That’s my favorite video of this.
The way the wind is here tonight in Michigan, I can not even imagine the power of wind on Lake Superior.
Now I have to go listen to a song...
These weeks, all I am worried about is the “Wreck of the Joseph Robinette Biden” and I pray it goes straight to Dave’s Jones Locker.
I started an election stealing song to this tune.
Does anyone know
Where all the votes go
When the software flips Trumps votes to Biden
RIP Mariners.
My condolences to their families and friends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=9vST6hVRj2A&feature=emb_logo
By Gordon Lightfoot, who is still with us...
Thank You for posting.
Thread about what you were saying today
Sad ending for a good ship and men. It’s a risk you take when you sail with a ship. Great Lakes or oceans, it is what it is. Ships, subs, or a dingy, when you’re out of sight of land Mother Nature and God own your world and your ass. RIP.
I’m in.
been to the light house
stayed the night
A cold and lonely way to die
God bless them all
I prefer this version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOwSaSl_PGk&list=RDTg6XpJbkevs&index=3
Good Lord I thought the song was older than 45 years
Thanks for posting this...I’ve always been interested in this tragedy. And to think that I was only 3 years old when this happened.
Watched the entire video. Then searched YT for a version with written lyrics. This singer has a strange accent and mumbles through a great deal of the song. Hard to believe he was a recording artist.
That said, after I understood the song/video I found it to be quite a good tribute to the men lost in that tragedy.
Two most haunting lines, imo....
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead....
And...
When the gales of November came early
I lived in Chicago at the time and I don’t remember the news. It must’ve been really important, but I was an involved 20 something butterfly.
I really don’t think even 20 somethings should be allowed to vote. Too flaky.
Thanks for posting.
The weather on Lake Superior ain’t looking to good right now.
Tenth Grade.
English class, studying poetry and music lyrics. This was my chosen song.
I forgot to bring the album with me to school that day, and had to read the lyrics. I don’t think I had the effect that Gordon Lightfoot would have had.
Big story where I grew up, in Cleveland Ohio.
There was a sinking just prior to the year 1972..or a few years before, that convinced the WHOLE dam class at the Marine Diesel engineering school to skip going out on the lakes.
I was one of them.
The Fitz broke her back on the caribou reef. That reef is at about 36 feet and the Fitz was fighting waves of substantial height...her draft loaded was about 27 feet if I remember right. She went right over and it hit bottom and split her hull. They started listing and it went down after three huge waves hit her.
The Fitz had a loose keel. They would drive plate in there and weld it in place to tighten it up. That thing should have been condemned.
Us old schoolers call the great lakes freighters, boats. Ships are the ones who ride the Oceans. The great lakes freighters have a round bows and more flat bottoms and wouldnt last long at all on the high seas. They are more like barges than anything. Matter of fact, they now have many older ones that they cut a “V” in the back and drive tugs up into that V to run them.
I should have went on the tow boats on the rivers. But like a stupid kid, I took to the woods. I’d be a rich man now days if I would have done that. If only I could go back in time.
If any of you have ever seen the big lake at it angriest, you’d know why these guys take their lives in their hands every time they go out.