I second this motion! A grand "HUZZAH!" for the Herculean effort this fine fellow puts into his videos. What a great way to learn history while eating a bowl of Cheerios. Also, the camera work is outstanding. Way to go dude!
Wait, how else do people pronounce it? I'm from Ohio so admittedly I don't hear it come up as often as you would, but any time I have I've only heard it the way he pronounced, which imo seems very as it looks.
@@leigha2814 I pronounced it puget with a hard g when my family first moved here when I was a kid. I also pronounced Sequim like sequin. I did know how to pronounce Puyallup due to the popularity of the Puyallup Fair.
Proud PNW resident, driven by that wreck countless times, and One Thousandth 👍 Thank you for the way you thoroughly comb through the history of these vessels.
Glad you found it and shared the story; I tracked it down a few years back and was fortunate to find it on an extreme low tide. It felt a little surreal to stand "aboard" the Potter.
Another excellent video, Tom. These old ships, they no longer remain forgotten, thanks to all the hard work you and your friends put into telling their story. Cheers.
You have a way of telling history that inspires. Prayerfully your videos inspire more to indulge in visiting and learning the valuable history of these time capsules. I've never been one for maritime history. I'm somewhat phobic of water I can't see the bottom too lol. But I DO ENJOY your video docs! Thank you! God Bless!
I'm from the NW so whenever you do a video out here I get excited, I love learning about my local history! Excited for more in the future 🎉 keep up the good work!
I was there like 2 weeks ago, ate at Moe's, and after eating fish 'n chips for like 4 days straight, I have to say Moe's were the best. And they were all great. Ahhh I want to go back even though mum and I did everything. We are getting away every weekend along the PNW coast so we can mourn my sister who sadly passed about 3 months ago. I used to tell her we'd go to all of these places, see all the wrecks, the museums.... I had always been fascinated by wrecks, and I'd always talk to her about it and watch videos and stuff.
Thank you very much for this video Tom and Emma and anyone involved, this was another touching story Tom and I like it when you show us a wreck you can get out to, to see the 'old bones' of a ship somehow connects you to it and it was good of you to leave that picture at the site. 😊❤⚓🚢
I lived in Astoria about 3 blocks up from where you filmed! When I was growing up, depending on the tides you could see the Potter and several other hulls of wooden vessels in Young's Bay. It was a wonderful place to grow up! Love your channel and always excited to see where you'll take us next.
Tom, Thank you. Having spent most of my life in New Jersey, I recognized some of your earlier videos. My family and grandchildren live in Vancouver, Washington and I've been to Astoria, but didn't know about this Historical vessel. I'm in Ferndale, WA for the last 11 years, but visit the family, so next time we go down there, I think Astoria will be on my see list. Thank you, Frederick "Rik" Spector
In the early 70's my family got kinda stuck for a few days in an old motel across the highway from that. I my early-teen boredom I spent many hours sitting on that bank and wondering what the story of those rotting hull pieces sunk into the mud was---now I know and it was more than I would have ever thought possible. Thanks for closing that circle for me.
A Pussey and Jones steam yacht by the name of “Cangarda” still surveyed today after a lengthy restoration in Oakland, California . another vessel, very reminiscent to her, sits out of the water near Eureka California . I believe she’s being restored at this moment. 😊
Great video, Tom! Puget Sound eventually made a new dog mount, and it got passed about between the Fleetwood, the Greyhound, the Gatzert and the Telegraph throughout the late 1890s and early 1900s. Oddly the Flyer didn't seem to have it, despite usually being the fastest ship on the Seattle-Tacoma run. The Greyhound also added a broom to her pilothouse, to basically show that she'd swept the competition.
The whole Mosquito Fleet era was a very colorful time for maritime travel on the Sound. Until I studied it, I didn't truly appreciate just how many passenger landings there used to be, the vast majority of which are now, at most, a few rotted pilings on a beach.
The angle the picture from 10:09 make her look like a sternwheeler. I had me confused for a while, had to keep looking at the picture a few times before it dawned on me what was happening. Great video as always.
Something about the combination of the topic of your videos, and specifically the music in this one, makes me so nostalgic for the NC Maritime Museum in my hometown of Beaufort, NC. Worth a visit if you find yourself in that area!
As a kid I enjoyed watching the Eugene and Portland steam powered stern wheelers on the Columbia from our house that over looked the Columbia river at Cathlamet. The steamers were run by the Corps of Engineers to pull logs and stumps from the river channel and having a shallow draft were perfect for the job. I loved listening to their steam whistles.
