Edmund Fitzgerald Steamship Model at Valley Camp Museum
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- View the detail of the Edmund Fitzgerald steamship model onboard the floating steamship museum, Valley Camp, in Sault St. Marie, Michigan USA. The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975, 15 miles from Whitefish Bay, during a horrendous storm at sea.
Even the model is HUGE !!
Wow. Absolutely incredible model. Extremely detailed. Thanks for sharing.
The Valley Camp is a must see! So much history and plenty to see in it.👍🏻👍🏻👌
Thanks for the video!👍
I enjoyed this very much.
I remember seeing it go through the Welland Canal in Port Colborne Ontario 🇨🇦 a few times when I was young living a few blocks away from lock 8 waiting for the bridge and the boats to pass by...she was a long one... So sad she's gone ...another one that I'll miss as well is the Mississauga from Port Dover gone to be dismantled she was an old coal burner that was converted to desiel not as big but had beautiful curves built in the states with it's riviets down the sides was a classic looking boat one that I will miss watching go by as well ...😢
Thanks for the comments and sharing those terrific memories. Do you recall seeing the, Cliffs Victory? She was my favorite b/c her stern was modified and extended past the smokestack which gave her a very unique look. We always new it was her even when she was miles away on the horizon, This was in Marquette, 1960s 1970s.
@@EdwardBennetts-k6x might have I've seen so many go by Port Colborne but the small old ones were very interesting with all the curves for the quarters and the back end with the inward and outward curves now there just squared off barges
@@EdwardBennetts-k6x at 0:52 is it just me or does the Fitz look like she's wearing a hat
@@shawlewis6492 No she's definitely wearing a hat. A fancy one too, I might add.
The classic straight decker
I was actually shock to know a big ship like this has a single propeller
That's the thing about Great Lakers lad.
The legendary "Fitz."
"Does Anyone Know Where The Love Of God Goes When The Waves Turn The Minutes To Hours"
The searchers all say she’d have made Whitefish Bay if she’d put 15 more miles behind ‘er
@@donnhate9081 and all that remains are the faces and the names of the wives, the sons, and the daughters!
God's love never goes it's always there
That’s cringy, dude.
Best detailed model I've seen. But looking at her design there is some flaws . Watching the Anderson on the anniversary going through a lock. She looked so low on the sides in calm water. Then with the Fitz being overloaded than she was designed for was the middle her weakest point did her hull crack with the stress of the waves and her cargo. I'm no expert it is something that I have noticed about these ships. Watching documentries and reading about the Fitz. If anyone has any thoughts would be great to hear.
These boats were actually quite flexible. I served on Lakers that had passageway tunnels under the main deck. In heavy weather you could stand at one end and see the watertight door at the other end move a couple feet.
I saw a video of a guy taking about the Fitz and he said her keel was actually loose. He said there was about a foot of space between her keel and her bottom plates. She was scheduled to go in for major work after the season. They would jam pieces of scrap plate in there and weld it just to keep her moving. She was a workhorse, always overloaded and undermaintained. Sadly, she never made it to the end of the season. The guy (I wish I could remember his name) said to this day, there are still plates at Frasier shipyard that say Edmund Fitzgerald on them, meant for her repair. I will see if I can find the video and post the link.
I found it! The guy is a tugboat captain named Tugboat Jim. He was good friends with Ronnie Roman, a crewman on the Anderson. The Anderson was the ship that was in the storm with the Fitz. He recounts Roman's story and talks about the Fitz and her keel.
ruclips.net/video/cnoZlZU2Mqs/видео.html
That's cool 👍
Whare can you get a replica model of the Big Fitz and build it yourself?
Man... I wish I can build a model like this one but I'm not lucky to find one online... help. I ALSO want to get a Arthur M. Anderson (Sister ship) model to build... anyone who knows where I can buy? Any price bellow 5,000 or 1,000? (USD)...
Also this scale is perfect for me. So yep... Anyone?
Yeah, I'm not sure one exists. There wasn't much information about this model display at the museum. It was mostly info about the real ship. I think the model was built from scratch. You can see another scratch version model of the Fitz, and get ideas here: ruclips.net/video/2lYdYPmw2_A/видео.html
@@EdwardBennetts-k6x YOU REPLIED HOLY MOLY THIS MADE MY DAY!
@@EdwardBennetts-k6x Thank you for replying 😄😁🙂
Sadly, in order for a ship to get a model based on it all it has to do is sink. Great video.
Maybe I'm missing something here? But that's not true. The Queen Mary and Queen Mary 2 have never sunk.
@@KyloBen2016 In general. Maybe I should have clarified.
@@Del-Canada Oh, ok. That makes a bit more sense.
Do you have any idea how many models of the Iowa class there are?
What scale is that in? Even in HO scale (1:87) a complete model would be about 9 feet long, and that doesn't seem to be that long, but it looks like the parts that are there are larger than HO scale. I'm thinking they may have left some of the middle out of it.
Good question, I'm not sure what the scale is. The model is on display at the Valley Camp Great Lakes Steamship Museum, in Sault Ste. Marie, MI USA. I'm guessing it's about 9 ft. long so that would be inline with 1:87 scale as you commented. In person, it looked about right, proportional to what I've seen of the Fitz in pictures, but I didn't take any measurements.
Emund frigzald sank in a storm killing all its crew
Очень длинный и узкий, немудрено что такой переломится пополам во время серьезного шторма если еще плюс к этому будет килевая качка
Yes, I agree. I think the ship designers of that time underestimated the power of the Great Lake and didn't account for how large the waves could become during a storm. So the long hull design of the Fitz (and other steamships) wasn't optimal especially when fully loaded with a very dense bulk material like iron ore. Thanks for posting!
Mehhhh, It's ok. I think it should be being loaded with taconite sitting in water for more effect. Maybe a horn that sounds too.🤔
You get on that,I'm sure they'll let you donate it for an exhibit. 😁
Why is everyone so obsessed with the Edmund Fitzgerald? Like honestly?
Yes that’s true..isn’t it great
It was a terrible shipping disaster and tragedy. All 29 hands on board perished in the storm they encountered while trying to make a final last season run of tacinnite alloys to a steel mill. The ship was under the command of ship master Earnest McSorley and as the time from setting off after being loaded with 26,000 tons of tacinnite she along with the ore carrier Arther Anderson were on Lake Superior that fateful night when two volatile air masses began raging the lake, churning it, battin both ships around, as both ship masters, Captain Earnest McSorley and Captain Bernie Jesse Cooperm, both with 40 years of sailing experience, total of 80 years, said that this is the worst seas they both have sailed in in their combined sailing experience sailing the Great Lakes region.
My opinion it's because of the song, sung perfectly by Lightfoot, makes the hairs on your arms stand up.
@Ben P I guess you dont know about these "lakes" they are as bad as the north sea..
@Ben P mind you she was battered with 30 foot waves
Slow down!!
Half of the hatch clamps aren't undone, not very accurate.