Mesabi Miner Arriving for Winter Layup in Sturgeon Bay, WI. With Salute! 

It's so easy to forget just how massive these ships are until you see them come home! WOW!

First trip to sea late 70s was up the Great Lakes on the MV Federal Clyde. I was only 16 and a galley boy. Now I’m nearly 60 and chief 👨‍🍳in the Merchant Navy. Sadly all the British ships and shipping companies have all gone. Miss the good old days of the cargo boats tramping around the world. Had some great runs ashore in some fantastic places. ❤️ my job & the 🌊🌊🌊 👨‍🍳👨‍🍳😉

What has always amazed me, is the silence of the giant bow slipping thru the icy water. Welcome home and rest to the boat and personal

Great camera work. You made me and my buds day. Thanks for posting. Ships and trains...best toys in the world.

You know it’s a big ship when it takes 4mins to pass you 😂

I loved the guy that said “ARE YOU GOING TO THROW US SOME CANDY”.

THANK YOU!!! i just love watching. Those folks are so brave.And you to be out getting this footage. 🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🙋‍♀️

Great to see and experience when we can’t in person, thanks for posting!

That was wonderful. At one point because of the movement of the ice along the ship it appeared as if you were moving along, but not quite as fast as the ship. Great optical illusion.

She spent last off season here in Erie at DonJon shipbuilding with the Presque Isle. I'm sure it's nice for them to really be home again.

Gotta love the "horn"! One of the best sounds on earth! Great video. Up-close and personal. It's amazing how "steel" floats.

THANK you so much for this inspiring video!! I love how people were saying "Good morning!" It was probably below 0F but here all all these folks watching and waving. Cool. Very cool.

From the UK: This is on my bucket list of things to do when hopefully one day I can visit the wonderful land of the United States of America. Thanks for the film!

So cool to see these massive beasts up close like this, literally right in front of you! 😳

Great ships, brave crews, necessary business. Thank you Mesabi Miner.

Great video. Love those great lake ships. I can't believe how big they are. Wish I lived close by to go see them.

i know very little about these ships but seeing them up close, taking in how GIGANTIC they are, fills me with a sense of awe. so majestic. they bring tears to my eyes...😳😪👏🤗

So elegant as she glides over the water.

I really enjoy watching the Great Lakes shipping in the Winter … from Southern Arizona! It reminds me of what the Real World is like 😎😁. I have roots in Northern Indiana, and spent some time around Lake Michigan, especially!

Great video! Brings me back home to Wisconsin!

I had the opportunity to work on her in dry dock,erie,pa in the early 90's..quite a site up on dry dock blocks,underneath her hull..unbelievable amount of steel from that perspective..!!!

3:37 Seeing that Port lamp brought back wonderful memories of serving on a Frigate in the ‘60s and enjoying every minute I was onboard👍👏 One of the experiences I will NEVER forget‼️

Thanks for posting! Awesome to be that close 😲. Happy winter break to the Captain and crew!

What an amazing sight! Thank you for posting your excellent video.

Lovely footage!! Her air horn has great bass and resonance... Many a cruise ship would be pleased if their horns sounded like that!!

Super.Happy voyage, greetings from the Czech Republic.

Great video. It really brings home the enormous size of these lake freighters. 1004 feet long! For comparison, a Nimitz Class carrier is 1092 feet.

What an impressive ship !

Awesome video. Really felt like being there. She is the ship of my family's history of being iron ore miners. It is very nice that she was named in the honor of all those that pull the iron ore out of the ground to be shipped down to the smelters. Many thanks to the captain and crew for taking such good care of her. See you next season.

once as a young man while waterskiing on the St.Clair river, i went between a north and a southbound sip. man they looked huge!!

So quiet and graceful.

Living about an hour to the South I think I'm going to make a trip up to sturgeon Bay to go look at these great ships.

DANG! That sure is one big fat canoe!

