the time, that since the barge was American owned, and the Montrose was a U.K. owned vessel, the Montrose was the first British ship to be sunk by the Americans since the war of 1812 (Definitely in the Detroit River anyway LOL.).
@MikeEvensWindsor: Speaking of my grandad, how about a story on the Windsor/Detroit Ferry Boat. He was a ticket collector during prohibition. He is also the only one in the family, that I am aware of, that has been immortalized in a book 'The Rumrunners: A Prohibition Scrapbook. Not sure how the author heard of him, but he recounted some of the ways people smuggled alcohol from Windsor to Detroit. The book was published 6 years before he passed away. He was suitably proud, as I am. Thanks!
Very cool, thanks Mike. Grew up in Windsor but would have only 4 or so at the time; have only heard of this in very recent years. Just subscribed to your channel.
I remember the sinking like it was yesterday.We heard of a ship sinking in the Detroit River from the nightly news cast .My Mother took me down to the spectacular sight of the ship sinking with all its lights on and the sound of sirens,and emergency boats racing up and down the river.What a site it was.Within a few days some of my buddies and myself payed the 10 cents it cost then to walk across the bridge and stand directly above the ship as it lay on its side.We made it a regular trip so we could watch the salvage crews work on it till the day they patched the hole in it and it was raised again.I tell my grandchildren that story all the time,they think it is one of my fairy tales.- Ed
My father was Chief Engineer on the carferries just upriver of where she sunk. They to maneuver around the wreck pulling in or out of Detroit side docks.
...I remember it well - I was on the Bob-Lo boat for the 1st time, with a neighbor and their family...my Dad had made an observation the night before that the Bob-Lo boats were way old, so in my 7 year old brain, I guess I thought the thing could sink at anytime! We went by the Montrose on its side, just south of the Ambassador Bridge...everyone was on that side of the Bob-Lo boat and it was leaning over somewhat - too much, I thought! My friend's mom couldn't find me, then she went to the other side of the boat, where I was hanging on to the railing...my logic was - that if the Bob-Lo boat was going to tip over, I wanted to be on the side that was facing up!!
My Dad had a dream about this the night before. The next day he was on his way home from work driving down Riverside Drive was in complete shock. My Mom says when he walked in the house he was shaking and looked like he'd seen a ghost lol
@@MikeEvansWindsor I'm pretty sure your dad has many very interesting tales in his brain that I'm sure he would wish he never would of seen. Never told you about. I was born 2 years after this event. I love sharing your videos. You do a lot of great digging.
I’m wondering if you could find some information on the old “Rum Runners” bar in Windsor that use to be in the west end of Windsor. Apparently many years ago they use to smuggle booze into & from Rum Runners bar & there was a secret tunnel to hide the booze etc. Al Capone use to frequent Rum Runners bar back in the day & collecting his share of the $$. There are old photos of booze runners literally driving across the Windsor/Detroit river in the winter time when the winters were much harsher & colder.
I live two blocks from the entrance to the bridge on the American side. I saw the boat from the shore and wonder what the other side look like. Being poor I beg mom for a dime because that's what it cost in 1962. That twelve year old still remembers that day.
Do you remember a store in the bridge plaza called Lafayette Bait shop? It always amazed me that the bait shop was right there in the plaza for so long.
Very happy Alan was saved from drowning, his Aunt Marion was there at the right time. Very scary for the family. Love Patsy P.S. I was living in N.B. at that time.
Crazy! Is the ship still at the bottom of the river? I'd love to see footage of what's down there including old cars from the bootlegging days! I wonder if that type of footage even exists
Hi Brian. They ended up removing it. it took them 3 months. The ship was reassembled and still used for years. (It never did return to the great lakes)
There is very little footage that I have seen of the river bottom. It is so murky down there because it is moving so fast. Only once in a while is it clear enough to see in.
There’s a small aircraft in the river, near where the ocean freighters used to drop off the rail cars at the Windsor waterfront, back when it was still railroad tracks.. our family was out on the boat, dropped anchor there, and couldn’t pull up the anchor, it was stuck. Dad had a diver friend go down, found the aircraft (and recovered the anchor, that was thru the windshield of the aircraft,single engine,while he was down there)🤙🏻
The picture of it shows it resting on the bottom. I doubt there would be much to find as anything that would be "A hazard to navigation" would be removed as soon as possible.