I've been watching your fascinating documentaries. You should make a documentary about the vintage Puget Sound ferries, especially about the ferry Kalakala.
Tom. You should do a video on the MV Plassey shipwreck in Ireland. It’s an abandoned shipwreck in Ireland that has been wrecked for over 60 years. It’s a shipwreck that is fully explorable despite being rusted away and split in half. A very neat wreck. Love this video.
Excellent video. Much appreciate your thoroughness in researching the ship. Just want to add, as a Seattlite, that the fire was the best thing that ever happened to the city.
Sees a singular stick in the ground: this was the resting place of an ocean liner That’s what I like about these videos, you can never know if it once took an actual form or not
Tom, wonderful video, once again, on forgotten Pacific Northwest Maritime history. Before the video I had heard of the T.J. Potter, but not sure where I had come across it. I hope you plan to do more videos of the Maritime History of the Pacific Northwest, and the accessable wrecks. I am a historian with a passion for local history and always wanting to learn more. I grew up around Titlow Beach (Tacoma), and I'm wondering if the T.J. ever docked there when she was doing her Olympia/Tacoma/Seattle runs.
I have been visiting Astoria my whole life and drove past this a million times thinking it was just another remnant of a bygone pier. What an amazing story. P.S. For any future visitors check out Fultanos pizza just up the road they are a classic family pizza parlor (they even have a bar and AYCE pizza buffet!)
A little while back I decided to listen to all my stuff like that (except music, different songs are all over the place in speed). Twice the amazing content in the same amount of time.
Along with the T.J. Potter, my mom used to ride on the Virginia V up and down the Columbia before the hiways were finished. The Virginia V was restored and the last time I saw her she was moored on Lake Union in Seattle.
Thanks again for this upload, once again very very interesting and providing a huge amount of detail through thorough research. Have you seen the news of the wreckage of a ship becoming visible in the Mississippi in Louisiana due to low water levels? A ferry which sank in 1915 during a storm. Perhaps an interesting topic to cover?
It's amazing to think that such costly and grand vessels had an expected lifespan barely longer than a modern car. It's inevitable that they should eventually cease to be used, but their ends seem so ignominious and lacking in respect, especially for a vessel that was the pride of the river for a number of years.
It is cold, and I can't watch the M's kick ass, so I made myself a sandwich. I love your videos so much. So Zen, and as I live in the great state of Washington, I appreciate your content!
Another excellent video. Documenting the lost paddle steamers of America. It’s Quite sad that there is not many if any of these beautiful ships left. I suppose the reason is that they would be very expensive to maintain, as they are constructed of wood. Their skeletons will be lost for ever soon . 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Have you ever thought about doing a collaboration with our friend mike brady from oceanliner designs? You guys both make my favorite most informative ship videos there so well done i often get confused who made which video. Absolutely love the dedicated maritime history you both bring
I had a friend named E.J. Potter, AKA The Michigan Madman. He drag raced a Corvette engined motorcycle "Bloody Mary", and the "Widow Maker", and then a jet powered tractor.
The racing of the river boats reminds me of an old Lucky Luke comic book that I read and re-read many times as a kid depicting a fictional race along the Mississippi river. As poorly as some aspects of that comic book series have aged, there's a lot of old West history to be had in them for sure!
Great story! I'll have to see if I can find the remains next time I'm in Astoria. Certainly, this is overshadowed by the Peter Iredale. Speaking of wrecks in the general area, ever hear of the SS Catala? When I was a young kid, my grand parents would take us to Ocean Shores, and I swore looking back as if through a fever dream that there was a wrecked ship on the shore near where we stayed. Sure enough, there was. The Catala. But the hulk was broken up I guess in the late 80's and then buried in the sand.
Great video. I really enjoyed the thorough explanation of steamboats you provided! I wonder if you know of the wreck?of the steam ship Lexington. At the time 1838 considered the fastest steamship at the time. Or the steamers that plyed the Missouri River in the 1850- 1880. Bringing people and goods to Montana and Dakota Territories. Both are of a personal interest to me.
It's a real shame that she couldn't be preserved.
Great video, Tom 👍
No matter what you’re talking about Tom, Ships, Ghost Towns, anything you make it entertaining
I still can barely fathom how the quality of these videos keeps improving. Cheers to another captivating video!
Have you been copying from the bots? 😉
@@Martial-Mat what makes you think that?
@@apancher You used almost exactly the same language that porn bots spam onto every video.
