ABANDONED - Boat Graveyard - Ghost Ships - Matt's Rad Show 

I was the Chief Engineer on the Holly Ann from 1997 -2002. I am sad to see what became of her. She had a mind all her own.

Thanks for the video. An thanks for being as nice as you are. Best to you an yours.

It's rather sad that all these boats are left to rot after their years of service. At least they can still be remembered for all their hard work and what they contributed.

My Grandfather captained the J Medill back in the late 50's. I have quite a few pics of the boat with him in it.

I love boating and boats those old boat's are awesome days of our past... thank you for filming these lovely s

Mysteries. Of. The past. They give off eerie. Thoughts n feelings. Weird. Vibes. Like. Tales of the. Crypt

we'll that's cool, I love big old boats and ships. there is something mystical about them

It’s sad to see boats like that just sitting there going to rot. It’s just like old buildings. So sad. Some of them have lovely lines 👍👍

The Holly Ann was cut up for scrape in 2017. Thank you for showing her with her final grace.

i love tug boats so its sad to see them rust away.

Wish i could just live on one like the sea chief. Stunning

thanks for preserveing the ships that will never see the sea again

Cool yard! Love the old tow boats. Old dredge clam shell holes to let water out. I would love to have one of the old girls as a coastal cruiser repower it as its towing days are over and fuel isn't cheap. The fire boat should be in a park buried to its water line so kids can dream but some mother find fault in that. Teach your kid better if he/she gets hurt.

this is great, love the older boats. they have class and style that todays for got.

Still beautiful as they are !

Thank you! Your awesome video had me transfixed! I can’t help but to wonder of all the sea stories just waiting to be told on each of those boats!

You did a wonderful job , thank you 🙏🏽

Fascinating video. Came up on my feed just like that this morning! And yes, maybe that gate was left open by the spirits of those who once manned those now forgotten boats.

Thank you, someone has to document these bits of history for us all to see,and you are doing your bit.. Cheers :-)

Nice boat yard to see; thanks for video.

this is so cool just think every single ship in there had a history during their life time before ending in that place it would be great to see some of this cool ships restored and great video man like and sub

Man I'd love to have one of those

Fascinating

What great footage, Thank You

wow that guy was really cool to let you stay

I dig this !!!!!!!!! I live in California not for long hopefully but anyway if I tried entering s property Like that here oh lord !! I don’t know why but I’m drawn to old abandoned ships or planes. Etc etc .. lots of folks could care less but like you said ... it’s history they had crews and where someone’s pride at one time ... sad I looked up the name on the fire boat there is pics of it fighting a fire !!! Cool stuff man .. I’m Going to sub for sure

excellent video, very amazing to someone from Omaha, Ne, you dont see many boats here, thanks a million.

Great video, looks like a breakers yard that went bust, or projects where people have run out of cash, in the UK Tugs like those are used as houseboats

Thank You. Great job.

There is always something sad about old working boats, and the men who worked on them now maybe having passed on. The're like time capsule's of another era now also sadly gone

pretty cool stuff i love seeing the old graveyards but kinda sad

WOW! That one boat was a former Chicago Fire Department fire fighting boat that may have been stationed in the Chicago River near the Merchandise Mart. It looks really stripped and is kinda sad to see it here. But a great find, Matt! This ol' fire dog thanks you for sharing that with us!

wow, this I'd great. been waiting to see this footage from the UP road trip.

Right at 9:41 The boat Lake Explorer, That boat right there is a 82 foot Coast Guard boat. I was stationed aboard one, called the Pt Barrow. Really cool video thanks.

my grandfather and dad were a tugboat captain in NY harbor

I did the same kind of exploration on the old ferry boat Kalakala which was a favorite icon of pacific northwest. Same as you, when I approached the ship there were no keep off signs and there was a gangway to the ship so I went aboard and went throughout the ferry doing a lot of photography. Well, the vessels owner showed up and was screaming at me,' with the most disgusting horrible halitosis', to get off the ship. I told this mammal to put up a sign next time if you don't want anyone on your ship. I got in a huge amount of photography of the entire ship to include the engine room and the bridge. Sadly, this vessel has been broken up for scrap. Nice find and your brand of humor is great.

Awesome video Matt seeing old boats just in a field thats a rare find

such a relaxing video thank you keep up the good work.

Lake Explorer - on the dock at Basic Marine on March 26; it is the ex Coast Guard Patrol Boat, Point Roberts, built in 1960s. She was once used to recover the boosters from the Space Shuttles and spend most of her Coast Guard life on the east coast of Florida.

Too cool love it live it seen it abide by it peace out

Excellent ...cheers from Brazil

Thanks for the chance to see the boats. I would love to see them refurbished. I wonder what it would cost?

So cool, thanks for the video! It seems like if you wanted to have a boat, it would be much cheaper to restore one of those instead of building one.

So the chicago fire boat was # 37 Joseph Medill I believe it was used in the filming of the movie backdraft

There is a boat yard in Staten Island just like this.On the west side of the express way.

I can't believe it,A good video with GOOD music.

That's really neat you should come to this place right outside of savannah its somewhere in tybee island near the first light house

very cool

Thanks For The Uploadd

Thanks!

IDE love to have the money to get one and fix it up again, ill bet some of them were really great boats in there day. thanks Matt for sharing some history

I wonder if these boats could bought of the owners or governing bodies, if I lived there I would be making enquires for sure - ALAN Sheffield, England, UK

beard, trendy glasses, cant go wrong.

I'm certain there were plenty of pieces of pipe or steel laying around that you could have knocked him out with, dragged him underneath some shade and went on about filming for the rest of the afternoon while he took a nice nap...........