Fellow Windsorite here! AWESOME video man I never knew this!
A few months before I was born, so I obviously didn’t see it. My mom, dad and my siblings probably went down there to look at it. My dad played trumpet for a few years on the BobLo boats. His main job was at the Elmwood Casino.
This is a great video. I remember my dad holding me while we leaned over to see the ship wreck. I was just a kid about five years old.
Live near Cleveland. CKLW was a very popular and powerful AM station we listened to routinely. Never saw the massive tower until I found this channel.
I can see the lights of Cleveland from the beach in Wheatley Ontario on clear nights in the summer and can get 98.5 WNCX from there too
Wowwww i did not know this happened. Ahhhh and that Boblo Boat was a part of my childhood ! Really enjoying your channel man 😃👌
My Dad and I were one of the many that went to take a look…I was young, but I remember the sight…
Wonderful pictures. I remember that event with great clarity.
Hi Peter hope you are doing well. Cheers.
Love it, Mike!
Thanks Amy 😊
I remember that very very excited to see it up close,,
I rember hearing about this when I was a kid my grandfather talking about it but never paid that much attention being a kid
My wife's Grandpa used to walk from Windsor to Detroit every day for work across that bridge. Mind-blowing.
It really is mind-blowing
My parochial school took all the kids to Boblo for an annual school event, in June, before the year ended. This was 1956-63. I think we went by that ship.
this is great footage!!
Man I miss Boblo Island we use to go every year until it shut down in 92 or 93
I dropped a penny off the Ambassador bridge onto the ship's hull - I can still hear the "ping" today :o)
In 1962 I was 18 and I liked it !!
I was 7 years old. Remember going with my family on to the bridge to see it.
I lived on Bagley St at 23 St at the time in Detroit MI, I could walk down 23 St all the way to the Detroit River it was about a mile at the most, fun back in the day for a 15-year-old.
Never seen it, I wasn't even 1 yet. lol. March 30. 62 was my brand new day!
Born and raised Windsorite here! ⚘🙏❤
My parents would drive with us siblings down Riverside Drive on the Windsor side. My Dad would slow down for us to see this shipwreck.
I was 5 then and it seemed eery to see this huge ship sticking out of the river, motionless, especially at night!
I remember the ship was there for awhile until it could be salvaged.
I've always wondered what happened to the crew and if they all survived?
Thanks for the great video and memory, albeit a sad one. ✅
I'll never forget. I went on an unplanned blind date, along with my girlfriend and her boyfriend to see the Montrose. We were so excited to be going to see it and amazed to see all the other people along the shore of the Detroit River. My date turned out to eventually be my husband. This was our first date. He has passed this year.
I was 7 years old and my Mom brought me and my brothers to the ship from the Canadian side... Quite a site!
I was one of those kids that walked across the bridge to see it.
My parents used to tell me that there was a joke circulating at the time, that since the barge was American owned, and the Montrose was a U.K. owned vessel, the Montrose was the first British ship to be sunk by the Americans since the war of 1812 (Definitely in the Detroit River anyway LOL.).
I remember walking down to Dieppe Park to see it in the distance. My grandad drove us down Riverside Drive to get a closer look later that day.
@MikeEvensWindsor: Speaking of my grandad, how about a story on the Windsor/Detroit Ferry Boat. He was a ticket collector during prohibition. He is also the only one in the family, that I am aware of, that has been immortalized in a book 'The Rumrunners: A Prohibition Scrapbook. Not sure how the author heard of him, but he recounted some of the ways people smuggled alcohol from Windsor to Detroit. The book was published 6 years before he passed away. He was suitably proud, as I am.
Thanks!
Very cool, thanks Mike. Grew up in Windsor but would have only 4 or so at the time; have only heard of this in very recent years. Just subscribed to your channel.
My pleasure. Thank you Bob.