@@Martial-Mat lol ok then
I second this motion! A grand "HUZZAH!" for the Herculean effort this fine fellow puts into his videos. What a great way to learn history while eating a bowl of Cheerios. Also, the camera work is outstanding. Way to go dude!
Without hyperbole…you are doing God’s work with this channel.
Thank you so much for what you do.
As a Washingtonian, well done with pronouncing Puget Sound correctly. I hear so many people from outside the Northwest mispronounce it 😅
Wait, how else do people pronounce it? I'm from Ohio so admittedly I don't hear it come up as often as you would, but any time I have I've only heard it the way he pronounced, which imo seems very as it looks.
@@leigha2814 I've heard people pronounce it "poo-jit" instead of "pew-jit" and others rhyme it with "budget"
@@leigha2814 I pronounced it puget with a hard g when my family first moved here when I was a kid. I also pronounced Sequim like sequin. I did know how to pronounce Puyallup due to the popularity of the Puyallup Fair.
It's always a bit sad when these videos of these old wooden vessels come out. Always enjoyable thou.
Let’s be honest this is wayyyy better than PBS, wonder, or any other documentaries
his mary celeste doc is still the best thing on you tube
Nice experience traveling down memory lane to my days in Portland from 1980 & the wide expanses of the Columbia River 💚
Very interesting video. Love hearing about these forgotten old ships who deserve to be recognized. Thank You for your hard work Tom!
Proud PNW resident, driven by that wreck countless times, and One Thousandth 👍 Thank you for the way you thoroughly comb through the history of these vessels.
I’m from Oregon and I didn’t know about this story . I love learning about stories of the PNW.
Glad you found it and shared the story; I tracked it down a few years back and was fortunate to find it on an extreme low tide. It felt a little surreal to stand "aboard" the Potter.
Another excellent video, Tom. These old ships, they no longer remain forgotten, thanks to all the hard work you and your friends put into telling their story. Cheers.
Another great tale as always. Thanks for all you do to record these sites and ships history
Your videos are so captivating, I've shared them with my parents and they love them too!
Your vids get better and better. Thanks for the time and research you invest into fun history.
You have a way of telling history that inspires. Prayerfully your videos inspire more to indulge in visiting and learning the valuable history of these time capsules. I've never been one for maritime history. I'm somewhat phobic of water I can't see the bottom too lol. But I DO ENJOY your video docs! Thank you! God Bless!
I'm from the NW so whenever you do a video out here I get excited, I love learning about my local history! Excited for more in the future 🎉 keep up the good work!
Such a sad ending for such a beautiful boat. Thank you for the video!!
As an Oregonian, its hard to believe you're not from here, with as much love as you give to our coast. Love your videos.
Portland here! I'm fascinated with maritime history, and to live in the Pacific Northwest, with such a rich history. 🌹
portland aint part of oregon hun thats a 3RD WORLD COUNTRY
@@Jupiter503 Your ignorance is stunning
I love these vids and this channel, great work!
Fantastic video! Thank you for sharing parts of history that might otherwise be forgotten.
Wow. What a beautiful boat. Very interesting story. Loved it. 😊😊😊
Im from oregon and had no idea the wreck was here. Im familiar with many wrecks but not this one! Wonderful video
I was there like 2 weeks ago, ate at Moe's, and after eating fish 'n chips for like 4 days straight, I have to say Moe's were the best. And they were all great. Ahhh I want to go back even though mum and I did everything. We are getting away every weekend along the PNW coast so we can mourn my sister who sadly passed about 3 months ago. I used to tell her we'd go to all of these places, see all the wrecks, the museums.... I had always been fascinated by wrecks, and I'd always talk to her about it and watch videos and stuff.
Fascinating story!
Also, as a (former) Puget Sound area resident (Tacoma) kudos to you on your perfect pronunciations of the area!
Thank you very much for this video Tom and Emma and anyone involved, this was another touching story Tom and I like it when you show us a wreck you can get out to, to see the 'old bones' of a ship somehow connects you to it and it was good of you to leave that picture at the site. 😊❤⚓🚢
Terrified of boats but obsessed with stories about shipwrecks
I know its just internet names, but I always get a giggle when I haer the two Kaisers supporting your Patreon :) Anyway, great video!
Excellent work my friend! Thank you for doing these videos. You bring long-lost history to life.
I lived in Astoria about 3 blocks up from where you filmed! When I was growing up, depending on the tides you could see the Potter and several other hulls of wooden vessels in Young's Bay. It was a wonderful place to grow up! Love your channel and always excited to see where you'll take us next.
Tom,
Thank you.
Having spent most of my life in New Jersey, I recognized some of your earlier videos.
