Love seeing an old steamer still around in some way. That red and black smokestack against the grey white hull so lovely. Hope she stays around for a long time to come.
Me being selfish hope it's in Alpena or Detroit. I live in Detroit, the rest of my family is scattered from tawas up to Alpena in the lower peninsula. In the upper they're exclusively in copper harbor
Sadly, no. The Ojibway was at the top of my wish list for a while, but she didn’t make any runs to Duluth in her final decade. I planned to eventually catch her at the Soo Locks someday, but her sudden retirement and scrapping put an end to that. 😔
What a beauty! She is as pretty as can be. I love the Captain introduced her as the STEAMER Alpena. All lit up and those steam horns are awesome such a different type of sound. Shout out to the folks who go down to watch these ships come in (I'm jealous) and welcome her crews. May the Alpena grace us for years and thank you to the Inland Lakes Mgmt company for keeping this grand old girl riding the waves.
The Alpena - from a time when steam horns and other equipment was vapourware- and it was a good thing! 8^) Nice to see the USCG small boat in action too. Great video!
What a nice video! I always enjoy seeing the two bright range lights. Especially the one mounted very high behind the funnel. Happy you got to catch your first night time arrival.
I just love her! My favorite part of her is the stern. I'm so excited for her to be coming to spend their off time here in Cleveland 💕. Thank you for a superb video!
This is a great video, beautiful old lady of the lake still swishing on down the line, I love it. Nice catch of the small plane between her tall lights after she went under the ariel lift bridge too. What a great evening, so glad you were there!!
Strange weather indeed. I still have my summer hanging baskets outside my front door. They have refused to die, even when temps went down to 29 a few nights ago. I’ve never had them last this late in the year.
Wow! 1942! That's so cool! Served since the war while her sisters are now tuna cans. Sort of sad but glad to see her still going. Steam horns sound really neat! Thank you for sharing this! Loved it!
There was something special about the older naval architecture. The liners with swept back towering funnels, the huge black hulls, and,of course the old horns and whistles. I’m from New York City and remember the liners like the 1934 Queen Mary and 1936 Queen Elizabeth, the various French Lines and Holland America liners passing the Statue of Liberty with their whistle salutes. Even the old steam powered Staten Island Ferries added their charm to New York Harbor. This old steamer brings back the fond memories.
I would love to take a trip and go aboard one of those ships. As interesting as it would be, I would still feel badly about what happened to other ones which foundered taking so many souls with them. I would always remember those people and say a prayer in my heart for the families who lost them. The Alpena is a really nice boat!!!!
The, Steamer,Alpena is looking good 👍 👀 👌 for her Young Age. Especially, when's she's all,litup.And, the SALUTES 🫡 ARE VERY LOUD AND CLEAR SALUTES 🫡! Hopefully, The Alpena will have a lot of more Sailings,ahead of her. 6:32
Oldest ship and best looking in appearance. Good crew and company keeping her painted up. A lot of freighters have been looking worse and worse as time has gone.
Thanks for another great video! I was looking forward to this one. Such a beautiful ship all lit up, even her smoke stack looks lit up. She looks good for 80+ years old. i consider myself very lucky to have seen her in person, Labor Day weekend in Milwaukee when she was moored by the cement silos there. But she never visits my neck of the woods (Welland Canal) so watching these videos of her, as well as other ships I rarely get to see is a real treat!
@@1Long2Shortthat would have been cool to see. Interestingly, the other day I came across a pic online somewhere of her in the Welland Canal back when she was still the Leon Fraser.
The old girl still got it, I wonder how many old steam powered traders are still working. I know the Arthur m Anderson is. But not sure how many others
I miss hanging out at the lift bridge when I would visit my sister when she went to UW Superior. Seeing the Meteor was cool too as was the way the William Irvine was set up as a haunted ship during October!
I said it before and I say it again: there is nothing that can hope to hold a candle to the thunderous howl of a boiler fed steam whistle over the water
Do the ships in harbour on New Year’s Eve sound their horns at midnight? I used to love that sound as a child, when we lived a few miles from the city docks.
I tend to think of Lee as being “built” for the lakes in 1960… while Alpena has been on the lakes her entire career. But Lee certainly had an interesting history before coming to the lakes. 🙂
Beautiful ship, wish i went to Duluth to witness these ships myself, great video man. By the way, do you use a scanner to hear the communications between the ship and the bridge? If so, which one?
Whats amazing is how many November storms she's survived, that fact makes me speechless. The fact she's still in one piece is even more amazing, and mind blowing. I can tell you this when November comes around that's when you start shitting mountains. As a son of fish canners, and Alaska fishers, much love to all of ya, the shipping industry is a extremely dangerous job, and it takes unbelievable bravery to work in it, proud to be apart of the family🇺🇸💪❤️
The bridge is the link for road traffic to reach Minnesota Point. The bridge lifts to let the boats through the canal, but mostly stays in the down position to let road traffic flow.
