1000 Foot Ships of the Great Lakes - All 13 Vessels!
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- Between 2015 and 2017, I managed to capture footage of all 13 thousand-foot lake carriers in the Duluth, Minnesota area. So it seemed like a good idea to bring them all together for one video. Some of this footage has already been uploaded to my channel as individual videos, some hasn't. But I re-edited the footage and decided to go with natural sound instead of music background this time (even if the wind noise in the microphone is slightly annoying at times). Unfortunately, three of the ships didn't offer up Captain's salutes (American Integrity, Edwin H. Gott, and Burns Harbor).
These 1000-foot ships generally carry either iron ore or coal from the western end of Lake Superior (including the ports at Duluth, Superior, Two Harbors, Silver Bay) to unload at ports in Indiana, Michigan, or Ohio.
Here are the ships covered in the video. All were recorded in Duluth, Minnesota, except where noted. Click the time stamps below to skip to your favorite ship or select video chapters using the progress bay within the video.
0:00 Stewart J. Cort (Superior, Wisconsin)
3:04 Presque Isle
5:28 James R. Barker
8:00 Mesabi Miner
10:40 Walter J. McCarthy
12:46 American Integrity
14:46 American Spirit
16:50 Edwin H. Gott (Two Harbors, Minnesota)
19:52 Indiana Harbor
22:05 Burns Harbor (Superior, Wisconsin)
24:45 Edgar B. Speer
28:39 American Century
32:15 Paul R. Tregurtha
Which ship is your favorite? Which one has the best-sounding horn? Let us know in the comments section.
If you enjoy this video, be sure to check out this newer video I created featuring 40 different freighters of the Great Lakes, including both the modern super carriers and the classic lakers: • 40 Ships in Action: St...
If you just like listening to ship salutes, check out this video I created highlighting the salutes of 35 different lake carriers: • 35 Lakers Saluting! Gr...
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Paul R. Tregurtha is of course, at the End because it’s the Longest of all the Current Great Lake Freighters.
My father was on two of the ships shown the Stewart J Cort and the Burns Harbor. My father was a head chef on both ships. I was even on the the Cort visiting him many years ago. Thank you for showing these awesome ships of the Great Lakes.
Saw a brief documentary about a chief chef who was retiring after 40+ years of service. The interviewer and cameraman were permitted aboard for one of his last trips. He baked fresh bread, croissants, pastries, etc. One meal had around a dozen pork loins. Incredible meals prepared from the heart---
He probably knew my grandfather. Both he and his father both sailed for over 50 years, over 100 years combined. He was a head chief as well.
I help build all the 1000 footers built in Lorain. Very proud of my ships
Good, honest work. Definitely something to be proud of!
@@Gr8Layks Good Work Sir
you should be. Majestic old gals.
Lorain, Ohio--- Once the proud producer of Ship's, Steel, and Automobiles ! Now it's the proud producer of massive amounts of minority babies !!! Dollar store on every corner
Thank you! ❤️ your work
Thank you for making this without any annoying background music or narration, just the sounds of these beautiful big ladies of the Great Lakes. My father started sailing on ships of the Canada Steamship Line when he was only 16. He was from Wiarton on Georgian Bay and work was scarce so a lot of the men from that area sailed. I remember going to pick him up when his ship would come into a port close to home and marveling at the size of it and back then they were only about half the size of these. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
We camped on the St Claire River at Algonac and watched freighters come and go. What struck me was not so much the visual sight of them but how you could feel the rumbling of the ground through the water when they were very far away.
Ah, this is so relaxing. It's amazing how silently they can glide by you. If you closed your eyes, you could easily miss a transit, until they crack the air with some horn music.
One ship that I would love to see in person is SS Arthur M. Anderson, watched a documentary on big Fitz recently and it would be cool to witness in person the very ship that was accompanying Edmund Fitzgerald during that storm in 1975.
The legend lives on...these ships are incredible. I'm not a boat nerd like some of y'all 😉 but these ships are unreal. I can't imagine the inertia these ships have is unfathomable
I'm a maritime security officer let me tell u these r massive ships up close but the nicest people from the boats ull ever meet
I sailed aboard the Canadian ship named the MV Comeaudoc, 734 ft. Seeing these great ships was a sight to behold. With most being self unloaders, the crews were cut drastically. Putting many sailors out of work. Also, due to their length, these ships were limited due to lock sizes as to where they could sail. Like all Great Lakes ships, they had a blunt bow, that made them slow and hard to handle. None the less their size was awesome, and a wonder to watch as they plied their trade. Credit must be given to their skippers for being able to maneuver and berth these ships.
Do you happen to know why the bow is vertical? ...maybe it's better during storms?
