The Weirdest Boats on the Great Lakes

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  @RailroadStreet · 3 years ago (edited) · pinned

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• PB

  @pbyguy7059 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Started watching this because the boats &nbsp;looked cool in the thumbnail and then all of a sudden you&apos;re talking about these guys called Colby, Hoyt and Wetmore and I&apos;m like, &quot;&apos;this is going in a weird direction, those are all the names of streets in my town.&quot; And then you said, &quot;...Everett, WA...&quot; and it turns out this is actually the origin story for the city I live in. Wild.

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• WA

  @wazza33racer · 3 years ago

  Later research discovered, that a submersible bulk carrier, uses half the energy to propel through the water than a conventional ship design. &nbsp;These whale backs were in some ways, very close to that concept.........

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• MA

  @markpospichal1309 · 3 years ago

  The whaleback The Thomas Wilson, loaded with iron ore, was run over by another ship and sunk just outside the Duluth Mn harbor in the early 1900s. Normally currents and wave action keep the water so murky that divers can only explore the wreck by feel. One winter in the early 1990s, the lake froze over and the water cleared enough for divers to photograph the wreck. I remember there was a feature article in the sunday paper on it. I&apos;m pretty sure anyone interested should be able to find it because it would be archived.

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• CL

  @Cloverlea-47 · 3 years ago

  Eeeeey, I spent like 6 years working as a tour guide on the SS Meteor! They were really cool ships! Random fun fact: that ship still has about half a tank of bunker C fuel oil in its tank because the process of removing it from such a unique situation is so specialized and expensive no-ones ever been able to drum up the money for it!

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• GA

  @gabrielf2432 · 3 years ago

  I love the Whalebacks! &nbsp;Being from Northwestern Wisconsin, I highly recommend touring the SS Meteor in Superior if you ever get the chance; the last of the whalebacks, it&apos;s now a museum ship and well worth it.

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• JE

  @JeffBilkins · 3 years ago

  The history of the Great Lakes is such a specific ecosystem, like a remote valley or island with regular things adapted to the local conditions.<br><br>Anyway, reminder there is a video on the similar Hulett Unloaders on this channel.

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• AY

  @ayayaybamba3445 · 3 years ago

  as some who has been playing world of warships for the better part of a decade now, I can confirm that the stuff the art department puts out is indeed the best part of the game.

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• RO

  @robertpearson8798 · 3 years ago

  I’m old enough to remember a couple of these ships being tied up in the harbour here in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in the 1960’s. The John Ericsson was offered to the City of Toronto to be used as a maritime museum but the offer was refused. It was then offered to Hamilton which accepted it and tied it up in a lagoon not far from my home for a short while. The funding never materialized and it was eventually scrapped.

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• ST

  @steffenrosmus9177 · 3 years ago

  No wonder that they came up with this design, an old skipper on the great Lakes with 20 years sailing the seas and another 15 the Great Lakes told me that the &nbsp;weather conditions &nbsp;on the Great Lakes &nbsp;could be as worse than on the Pacific in the cape Horn region.

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• JO

  @joerivanlier1180 · 3 years ago

  I am shocked the story didn&apos;t include one going turtle.. I was so ready for that to be the death of these things as boiancy just reaches a top at the freeboard. Those ship designers did a pretty good job undoing a new guys lack of understanding vessels

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• CA

  @cartmanrlsusall · 3 years ago

  It seems like a good idea it&apos;s basically a semisubmersible,when you are dealing with storms and rough water a boat or barge that let&apos;s the waves and wind roll off its decks seems ideal

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