I remember the sinking like it was yesterday.We heard of a ship sinking in the Detroit River from the nightly news cast .My Mother took me down to the spectacular sight of the ship sinking with all its lights on and the sound of sirens,and emergency boats racing up and down the river.What a site it was.Within a few days some of my buddies and myself payed the 10 cents it cost then to walk across the bridge and stand directly above the ship as it lay on its side.We made it a regular trip so we could watch the salvage crews work on it till the day they patched the hole in it and it was raised again.I tell my grandchildren that story all the time,they think it is one of my fairy tales.- Ed
I remember when this happened my mom dad and myself went for a drive.to see it
My father was Chief Engineer on the carferries just upriver of where she sunk. They to maneuver around the wreck pulling in or out of Detroit side docks.
Awesome video Mike
Thanks Big John!
@@MikeEvansWindsor awesome video AND I noticed the music in it was by my brother Marc :o
...I remember it well - I was on the Bob-Lo boat for the 1st time, with a neighbor and their family...my Dad had made an observation the night before that the Bob-Lo boats were way old, so in my 7 year old brain, I guess I thought the thing could sink at anytime! We went by the Montrose on its side, just south of the Ambassador Bridge...everyone was on that side of the Bob-Lo boat and it was leaning over somewhat - too much, I thought! My friend's mom couldn't find me, then she went to the other side of the boat, where I was hanging on to the railing...my logic was - that if the Bob-Lo boat was going to tip over, I wanted to be on the side that was facing up!!
My Dad had a dream about this the night before. The next day he was on his way home from work driving down Riverside Drive was in complete shock. My Mom says when he walked in the house he was shaking and looked like he'd seen a ghost lol
Interesting. Both of my parents were in Windsor at the time. But neither of them ever mentioned it.
That is incredible. To have a vision like that is of God.
@@MikeEvansWindsor I'm pretty sure your dad has many very interesting tales in his brain that I'm sure he would wish he never would of seen.
Never told you about.
I was born 2 years after this event. I love sharing your videos. You do a lot of great digging.
Cool Man!!
I’m wondering if you could find some information on the old “Rum Runners” bar in Windsor that use to be in the west end of Windsor. Apparently many years ago they use to smuggle booze into & from Rum Runners bar & there was a secret tunnel to hide the booze etc. Al Capone use to frequent Rum Runners bar back in the day & collecting his share of the $$. There are old photos of booze runners literally driving across the Windsor/Detroit river in the winter time when the winters were much harsher & colder.
Great idea. I'll look into it
Seen this from the Boblo boat.
Very cool
i have photos of the Montrose taken by my grandfather from the bridge
I live two blocks from the entrance to the bridge on the American side. I saw the boat from the shore and wonder what the other side look like. Being poor I beg mom for a dime because that's what it cost in 1962. That twelve year old still remembers that day.
Do you remember a store in the bridge plaza called Lafayette Bait shop? It always amazed me that the bait shop was right there in the plaza for so long.
was the barge owned by the Ryan Cement Company? Ron Binks
Very happy Alan was saved from drowning, his Aunt Marion was there at the right time. Very scary for the family. Love Patsy P.S. I was living in N.B. at that time.
Did you know someone who was on board?
Way before I was born. 🤔
Crazy! Is the ship still at the bottom of the river? I'd love to see footage of what's down there including old cars from the bootlegging days! I wonder if that type of footage even exists
Hi Brian. They ended up removing it. it took them 3 months. The ship was reassembled and still used for years. (It never did return to the great lakes)
There is very little footage that I have seen of the river bottom. It is so murky down there because it is moving so fast. Only once in a while is it clear enough to see in.
There’s a small aircraft in the river, near where the ocean freighters used to drop off the rail cars at the Windsor waterfront, back when it was still railroad tracks.. our family was out on the boat, dropped anchor there, and couldn’t pull up the anchor, it was stuck. Dad had a diver friend go down, found the aircraft (and recovered the anchor, that was thru the windshield of the aircraft,single engine,while he was down there)🤙🏻
The picture of it shows it resting on the bottom. I doubt there would be much to find as anything that would be "A hazard to navigation" would be removed as soon as possible.
Wow ,didn’t know
I wasn’t born yet..interesting to know this... that’s where the fish are hiding 🤣🍻🍻
we would stop on bridge and drop coins on it .
Man I miss Boblo Island we use to go every year until it shut down in 92 or 93