Great Lakes Shipping history, information and updates! My mission is to keep you updated on the news around the Great Lakes shipping industry, the info and interesting facts, and most importantly, to honor the lost sailors on the lakes with shipwreck videos. Many have sacrificed their lives on these lakes. They deserve honor and respect. R.I.P. all who have lost their lives on the Great Lakes.
East Texas has a fair amount of limonite deposits that range from 40 to 60% iron. The early settlers mined it to smelt in bloomer furnaces to make pig iron and used the limestone slag to make cement. During WW2 the War Department had a basic steel mill built here to produce bomb casings. Twenty miles to the east the WD built a TNT plant that was loaded into the aerial bombs 7 miles to the NE at an ammunition plant that was built out in Caddo Lake.
As you might think, the turnover to taconite was a lifesaver for northern Minnesota. Almost everyone had a "ranger" relative in and out of work. After the bust in timber, there would have been not much left for population.
i was on the algocape.......we raced the windoc all the way across lake erie......we were neck and neck but in the end we had the preferred line of approach and she had to cut back.....i went home in lock 8....a few hrs later my mother in law called the house and said there was a ship sideways across the canal and burning....i drove down and tried to get a look but there were cars for miles so i just went back to my ship further down the canal......im grateful our sulzer won that race
Little did Anyone know that the Isaac M. Scott, a little over 4 Years after Sinking the John B. Cowle, would meet its own end in Lake Huron during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. Also, The Goodyear ship was also mentioned. It’s crazy how Dangerous the Great Lakes can be, not only because of the Storms and the Currents, but also the Stupidity of Human Error.
Excellent video, Connor. Your sound effects gave me a wee bit of a start. I guess that when you were sailing in heavy fog back in the day, it wouldn't have hurt to blow your fog horn every now and then even if, you didn't think there was any danger nearby. The SS Kamloops, a Canadian freighter, sank in early December, 1927 near Isle Royale. This is a fascinating story but, I don't know much about it like, what it was carrying, where it was headed, from where, etc. I do know that, like most ships that go down in Lake Superior with crew aboard, they are still aboard.
Nice video! I really enjoyed it. Since I follow Duluth activity, I'd enjoy seeing you look into doing a video on the George G. Hadley and whaleback Thomas Wilson colliding just off the Duluth Canal in 1902. It's quite the story. In fact, it's rather amazing really.
A great video, Connor! Any chance you can do one of the Str. MARQUETTE, Cleveland -Cliffs colliding with the Str. SENATOR in Lake Michigan, October of 1929? A great story also worth your investigating. Thank you! 3L, 2S from Green Bay.
I come here just for the ships and to hear them sound their horns. I have a question or two. I'm too lazy to go look up the answer. When a ship is inbound, it sounds its horn with blasts of varying lengths then, there's an identical response. Who is doing the responding? What does it all mean? Now, a comment. I would have liked to hear a short description of each ship as it passed by including the name of the ship, when it was built, who owns it, what's its cargo, the size of the crew, etc. Props to you for standing there hours on end to get these recordings. :D
It would be nice if you gave proper credit to the photographers who took the photos you used in your video. Especially since you cropped out their watermarks in some photos.
True, I'll put credit to the photographers in the description. Of course I don't know who took each one so I'll do all the ones I know of. they weren't cropped out intentionally it was to fit it to the screen.
Outstanding video, Connor! You attention to detail was very impressive. Presque Isle is an island at the northern end of Marquette's upper harbor and is also a city park aptly named, "Presque Isle Park." There's a breaker wall that extends 2 miles into Lake Superior from that park to protect the upper harbor. For half the distance, it's concrete with iron capstans that look like marine bollards about every 50 feet. The rest was constructed of huge chunks of broken concrete with a light tower at the end of the wall that also holds a huge horn. The concrete chunks were a pain to navigate over. When it was really foggy, you could hear that horn all over the city. Nobody can go out on that breaker wall anymore, though. Access to the shore end of the wall is fenced off. In mid November of my second year at NMU, an unbelievable tragedy struck. Two best friends had met when they were about 4 years old and had stayed best friends all through school. They had decided to go to Northern Michigan U. together and be roommates. It had been freezing during the nights and hadn't been getting warm enough during the days to warm up the concrete. Water going over the wall had left a sheet of very smooth ice on the breaker wall. Both of these guys went out onto the wall. One of them slipped and fell into the water on the harbor side of the wall. Without thinking, his friend jumped in to save him. Witnesses on the shore called for help immediately but they reported not being able to see the two young men. Sheriff's and Coast Guard divers searched the upper harbor thoroughly but, could not find them. They finally gave up having to presume that the two had perished. Winter came and went. As the ice in the harbor began to break up, the two university freshmen were found in the ice next to the breaker wall. They were next to each other. They were only 18 years old.
Thanks! I was wondering what that was when I was at Marquette. That friend died in honor though trying to save his friend. R.I.P them both......I hope to see them in the kingdom.
@@ConnorTenold It was a shock for the university community. NMU is a kind of small school with an undergraduate enrollment that hovers between 7,000 and 7,500. The campus is beautiful with land on the shore. It was hard leaving there but, in good weather, it was an 8 1/2 hour drive home to the North Metro Detroit area. The young man diving into the freezing water to save his friend did it without any thought of self. It was totally out of love for his friend. We are blessed to have just one person like that in our lives outside of our family. I look forward to meeting them both when Jesus returns to gather his flock. I think it would be cool to meet you, too. If possible, before that time when Jesus comes again. Maybe it could happen sometime in a couple of years. The choice to meet and the timing of doing so would be completely up to you. Until then, I'll just keep watching your videos and doing these little chats that we do every now and then.
Nice job! Taconite Harbor actually operated into the 2000s. Among the dock's unique features was the ability to unload the entire train while in motion. The current Escanaba dock doesn't seem all that different in concept from the MERC coal dock in Superior.
That was the coal recieving part that operated into the 2000's I thought. I didn't realize that about the dock woth its unique feature so thanks for sharing!
Wow. Great video Connor. One of your best without question. Many people have no idea just how many were built and in many towns. Not many are operational today....but the ones that are help transport an unbelievable amount of ore.
Thank you! Certainly an overlooked part of history. Was really hard to find information on this, which just shows how forgoten these sadly are to many.
wow goes way back to 1800s thats when the ice age gave all the dinosaurs frostbite on their tails and the tails fell off causing to tip over and thats how they died
Not sure if it's what you're looking for, but I've been working on getting drone footage of different ships (though really only around the Soo Locks so far). If you'd want to try using some of that footage in a future video shoot me a message! (I'm not looking for cash, but a shoutout or something could be cool)
@Gator-357 Thanks for telling me! Because of this I was able to pronounce it correctly in another video I did on ore docks. I will say though, Grammar is different than pronounciation.
Great video! Kudos to the camera man for standing there for 12 hours waiting for these 5 ships to pass! :D I'm looking forward to the vidoe on the ore docks. It should bring back some memories.
The era (then and now) of _"don't recycle anything, just keep destroying"_ -> 2:50 because YOUR Taxes -> 0:54 pay THEIR Costs but THEY keep the Profits.
