Thank you for this wonderful video

Edward l Ryerson voice❤❤❤❤

Would it have been easier to deliver the mail once the ship is docked?

2:00 that was kind of wild. Good job!

Thank You J.W. Wescott... When I sailed years ago; my mail & supplies reached me intact....

I wonder if the guy in the rowboat was getting hazardous duty pay to get up alongside those freighters in that rowboat

Growing up my friends and I would ride our bikes down to Riverside Park and watch the JW Wescott deliver the mail to the ship's. Great video thank you.

High time this is done with a drone.

Thanks for the Maritime History and For Sharing, Be Safe and Peace!

Thanks for sharing this great video. Makes me wish I was still sailing the seven seas!

Awesome history, thank you very much. Sure would not of wanted to be the guy in the row boat? He earned his money as all of the older generation did. Thank you again.

Wow! I would love to do that!

Holy cow!!

Fantastic 🎎✨🎉🎏

This is an awesome way to deliver mail to ships.🇺🇲🛥️🛥️🇺🇲

Good job Captain💪🏼💪🏼

GREAT SHOW !

So she was over loaded, beat up badly in need of major repairs, pushing hard in following seas, lost his radar completelyblown off the ship, lost half of his communication antennas, 2 vents gone, starboard rail was down, caught in possibly the worst storm ever on Lake Superior, was way to close to 6 fathom soal, using charts from 1919, and hit by 2 Rouge waves in succession, (those two wave were the tallest Bernie had ever seen. The timing from those lifting his stern nearly out of the water and hitting the Fitz was the exact time to put her out of sight and off the radar)😮 taking on water with only one pump running for unknown reason! Dont forget the way those pellets are shaped easily could have plugged half of the screen on the old style pump inlets on the Fitzgerald. Could that be why only one pump was pumping out water that night? If you think it was aliens, some triangle, or any other supernatural reason she went down instantl my friends, look again. The captain was in a hurry due to his wifes being admitted into a nursing home the day before, and it was the last unscheduled run of the year. He was known to have pushed her hard, setting various records and had several collisions during his time a master of the Fitz. To me its obvious and it should be to you as well what sank the Mighty Pride of the fleet, like so manybyimes when something like this happens it a combination of several things, not just one that make it happen. But if hed have slowed down staying closer to Bernie Coppers ship, with sight and his radar, Mc Sorely wouldnt have been pushed up north to close to the shoals, breaking her keel on those rocks and there by causing the water to flood the cargo holds. That was the reason the Fitz took the nose dive, hitting the bottom, cracking in half when it hit driving the bow over 20 feet into the lake bed. She just couldnt float any longer! Gordon lightfoots song will immortalize the Fitzgerald forever, its haunting and a appropriate send off. R.I.P. All those who went down on the Great lakes.

0:36 Fast Eddie showing his horn off

I think my ears went to heaven ❤

I went to High School with Capt Sam at Holy Redeemer High in Southwest Detroit.

i was born in 71 and I am glad I came across this video on what happened to the Edmund Fitzgerald

She was moving under her own power??

Freshwater icebreakers dont have to be as heavy as the ones in the arctic

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Arthur M. Anderson’s and William Clay Ford’s were brave that night.

The only one that sounds mightier is the James Barker bark.

Tyler Mac yes this great laker is from Canada 🇨🇦

My dad was Captain of this ship…Captain Dudley J. Paquette

This is the Belle Isle on the Detroit River LOL I was lost there in Florida for 20 seconds , coffee time now

That hula girl at 10:44 is still in the pilot house as of 8-22-2023; toured the 83 today. Great experience!

Now that's how you get it done. Between the civilians and boat crew, that boat was underway in less than two minutes from the time he hit the water. Back at the dock seven minutes after he splashed. 👏👏👏

18K views and only 94 thumbs up....C'MON MAN this is good stuff !

Thank God that the woman and the girl saw him fall and went to get help.

Dude looked at death in the face and death flinched.

It’s impressive to get this much video of what happened.

Well done. So wonderful you all were able to rush out and rescue him. 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Any follow up on this?

WOW

Thank you to all involved in this rescue. I hope the worker who fell is all right.

Bravo Westcott & kudos to those who informed the crew.

Also a big thanks to the boy and lady who alerted the crew of the fall...😄😄😄😄

Great work!

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Wow,i hope he's ok !That was scary !😮

That guy needs to play the lottery every week from now on!!!!!

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Congratulations for the video. I love boats and these videos are great reference sources for model building. I'm building a model of the JW Westcott II 1/16 RC. Subscribe to the channel to follow this and other constructions. Thank you very much.

Congratulations for the video. I love boats and these videos are great reference sources for model building. I'm building a model of the JW Westcott II 1/16 RC. Subscribe to the channel to follow this and other constructions. Thank you very much.