@@hines862009 I'd argue they're more like a massive barge(one in fact is) thus giving more usable space for haulage. Surprised they don't haul plus 100,000 actually. 300,000 tons is "China(Vale) Class."
Id never noticed that about the bow befor now. Thanks.
Oh ! Comeaudoc. The old Murray Bay. She was a nice one to look at.
I used to sail into Duluth/ Superior on a regular basis, and this footage brings back some great memories. The ship I worked was a 730' that had twin Pielstik engines which made 15 000 H.P. and gave her a top speed of about 25 kts. The only time we ever went that fast was when we served as the flagship for the fleet and the "commodore" was onboard. Usual cruising speed was 14- 16 kts.
What was her name?
Saw a model of Paul R. Tregurtha at Museum of Science and Industry today. We live right on the South Shore, so we see these freighters regularly from our living room window.
I was in junior high school, when the Stewart J.Cort on it's first voyage. The Stewart J.Cort is the number #1 of the 1000 foot freighters. And this was back in 1972.
I live in Ludington, Michigan, half way up the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. We are a deep water port of refuge. When these 1000 footers came into service, we had to cut back the outer end of our breakwall to allow for the width of these monsters. Our channel also was widened. Pere Marquette Lake (our harbor) had to be modified to allow a 1000 foot ship to make a right turn to get in. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers monitors our channel to keep it deep enough to allow these ships to continue to get in if they should have to run from a storm.
I rode the Badger I think it was out of Ludington to Milwaukee through a wicked storm one night in the late 70's, scared the poo out of me.
I went too ludington Michigan and was shocked by the size of the ferries there.. 1000 foot ships that's crazy big!!
@Steven Van Niman um the west coast of Michigan is the eastern shore of Lake Michigan😉
@@poppawheelie59 The Badger is great. A privilege to ride her
Growing up in Erie, PA I watched as the Stewart J Cort and the Presque Isle were built and launched. Glad to see the shipyard where they were built is active again!
Most of the big boats are over aged now and we need new ones
Chuck Straub where is the shipyard located?
jstoli996c4s Erie Pennsylvania
Chuck Straub is it Donjon?
jstoli996c4s now it is. It was Litton Industries and Perry Shipbuilding back then.
WOW, excellent job, great video quality, and no corny music.
Excellent video, I am fascinated by these gigantic ships.. many thanks for putting this together :)
This footage deserves 3 longs and 2 shorts!!! Much different then the 50's and 60's when I sailed the Great Lakes. Thanks for your efforts to bring this to the Arizona desert...
Thank you for not filling vid with crap music...great job
Billy McNichol
I agree wholeheartedly. I watched the entire vid, and gave it a like. If it had music, I would not have watched it nor given it a like.
I agree! Who needs MC Hammer chucking' and jiving when a ship is passing peacefully?
I agree, why so many people feel they are enhancing a video with music is beyond me. If we wanted music we would be on a music site.
My dad was one of the shipbuilders who built the Edwin H. Gott back in 1978.
William Schmoll Jr I also worked on the Gott during construction really cool experience
@@milesrand8675 must've been heartbreaking when it went down
My grandfather helped build the Edmund Fitzgerald
(Deleted my comment by accident)
I just got back from 3 days in Duluth. Absolutely fabulous place! The Lake, the Ships, the Bridge, the views and hills, not to mention the museums and all the history make this a great vacation spot. The North Shore drive with all the Light Houses and cliffs and waterfalls is probably the most scenic area east of the Rockies!!! Can't wait to go back and spend more time!
Don't remember the name of the area, but the sandbar strip that juts across the harbor..with all the restaurants and bars...was great! Who KNEW COLD Duluth...was so HOT!
BADGUY 1 That would be Park Point, Minnesota. I lived on The Point for the better part of 2 years. Make that 2 winters...Brrrrr!
Sounds like I need to put Duluth on my itinerary! Northeast Ohio Erie shore guy here.
Duluth, Minnesota..proud to have it as my hometown 🇺🇸🦅❤️🤍💙🔧🛠️⚓
Same, I love Duluth. I live 10 hours away, so I rarely get to go there, which makes it all the better when I do. Obviously the focus of tourism is the ships, and the most I have seen on one trip is I think around 6, in just a day or two. Busy year.
The train depot is also great. It has all these trains, old and new, along with a Yellowstone-class locomotive that operated on the Duluth and Mesabi Iron range railroad (I think that’s the right name for the railroad). They also have an awesome HO-scale model train layout.
The area is also home to the first lighthouse in Minnesota. Along Minnesota point (the small island that the aerial lift bridge is connected to) there is a hiking trail that leads goes past the Minnesota point lighthouse. It’s not much anymore, just a crumbling column of 164 year old bricks, but it’s still a cool thing to see
And of course there’s split rock lighthouse along the north shore. I’ve actually gone there the only day in the entire year when they are lighting the spotlight completely by accident…not once, but twice!