IMAGINE A NOVEMBER BLOW such as the1913,'40,'75,'89....😞.Does the U.S.COAST GUARD actually test the evacuation capability of these large ships. Actually take a ship out into lake superior or any area subject to large volume of wave actions and reproduce actual emergency scenario where the crew has to get into lifesuits,get to the lifeboat, deploy and man,crew the lifeboat... ABANDON SHIP TESTS ???
Love seeing an old steamer still around in some way. That red and black smokestack against the grey white hull so lovely. Hope she stays around for a long time to come.
I hope so too! 🙂
Way too many of these old boats have been lost to the years...
Not recently. The last ship to be lost on the Great Lakes was the Edmund Fitzgerald @katherineberger6329
82 years old and still a beauty!
She's a year older than me!😅
Hope she's around for many years to come
Love the Alpena so much, hopefully whenever she is retired she gets to be preserved.
Me being selfish hope it's in Alpena or Detroit. I live in Detroit, the rest of my family is scattered from tawas up to Alpena in the lower peninsula. In the upper they're exclusively in copper harbor
What a town. The townsfolk stand in the harbour in the middle of the night to welcome ships to Duluth.
Thank you for documenting these historical vessels while we still have some around.
Thanks! I regret not starting much earlier when we still had some straight deckers in service.
@@1Long2ShortKnowing that I wouldn't be able to go through ALL your videos, did you ever document the Ojibway?
Sadly, no. The Ojibway was at the top of my wish list for a while, but she didn’t make any runs to Duluth in her final decade. I planned to eventually catch her at the Soo Locks someday, but her sudden retirement and scrapping put an end to that. 😔
The grand old lady of the lakes. What a beauty!
I love seeing old steamers that are still around, shes very beautiful ship, i love the red & black smokestack
What a beauty! She is as pretty as can be. I love the Captain introduced her as the STEAMER Alpena. All lit up and those steam horns are awesome such a different type of sound. Shout out to the folks who go down to watch these ships come in (I'm jealous) and welcome her crews. May the Alpena grace us for years and thank you to the Inland Lakes Mgmt company for keeping this grand old girl riding the waves.
She is indeed a beauty. I put about 360 miles on my car to capture her on video. 😁
@@1Long2Short Well worth it, not enough words to say how beautiful she is.
The goings on of these ships is unbelievable and really entertaining.
I love the shadows of the crowd on her hull. Great video! Someday I hope to get to Duluth to experience the ships coming through the canal myself.
I keep meaning to show more of the crowds in my videos, but at least I got their shadows this time. 😄
Oh yea, that is in my bucket too.
What a classic lake steamer beautiful!
Beautiful old ship. Outstanding presentation.
Another one of those darn night videos! 😆
@@1Long2Short We appreciate you for doing this, not often we hear onlookers responding also. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
@@joane8651 Thank you Joan! Appreciate your support! 😊
A piece of history still here absolutely stunning amazing!!!
The Alpena - from a time when steam horns and other equipment was vapourware- and it was a good thing! 8^) Nice to see the USCG small boat in action too. Great video!
Thanks Jeff! I figured someone might want to see (and hear) the small boat in action.
The shadows on the ship from the lighting are astonishing as well. What a beauty 💯 Thank you. 👍🏼💕💜 from Michigan.
Thanks for watching!
Good to see a classic steam whistle still around!
That ain't a Whistle, that's a steam horn!
Who knew , before discovering Duluth on my phone that there is such elegance on the water! Thank you@
It’s always good to see Alpena!
Love watching these videos. Love to those who handle these vast vessels and to the people of Duluth who salute the older steamers.❤
Finally, something older than me. Better looking too. Love the old Lakers
love the Alpena, got a picture of her 5 years ago docked here in St. Joe (MI) have that as my home page background, graceful and ageless.
What a nice video! I always enjoy seeing the two bright range lights. Especially the one mounted very high behind the funnel. Happy you got to catch your first night time arrival.
Thanks Chuck! There’s a crow’s nest just under that rear light. I bet that would be an interesting place to ride, especially in bigger waves!
I just love her! My favorite part of her is the stern. I'm so excited for her to be coming to spend their off time here in Cleveland 💕. Thank you for a superb video!
Thank you!
Stunning artistry! May it illuminate the mind of many.
Thank you!
Beautiful lady !!! The SS Alpena has grace !!!
What an exciting site to see on video. It must be awesome to be there . WOW
It is awesome, even if 90% of my concentration is focused on my camera. 😉
This is a great video, beautiful old lady of the lake still swishing on down the line, I love it. Nice catch of the small plane between her tall lights after she went under the ariel lift bridge too. What a great evening, so glad you were there!!