What a giant, wow. Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪

Witht he river water moving gives the illusion that the shore is moving, pretty cool

Wow!! I love that view from the lighthouse! It's gotta be my favorite! If I lived there, I would be there all the time, awesome video! Thank you!

Nice video!!, and an extra Great job, and Thank You for not recording vertically like the other people.

Its always interesting to me to see the water filling back in as they push through. I live near the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach in SoCal, and we get much larger ships than these, but being its open ocean and not an enclosed area you don't realize just how much water an object of that size displaces, even empty. It's really amazing to watch the water level drop, then flow back in behind it, almost like a mini Tsunami.

Nice video, Thanks so much!!!! That is one HUGE boat. WOW!😮

So much for ice fishing that channel. 😄

I could watch these videos all day long...

Welcome home. Good job

Great Camera Work! Thanks for doing the video's!

I saw the Mesabi Miner in the St. Clair River several years ago near the Bluewater Bridge. It is a massive ship and has a great crew! Glad all made it home safely for a well deserved rest! .🙂🙂

I can't believe how quiet they are. Great video

That is pretty. I like watching the ships glide by.

Great video footage! Shows size well.

That is just too cool! I love seeing them that close!

Can't believe summer is already gone. Great video.

HOLY muffin that thing is a titan!!!

that camera angle is so good it makes the people on land feel like they are moving and not the ship

Great video! Thanks for posting :)

So cool I’d love to see this up close in person!!,

It is absolutely amazing what man can create and destroy.

Fantastic video. Amazing how close you can get to these ships at the canal. Looking forward to the next chapters you will post on the Miner. On my bucket list to visit !! )) Thanks so much for posting for those of us who follow these "footers" from the UK !!

I would love to be able to get on board one of those ships! They fascinate me. ❤🚢👍

That is a very tight canal, no margin for error

That was nice thank you very much Randy from Monroe Michigan

Wow, what a beauty. Enjoy your rest guys. See you in the Spring.

Man that is awesome!! Love to see more. Thanks for the video!

Geweldige film.. M'n droom is ook om daar te zijn voor paar weken.. Dank je.. Groet uit Nederland

Seriously impressive 👍

I saw a few while living in Marquette Michigan. These ships are massive!

Wow this is amazing thank you for sharing these

Thank you for showing….amazing stuff

Absolutely Amazing!!!!! 🚢

Wow I love the horn

Wow! Love this! Thanks for sharing.

Damn impressive.

Super cool to watch!

An excellent video. Thanks!!

She's gorgeous. Enjoy your winter guys! 🌹⚓

Great video! Thanks and best regards from Germany!

Thanks for a nice video!

Amazing, I could land a plane on that deck. Thanks!

Wow. Amazing!

Great video from northern Ireland ☘️☘️☘️ i work repairing ships,here in Belfast,,at Harland and Wolff,,

Great Video! Thanks

That is a serious shop.

Wow. Insane 😍🤩

Echt großes Schiff. 👍

Super video! 👍👍📹🛳️⛴️

Mesabi is my favourite girl....❤️

very cool

Excellent prop thrashing

Omgs that ship is massive!!!..my dad sailed on the Great lakes in the 1960's on a British tramp freighter.

МОЩЬНАЯ МАШИНА !

Good to come in now before the deep freeze comes at the end of the month, making 12" thick ice on all of the lakes.

Lovely condensation trail out of the stacks

Cool video thanks

Thanks I’m in Cleveland we get to see some big boats now and then

Dang! At 1000 ft the driver is a quarter mile behind the front of the boat !

Nice video!👍☘️

beauteous

Amazing is harder enter without tug and also the snow !!

Great vid. I worked in the Fincanteiri ship yard a couple of times for someone who employed me to set up some deep well pumps for the OEM. I went over to the Tug Museum but never down the other end of the channel where it looks like this ship entered from. I'm retired now but, if I could over again???

Big ass boat

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That’s how you clear the channel!

That is one ĺong shìp!😮