TY TY TY you have made a homesick gal feel alot better!
I like to sit under the twin bridges at Point Edward Ontario and watch the ships go by hopping to see a 1000 footer, and of course eating some french fries.
A tradition if your from the area👍🏻
The Barker hands down was my favorite salute. Miss watching these ships go up and down the Detroit river while at work.
The Bark
Thank you. We lived in Hayward Wi for 35 years and spent many happy hours ship watching at the waterfront park. Good memories thanks.
This was fantastic. Having grown up in Buffalo, I love the freighters of the lakes. Even when they "get in the way" of our sailing races. Awesome footage, thanks for this.
The Clydesdales
of the waterways!
Something about watching these Great Ships! Just Awesome!
In the 90's I did winter maintenance on a few of the ore boats. One year I worked on the Gott and the Blaugh which were tied up side by side. I also got to do work on the Callaway, and a cement hauler the St. Crapo the year prior to her retirement. There is no way to do justice to what it is like to see these ships up close and be able to go aboard and work on them. Thanks for the great vid.
If my memory serves me, the St Crapo looked like crappo.
Ah, thanks for this. I used to visit these to work on the main drives and various gearboxes for my old companies Philadelphia Gear and Falk. It was good to go back in time
Spent most of my life living in Duluth and Two Harbors.. Nostalgia came watching from my home in Wyoming.
I worked on most of these at Bay Ship during the 80s.
I worked on the last ship in 1980
My Dad was 2nd Mate on the Joesph H. Thompson..my sisters an I got to go on a week each year in the summer from Cleveland Ohio to Duluth Minnesota or from Huron Ohio to Dulth Minnesota an back..Thank you very much for this video the sound of the water an seagulls takes me back...memories...beautiful!
My grandfather and most of my uncles worked in the iron ore mines in and around Buhl Minnesota around the turn of the century until the early 1930s. My great grandfather was the mining superintendent of the Buhl mine. At one time Duluth MN had more millionaires than any city in the U.S.
The BARKER...grew up on the. Detroit river...seen everyone of them .most of my life...
Absolutely terrific footage! Thanks for sharing!
Would these vessels class as the largest motorized barges due to the nature of their work and environment????????
These truly amaze me. I'd love to see them in person. I can only imagine the work that goes into keeping these mammoths going.
Thank you Mark, wonderful, peaceful video...
Very well done indeed! thanks for all the hard work to pull this together. James R Barker is one of my fav's on the GL, esp her horn. Happy 2018! Cheers from south side of Lake Erie. Yeoman Jim, former Tin Can Sailor, USN
I love the whistle of the James R Barker
Having lived on Lake St Clair all my life I was always enthralled by the 1000 footers! So impressive! Can’t even imagine what it must take to captain behemoths like that! Thanks for a great video! Really enjoyed it!
Spent the summer on the St. Lawrence River, near Cape Vincent. Had many encounters in our boat, with these ships. Followed many around the back side of Carlton Island (NY) on their way to and from Lake Ontario. Very good video and audio recording. Thanks for no droning soundtrack and certainly, for using a camera mount.
I'm from Australia and am fascinated by these huge ships. My favourite is the Paul R. Tregurtha.
Pretty sure I've seen that one in person. I'm currently a couple hundred yards from lake superior have been most of my life
I’m from mn and have seen it multiple times. Great ships, fit for the Great Lakes
I remember the first time that the Edwin Gott came into Two Harbors. Beautiful sight. Awesome video with the lake sounds.
Great presentation made all the better with natural sounds! Thanks for sharing.
Enjoyed the video. I love watching Great Lakes ore containers. I got a 6 foot model of the Edmond Fitzgerald. I want a few more of the ore carrier models. One with an ore unloader. Thank you for sharing this video.
The size of those ships are amazing! great job, I love ships!
Best horn.. Barker. So nice.
American Century best looking.
Very nice video ship tour.
Thanks for posting. The background was nice to see too. Visited Duluth 2010 and was fortunate enough to see one of these monsters go thru the canal. I'm from NZ so great to see this footage. The lifting deck bridge is amazing too.
It’s called the Aerial lift bridge and is an iconic symbol of the Great Lakes shipping industry
Bravo ! Very well done !
Thank you for creating and posting such a fine video of the greatest ships on the Great Lakes !
SBF
Great work, thanks for your effort, and, for using a tripod and keeping natural sound.
Very impressive. really enjoyed watching. Had never seen the locks open and close. Thanks for the adventure.
Wow what a great video of frighters. I love to just watch ships go by on the lakes.
I remember seeing the Tregurtha, Gott and Speer. They use to sit in the bay off Port Dover, Ontario. They were huge and very neat to see sitting in the Long Point Bay!!