Thanks Lisa! Hope you’re doing well 🙂
@@1Long2Short 32 inches of heavy wet snow, I've had serious cabin fever, can't dig out ❤🩹so it's melting, discouraging but all is well!
Woah! 32 inches of snow already. Wet snow is the worst. ❄️
@@1Long2Short Absolutely. At least my barn and house are ok. This is April snow, not November. Strange weather!
Strange weather indeed. I still have my summer hanging baskets outside my front door. They have refused to die, even when temps went down to 29 a few nights ago. I’ve never had them last this late in the year.
Beautiful!
She's a beauty. Good vid!
Thanks!
Wow! 1942! That's so cool! Served since the war while her sisters are now tuna cans. Sort of sad but glad to see her still going. Steam horns sound really neat! Thank you for sharing this! Loved it!
Thanks for watching!
There was something special about the older naval architecture. The liners with swept back towering funnels, the huge black hulls, and,of course the old horns and whistles. I’m from New York City and remember the liners like the 1934 Queen Mary and 1936 Queen Elizabeth, the various French Lines and Holland America liners passing the Statue of Liberty with their whistle salutes. Even the old steam powered Staten Island Ferries added their charm to New York Harbor. This old steamer brings back the fond memories.
Miss visiting my parents up there. Duluth is a cool town to visit!
Gotta love the classic ladies
LIKE YOU SAID IN YOUR DESCRIPTION, MAY SHE CONTINUE TO SAIL FOR MANY MORE YEARS TO COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would love to take a trip and go aboard one of those ships. As interesting as it would be, I would still feel badly about what happened to other ones which foundered taking so many souls with them. I would always remember those people and say a prayer in my heart for the families who lost them. The Alpena is a really nice boat!!!!
Thats the sort of ship id love to have a trip on. I dont care where id just love to see it in person and take a ride wherever it was going
The, Steamer,Alpena is looking good 👍 👀 👌 for her Young Age. Especially, when's she's all,litup.And, the SALUTES 🫡 ARE VERY LOUD AND CLEAR SALUTES 🫡!
Hopefully, The Alpena will have a lot of more Sailings,ahead of her. 6:32
I hope so too! My philosophy is to see them while you still can… or capture them on video while you still can! 😉
thanks for sharing👍
You’re welcome! 🙂
Navy family here! Marylanders, too! Love watching ships of all different types! ⚓️⛵️⚓️🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊GO NAVY! 🫡🫡🫡
Love that ship!
From Deb…Alpena at night…spectacular…love the red on her stack…nice horn too. Enjoyed this!
Thanks Deb! I like the red stack too. It contrasts nicely with the light green paint.
The Alpena a awesome great ship, still miss the S.T.CRAPO,P.H.TOWNSEND,J.B.FORD,and E.M.FORD what a ship 🚢 fleet of the Great Lakes 👍 👏😃
Shes absolutely gorgeous
Great looking ship! Love the bikes hanging on the back “patio.”
Fantastic!
It's nice seeing the Alpena making more trips to Duluth this season!
Coming back tomorrow too! 🙂
Oldest ship and best looking in appearance. Good crew and company keeping her painted up. A lot of freighters have been looking worse and worse as time has gone.
excellent footage thank you
Thanks!
Thanks for another great video! I was looking forward to this one. Such a beautiful ship all lit up, even her smoke stack looks lit up. She looks good for 80+ years old. i consider myself very lucky to have seen her in person, Labor Day weekend in Milwaukee when she was moored by the cement silos there. But she never visits my neck of the woods (Welland Canal) so watching these videos of her, as well as other ships I rarely get to see is a real treat!
Thanks! I seem to recall the Alpena made a rare trip through the Welland Canal around 6-8 years ago. So maybe you'll get lucky someday!
@@1Long2Shortthat would have been cool to see. Interestingly, the other day I came across a pic online somewhere of her in the Welland Canal back when she was still the Leon Fraser.
I see her and smile ❤❤❤
Gotta love the classic horn!
I would like to see her boilers and engine room. Great vessel. Thank you.
The old girl still got it, I wonder how many old steam powered traders are still working. I know the Arthur m Anderson is. But not sure how many others
There are four still in service: Alpena, Wilfred Sykes, Arthur M. Anderson, and Philip R. Clarke
I miss hanging out at the lift bridge when I would visit my sister when she went to UW Superior. Seeing the Meteor was cool too as was the way the William Irvine was set up as a haunted ship during October!
🍺🎉⏱️🛳️This is sooo much my heritage. Nothing,like being on a Great Lake when the nigh wind becomes part of our entire being.
Magnificent!
Best active horn on the Great Lakes.
My second favorite behind the Barker
Watching that got me fixin' to play some old Lightfoot tracks.