My family and grandchildren live in Vancouver, Washington and I've been to Astoria, but
didn't know about this Historical vessel.
I'm in Ferndale, WA for the last 11 years, but visit the family,
so next time we go down there, I think Astoria will be on my see list.
Thank you,
Frederick "Rik" Spector
It is a long time i see a new Video from you. Nice one.
In the early 70's my family got kinda stuck for a few days in an old motel across the highway from that. I my early-teen boredom I spent many hours sitting on that bank and wondering what the story of those rotting hull pieces sunk into the mud was---now I know and it was more than I would have ever thought possible. Thanks for closing that circle for me.
A Pussey and Jones steam yacht by the name of “Cangarda” still surveyed today after a lengthy restoration in Oakland, California . another vessel, very reminiscent to her, sits out of the water near Eureka California . I believe she’s being restored at this moment. 😊
Great video, Tom!
Puget Sound eventually made a new dog mount, and it got passed about between the Fleetwood, the Greyhound, the Gatzert and the Telegraph throughout the late 1890s and early 1900s. Oddly the Flyer didn't seem to have it, despite usually being the fastest ship on the Seattle-Tacoma run. The Greyhound also added a broom to her pilothouse, to basically show that she'd swept the competition.
The whole Mosquito Fleet era was a very colorful time for maritime travel on the Sound. Until I studied it, I didn't truly appreciate just how many passenger landings there used to be, the vast majority of which are now, at most, a few rotted pilings on a beach.
The angle the picture from 10:09 make her look like a sternwheeler. I had me confused for a while, had to keep looking at the picture a few times before it dawned on me what was happening. Great video as always.
Something about the combination of the topic of your videos, and specifically the music in this one, makes me so nostalgic for the NC Maritime Museum in my hometown of Beaufort, NC. Worth a visit if you find yourself in that area!
As a kid I enjoyed watching the Eugene and Portland steam powered stern wheelers on the Columbia from our house that over looked the Columbia river at Cathlamet. The steamers were run by the Corps of Engineers to pull logs and stumps from the river channel and having a shallow draft were perfect for the job. I loved listening to their steam whistles.
I've been watching your fascinating documentaries. You should make a documentary about the vintage Puget Sound ferries, especially about the ferry Kalakala.
What a sad end to a fine ship 🚢
Excellent timing! We are planning a trip to Astoria in the next month or two. Fun to be near the location of one of your explorations.
Tom. You should do a video on the MV Plassey shipwreck in Ireland. It’s an abandoned shipwreck in Ireland that has been wrecked for over 60 years. It’s a shipwreck that is fully explorable despite being rusted away and split in half. A very neat wreck. Love this video.
Idk why but these videos always make my day, awesome channel!
Excellent video. Much appreciate your thoroughness in researching the ship.
Just want to add, as a Seattlite, that the fire was the best thing that ever happened to the city.
He's back
What a beautiful documentary :) Great channel. Subscribed!
I love this channel!
A fascinating and very well produced video, as always :) I like your new studio set up.
Well done!
Enjoyed your documentary!
Anchorage, Alaska
Great research, as always.
Thanks for your time I grow up in Ilwaco very cool story thanks 👍👍👍😊
Another great video, good job!
Sees a singular stick in the ground: this was the resting place of an ocean liner
That’s what I like about these videos, you can never know if it once took an actual form or not
Good stuff Tom!
Tom, wonderful video, once again, on forgotten Pacific Northwest Maritime history. Before the video I had heard of the T.J. Potter, but not sure where I had come across it. I hope you plan to do more videos of the Maritime History of the Pacific Northwest, and the accessable wrecks. I am a historian with a passion for local history and always wanting to learn more. I grew up around Titlow Beach (Tacoma), and I'm wondering if the T.J. ever docked there when she was doing her Olympia/Tacoma/Seattle runs.
I have been visiting Astoria my whole life and drove past this a million times thinking it was just another remnant of a bygone pier. What an amazing story.
P.S. For any future visitors check out Fultanos pizza just up the road they are a classic family pizza parlor (they even have a bar and AYCE pizza buffet!)
Very interesting well done!
Accidentally had it on 2x speed wondering why he was talking so fast.
I may try that for fun...😉
A little while back I decided to listen to all my stuff like that (except music, different songs are all over the place in speed). Twice the amazing content in the same amount of time.
@@thedemolitionmuniciple I do it once in a while as well.
Lol I may have to try that
Lol
Thanks!
Thank you!
Thanks for another great video!