I would love to own a large boat like that and homestead it but for what it's worth in scrap metal and what it would cost to fix even if you were a welder and had yer own dry dock to make repairs probably cheaper to build a house. The average life span of a boat is about 30 years before every thing on the boat goes to shit with rust and corrostion and it's time consuming and dangerous to dismantle and scrap cheaper and safer to let them rot and sink then even to scrap and the reason why most of them don't have the prop and shaft is because that's solid copper or brass ! .it's the most valuable and easyist thing to remove for scrap. And cost a fortune to replace especially the big heavy ones ..

that's very cool.

The guy in the truck is probably a nice dude if he let you stay after explaining what happened. From his point of view he probably thought you were a scavenger looking to steal parts or metal. If he breaks those boats down for scrap for a living you can see why he'd pounce on someone wandering in to his property. Nice dude though.

the thankyou for your service made me so sad lol

Very interesting

the plants at the end are rosehip, break them open you can use the seeds as itching powder and nice boats sure enjoyed that! and the nice gent in the truck permission NEVER works with such places :(

At 8:30 I recognize the pilot of the Great Lakes freighter "Reserve" a 730 foot long Great Lakes ore carrier built in the 1950s.

Is their anybody out there that saw the picture of the, "WORLD DISCOVERER SHIP", that is in the Solomon Islands. The abandon ship is leaning on its side. I find this picture to be, REAL SPOOKY, I can't quite explain it. I think it would Cool to explore it.

SHIP GRAVEYARD PARK?!!!..... get some artists to arrange the old boats & paint them up! they could live in them on land in the park! add park benches & tables! the artists could maintain the park & vegetable gardens in a work-exchange system! add tipis & yurts to rent?..... it might bring TOURISTS!!!!

That coool

Judging by the way the barbwire is placed the intent wasn't to keep people out, but the boats in. No boats escaping that place.

The tug looks like it was built in the mid 40's as a USCG yard tug. Could have been the one named Chinook.

Sea Explorer was an 82’ Coast Guard cutter.

I thought I saw an old Coast Guard Point class cutter.

that was a wicked piece of film, i think the plant at the end was a dog rose not a tomato plant lol

The Lake Explorer I believe belongs to the EPA.

The fact that the men who commanded and crewed these boats made it back to shore is testament to the men, (and women!) of the sea of that era. There are ship and boat graveyards worldwide.

Why aren't adventurous souls hijacking these and taking to the seas.

Nice footage. I loved the effect of the fence whipping by. What do you use as a steady-cam?

Interesting, according to Google, the Erika Kobasic (built 1939) is still active!

How would one go to perchese a old boat for scrap price in a salvage yard like that for fixing up??..ive always wanted to homestead a boat !!

Scrap boats ? or waiting for a major repair and paint job..

Hello everybody if your reading this have a good day and remember "you were made on purpose for a purpose"

He must have been awful nice to let you stay and sight see as long as you wasn't there to scavenge or vandalize anyone else would have been an automatic trespass charge..you were lucky

I'm not suprised the guy got a bit shirty with you, that appears to be a working boatyard. The tug Holly Ann was a fully operational working tug just 8 years ago. "Laid-Up" for some of them, might be a better description than "abandoned" but I guess that wouldn't have resulted in many hits.. Some ships are laid-up for years, but never "abandoned". One day, one day.😉

dude that red fire department boat,you should go back and ask to buy it rent money is dead money,you could convert that into an awesome house boat,get the biggest outboard you can find and find a nice gunk hole some where

Cool

If I was to buy one of those it would be the holly Ann sea chief or the science vessel turn it in to a trawler

It's too bad you couldn't get him too tell you about the history of some of them.

The fireboat is from 1908/1909.

Whats cool is you can see pis of fire boat in its runing time

Why you closed the door?

All that iron ! Hmmm

Is this in Michigan? Would love to drive by and see if it's still there!

Too bad Chapter M Coast guard regulations croaked all these old tugs Old days you would repower and put back to work not in todays world of overregulation any tug older than the year 2000, on the coast guards hit list !

found some history about the tugboat you filmed in this video her name is SEA CHIEF and was built back in 1952 she was built at Avondale, La and the company that built her was Avondale Marine Ways, Inc. She really is such a beautiful boat for her age. If I had the money id by her fix her up and turn her into a beautiful home to live in.

Found another Abandoned Boat on another road trip! check out episode 3! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u6TCrb45-m8.html

just because there is no sign does not give you any special right to trespass inside and you are very lucky you are not in jail with a criminal record for trespass, [might interfere with employment = HINT]

This was really cool where did you find it

interesting

Very great exploration :D can you use "Call of Duty 4 - All ghilled up" Soundtracks? :)

These could be fixed up and made into small apts.. They have apt boats in California on land..

Siscowet is a lake trout.

3:14, Icebreaker bow?

I have watched the Chicago fire tug bounce around from port to port only to end up scrapped she was in great shape when taken out of service just a shame nobody cares till it's too late.

Gee, 6ft fence 3 rows of barbed wire doesn't give a hint of they don't want unauthorized people coming onto the property? I been in the same situation as the owner. I always had great respect for people that ask and have an honest intention and interest. For every innocent person there always others there to steal, take pics to bitch to the city about something, or just flat out vandals. So always ask, you may find yourself given access to pictures, history an inside look and a life long acquaintance. Or dont ask and you might find yourself held at gun point or attacked by a dog. I had 2 dobermans that cornered a guy who walked on property and ignored signs. He literally sh$$ his pants. Didn't know what was going on but heard all the barking and screaming. Owners will get the most mad when trespassers try to justify doing whatever they want on someone else's property. But they themselves would be enraged if someone just walked into their back yard or garage and started poking around just because the gate or door is open or cause they feel like it. When you ask you might find yourself getting to see things you only dreamed of.