50 Great Lakes Ship Salutes - Loud Horns in Action!

This video compiles salutes from 50 different lake freighters that I recorded during my visits to Duluth and Superior. I created this video as a celebration of hitting 10,000 subscribers here on YouTube and as a “salute” to everyone who has watched and supported my channel over the past seven years. Thank you!

There are two main types of salutes you'll hear in this video. The "captain's salute" is a greeting that consists of one long and two short blasts of the horn. The "master salute" is a similar greeting, but consists of three long and two short blasts. While the master salute was often thought of as a more formal salute used for special occasions, we see captain's use both types of salutes interchangeably these days. Many of the salutes presented here were answered by the Aerial Lift Bridge which spans the Duluth Shipping Canal. As I didn't want this video to contain 40 or more return salutes from the bridge, I decided to only feature a few of the bridge salutes as examples.

The actual number of ship salutes in this video is greater than 50, as some ships are shown saluting more than once. All salutes featured in this video were recorded Duluth, Minnesota or Superior, Wisconsin between 2020 and 2022. A compilation of salutes from 35 lake freighters recorded between 2015 and 2019 was previously uploaded on my channel in late 2019. It can be viewed here:    • 35 Lakers Saluting! Great Lakes Ship ...  

If you are looking to find specific ships, time stamps are included below to help you skip to your favorites.

0:00 Paul R. Tregurtha
0:32 Philip R. Clarke
1:07 American Mariner
1:40 Algoma Discovery
1:59 Whitefish Bay
2:25 Edwin H. Gott
2:59 Mark W. Barker
3:22 Burns Harbor
3:47 Samuel de Champlain-Innovation
4:12 James R. Barker
4:59 Algoma Innovator
5:24 Presque Isle
5:47 Walter J. McCarthy Jr.
6:10 Lee A. Tregurtha
6:33 Atlantic Huron
7:12 Manitoulin
7:41 Indiana Harbor
8:02 Mesabi Miner
8:25 John D. Leitch
8:52 Cason J. Callaway
9:26 American Century
9:51 Frontenac
10:13 John J. Boland
10:34 Arthur M. Anderson
11:02 Algoma Transport
11:24 Rt. Hon. Paul J. Martin
11:44 Defiance-Ashtabula
12:21 Stewart J. Cort
12:46 Cuyahoga
13:23 Wilfred Sykes
13:51 American Integrity
14:19 Hon. James L. Oberstar
14:41 Algoma Intrepid
15:21 Victory-Maumee
16:02 Edgar B. Speer
16:22 H. Lee White
16:47 Herbert C. Jackson
17:10 Michipicoten
17:35 Spruceglen
18:15 Great Republic
18:43 Clyde S. Van Enkevort-Erie Trader
19:07 John G. Munson
19:40 American Spirit
20:14 Kaye E. Barker
20:38 Alpena
21:11 CSL Tadoussac
21:35 Dorothy Ann-Pathfinder
21:57 Dirk S. Van Enkevort-Michigan Trader
22:21 Saginaw
22:56 Joseph L. Block

If your favorite lake freighter isn't included here, they either didn't visit the Duluth-Superior area in 2020-2022 or I missed seeing them if they did visit. Also, there were several ships that I did capture on video over the past three years that unfortunately did not salute. Hopefully I will capture salutes from them in the coming year.

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