Such a sad ending for a great ship. The TJ Potter looks and sounds so cool.
⛸ I always love the lace in this series! She does seem to be the most subtle of the princesses you have done.....
Hazzah!! Wonderful video. I didn't know it sat there wonderful....
Nicely done!
Well done, sir !!!👍👍
Great video, Tom
What a fantastic bit of history 👍👍🇦🇺
Along with the T.J. Potter, my mom used to ride on the Virginia V up and down the Columbia before the hiways were finished. The Virginia V was restored and the last time I saw her she was moored on Lake Union in Seattle.
She had a good long run. Glad to see she's still somewhat remembered.
Great video, thank you:)
Thanks again for this upload, once again very very interesting and providing a huge amount of detail through thorough research.
Have you seen the news of the wreckage of a ship becoming visible in the Mississippi in Louisiana due to low water levels? A ferry which sank in 1915 during a storm. Perhaps an interesting topic to cover?
These videos pretty much eternalize them.
Nice video. 🎉.
Good work Tom, from Maldon UK.
Just got back from astoria and having gone there for years never knew that wreck was down there.
It's amazing to think that such costly and grand vessels had an expected lifespan barely longer than a modern car.
It's inevitable that they should eventually cease to be used, but their ends seem so ignominious and lacking in respect, especially for a vessel that was the pride of the river for a number of years.
I want to save this for tomorrow when I can get some food and a cocktail going, but your vids are so good it is hard to wait! :)
It is cold, and I can't watch the M's kick ass, so I made myself a sandwich. I love your videos so much. So Zen, and as I live in the great state of Washington, I appreciate your content!
Another great video. I especially like it when you cover PNW history, the PNW being my homeland.
That fire story at about 8:00 - WOW.
Another excellent video. Documenting the lost paddle steamers of America. It’s Quite sad that there is not many if any of these beautiful ships left. I suppose the reason is that they would be very expensive to maintain, as they are constructed of wood. Their skeletons will be lost for ever soon . 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Me: There's a new Part Time Explorer video up!
My kids: *drop what they're doing and rush into the bedroom to watch*
Have you ever thought about doing a collaboration with our friend mike brady from oceanliner designs? You guys both make my favorite most informative ship videos there so well done i often get confused who made which video. Absolutely love the dedicated maritime history you both bring
We used to, but it didn't work out well
Great history here.. Anyone who knew this ship are gone, but some of the ship remains to tell there story....
I had a friend named E.J. Potter, AKA The Michigan Madman. He drag raced a Corvette engined motorcycle "Bloody Mary", and the "Widow Maker", and then a jet powered tractor.
The racing of the river boats reminds me of an old Lucky Luke comic book that I read and re-read many times as a kid depicting a fictional race along the Mississippi river. As poorly as some aspects of that comic book series have aged, there's a lot of old West history to be had in them for sure!
Ships like this always make me sad.
My Grandpa and his cousin ran a Ferry named the Watco on the Columbia River in the 20s and 30s, from Astoria to Cathlamet.
Great story! I'll have to see if I can find the remains next time I'm in Astoria. Certainly, this is overshadowed by the Peter Iredale.
Speaking of wrecks in the general area, ever hear of the SS Catala? When I was a young kid, my grand parents would take us to Ocean Shores, and I swore looking back as if through a fever dream that there was a wrecked ship on the shore near where we stayed. Sure enough, there was. The Catala. But the hulk was broken up I guess in the late 80's and then buried in the sand.
Great video. I really enjoyed the thorough explanation of steamboats you provided!
I wonder if you know of the wreck?of the steam ship Lexington. At the time 1838 considered the fastest steamship at the time. Or the steamers that plyed the Missouri River in the 1850- 1880. Bringing people and goods to Montana and Dakota Territories. Both are of a personal interest to me.
I actually have a video on the Lexington, although it's one of my older ones ua-cam.com/video/Ao8Wz-MsFq0/v-deo.html
good vid as always, @Part-Time explorer you should investigate the sinking/loss of SS traffic, sister to the ss nomadic
nice vid
awesome another story from our pnw!!!
You should make DVDs
Bob the video Oregon born used to live in Astoria when I was a kid I remember seeing all sorts of kind of bones like that
Crosby stills, Nash and Young said it best. Mother Earth will swallow. You lay your body down, including everything we build.
She’s painted on the back wall of our gas station. If you do follow ups I will go get some footage of it and send it to you.
it is the nature of things in this universe, that they can't last forever.
farewell to the TJ Potter, and all who sailed on her.
aww that's so sad... 😢
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