At around 4:53 the hotel seen at the base of the bridge is the South Pier Inn. It's a great hotel, and there's no place better for boat watching.
Totally agree!
Can someone explain to me how this 82 beauty is cleaner from her stacks than a refitscrubber ?
Absolute stunning vessel!
Great video too.
Thank you!
I love Alpena, she's my Favortie Great lakes Freighter, sorry James R Barker but who needs diesel when you got steam!
Never thought I'd see the ALPENA racing a helicopter! 🤣
I think the Alpena won! 😆
@@1Long2Short The Tortoise and Hare all over again. 😆
I said it before and I say it again:
there is nothing that can hope to hold a candle to the thunderous howl of a boiler fed steam whistle over the water
I know this only shares my town's (Alpena Michigan) name, seeing the name is a good thing to me ❤
She loads cement at least once a week in Alpena, so the name fits! 🙂
Still the coolest ship on the lakes in every way.
Spectacular beauty 😍.
That dual horns sound similar than I expected.
Do the ships in harbour on New Year’s Eve sound their horns at midnight? I used to love that sound as a child, when we lived a few miles from the city docks.
Good question! I’ve never been in Duluth at midnight on New Year’s Eve, so I don’t know. 🤔
Last I heard she was in good shape and no reason she won't be around to see 100 years of service.
If it still looks good, it works! 😊
Provided jobs for 82 years. Keep it going!
Once she retires she should be a museum ship.
She also sounded her pilothouse mounted air horn.
I was wondering if that might have been the second horn. 🤔 Makes sense.
Yeah, it's a KM-185. I know they're playing with it right now but it's probably used for fog signaling.
It's crazy how those ships practically have no wake, yet that small Coast Guard vessel does...
2:13 Did she get a modern horn somewhere else, or was one of the 300s replaced?
She does have a new horn, the 300s are not replaced
Seeing how there's double A and triple A class lakers, was there an A-class laker at some point?
I’n not sure. 🤔
Sounds like batteries lol.
Long live steam on the lakes
Shortening this ship made her look better in my opinion. She was beauty originally, but she looks great today too.
I agree. She has really attractive proportions that look just right! 🙂
V cool!
Beauty of a ship xD.
I wonder how those steam engines do in maintenance compared to the Diesels
Hard to believe she was originally 120 feet longer!
I didn't realize/had forgotten that she was older than the Lee Treggy. I generally think of the Lee as being the grandmother of the lakes.
I tend to think of Lee as being “built” for the lakes in 1960… while Alpena has been on the lakes her entire career. But Lee certainly had an interesting history before coming to the lakes. 🙂
Beautiful ship, wish i went to Duluth to witness these ships myself, great video man. By the way, do you use a scanner to hear the communications between the ship and the bridge? If so, which one?
It’s worth making the trip if you get the chance. For the scanner, I use the online site Broadcastify.
Whats amazing is how many November storms she's survived, that fact makes me speechless. The fact she's still in one piece is even more amazing, and mind blowing. I can tell you this when November comes around that's when you start shitting mountains. As a son of fish canners, and Alaska fishers, much love to all of ya, the shipping industry is a extremely dangerous job, and it takes unbelievable bravery to work in it, proud to be apart of the family🇺🇸💪❤️
Can someone let me know why some ships will blow a captains salute and others will blow a masters salute? Thanks!
It’s up to the preference of the captain. 🙂
It might be nice to get a little explanation of the history behind this ship.
See the video description 🙂
Fun fact: S.S. Actually stands for Screw Ship, not steam ship 😉
Screw that! 😁
Is the bridge lowering and raising just for traffic control or security or what?
The bridge is the link for road traffic to reach Minnesota Point. The bridge lifts to let the boats through the canal, but mostly stays in the down position to let road traffic flow.
The ships pass under it. It is a pedestrian bridge when it is down.
i would like to be a captain of a ship like that one
The ship must be fluffy.
she always comes to green bay i never get chance to see her
I could visit. Wave an American flag and wish them fair winds and following seas. I spent 20 at sea, but not one minute on fresh water.
I bet you have some stories to tell!
Has the author Anderson been scrapped?
Arthur M. Anderson is still active. I have lots of videos of her on this channel! 🙂
🤓🙋♂️❤👍
🙂
Where’s the author Anderson
the oldest vessel on the great lakes
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👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
IMAGINE A NOVEMBER BLOW such as the1913,'40,'75,'89....😞.Does the U.S.COAST GUARD actually test the evacuation capability of these large ships. Actually take a ship out into lake superior or any area subject to large volume of wave actions and reproduce actual emergency scenario where the crew has to get into lifesuits,get to the lifeboat, deploy and man,crew the lifeboat... ABANDON SHIP TESTS ???