Wonderful video of these absolutely amazing ships. I personally watch those on Lake St Clair due where I live. Can’t get enough. Next step would be going along for the ride. Wouldn’t that be something. Thanks for sharing!
This the best video I have ever watched I love this video with all the horns
Thank you!
My favorite was the James Barker the two tone horn was cool and I favor ships with the taller bow, reminiscent of the forecastles on sailing ships.
Yeah I’m pretty fond of ol’ Barker’s horn.
@Jim Jessen ~ my cousin recently retired from years on Interlake ships on the Great Lakes. I asked him about the Barker horn and he said it is actually 2 horns, 1 in the bow and 1 aft and if they time them correctly you get that sound.
@@colleen3107 your cousin is mistaken, 2 horns next to each other, different tones and time
The Barker has a unique voice for sure.
Good to see that you build a ship using steel, labour and machinery from your own country,, regeneration of the money helps you to keep jobs and future skills,, dying out like they're in the UK good video,, from Belfast ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️good steel that lasted years,, buy cheap and buy twice
Unfortunately, there hasn't been an American-built laker since the early 1980s. And most (if not all) of the new Canadian lakers have been built in China. (Nothing against the Chinese.) That is due to change with a new ship being built in the USA over the coming year or two. But that's a temporary blip on the radar.
Absolutely FASCINATING!!! GREAT JOB!!! 💜
Very enjoyable post. Thanks!
Thank you for sharing these. I’m so glad that I came upon these videos. Fascinating to watch and learn from them. They are very calming for me especially when I experience my anxiety attacks. 🥰😊
Outstanding! Thank You! :)
I love going to Duluth to watch the ships! Thank you for this fantastic video!
I was a fitter at sturgeon bay ship building and was on all the 1000’ ships. The P.R.T is my favorite!!
Ships - always a pleasure to watch. Thnaks.
Awesome video...thanks for posting!!!
Great video !!! Have seen many of these on the St. Clair River, these are amazing ships to watch !!!
What a view! Thanks for posting this.
Nicely shot. Thanks for the video.
Awesome Video. Thanks for sharing
Amazing feats of engineering and almost ghostly in their movements
Beautiful video. Thank you!
WOW so awesome !!! Thank you very much
Thanks for sharing. Amazing boats
Love this! Thank you so much.
Great video. Thank you! I love the Paul Tregurtha and the Mesabi Miner. Duluth is a beautiful area.
I used watch the 'boats' near Marquette, Michigan where I was born.
I've always loved the sight and sound of these beasts the power of em is so epic fricking awesome!!!
Wonderful video. Love seeing all the ships. Beautiful video of all of them and love the natural sound.
Thank you!
Excellent video!
Great job putting this together. Love the horns!
wow, this is awesome. thanks for doing this. really nice work.
Great Video. Thanks for leaving original sound track !
Enjoyed the video. Great work !
I grew up in New Baltimore Mi, it always made our day when the freighters would honk at our little boat when we waved.
Good times
Good times
(Yes I remember the Edmond Fitzgerald, that affected Literally Everyone in the State)
It`s a great video! Thank you!
Beautiful. Thank you
great video, thanks
My favorite is James R Barker. It was the first ship I saw come in when I moved to Duluth. It's salute is incredible!
This is so relaxing. I can actually feel myself there now.
Watching these monsters come into the harbor is awesome in real life! Have also watched them get loaded with ore. Takes about 24 hours to do so.
Thank you for this great video--
Great video! Thanks!
Thank you for this channel. I am a recent transplant (4 years now) to the area and am transfixed by sights of theses behemoths. I cannot wrap my head around how these ships can float. The physics is beyond me. New subscriber. 👍
Welcome aboard!
Beautifully captured and superbly edited. I put this on the big screen and chilled out. Better than meditation. Thanks for creating this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video.. thanks much...
Love watching these ships at the Blue Water bridge connecting Port Huron to Sarnia.
@1Long2Short thanks for a weirdly relaxing and fascinating video. You guys, the train spotters, guys who film tornado sirens... it's an unusual hobby but I think its awesome someone bothers to take interest.
Charming production values, too. Reminds me of the kind of thing a local PBS station would play at 4am to fill dead air. I mean that as a compliment, I love that kind of stuff!
The Stewart J Cort is my favorite. One of a kind and the first on the lakes. Favorite horn Barker with the Paul R a close second.
I’ve seen four of these ships in person in the past year: American Century, Mesabi Miner, Walter J Mcarthy Jr, and Paul R Tregurtha. Personally, I think the Stewart J Cort looks the best out of all of them because it has the classic design. I wish they would build more ships like that cause they have a sort of elegance that the stern-Enders are lacking.
Great videography!!!