35 Lakers Saluting! Great Lakes Ship Horns in Action

In celebration of five years of this channel and reaching 1000 subscribers in 2019, I wanted to upload a thank you "salute" to all of my supporters here. Therefore it seemed appropriate to create a video featuring 43 salutes from the horns of 35 Great Lakes ships, recorded between 2015 and 2019. I selected some of my favorite salutes from each ship to appear in this video, including at least one representative salute from each ship that I have good audio and video for. For a few ships, I included two salutes, especially if there was any variation between the sounds of the salutes. I also didn't include any saltwater ships in this video, since I wanted to focus just on the lakers this time around.

Which ships have the best sounding horns? Let us know in the comments section below!

Most of the footage was shot in the Canal Park area in Duluth, Minnesota, except where noted below. I included return salutes from the Aerial Lift Bridge for a few of the clips featured here, but didn't include it for all of the clips (as that would have been a bit repetitive). Also, a small disclaimer... while most of the audio matches with the video when it was recorded, I did shift the audio slightly on some of the clips so a good view of the ship was on the screen while the salute is being heard. For two of the clips, I pulled audio from other recordings I made of the same ship, since I didn't have good audio and video on the same recording.

If your favorite laker isn't represented here, it's only because I don't have video of that ship that features a salute (yet). I hope to expand my library of recordings and capture many more lakers in the coming years. If you enjoy the recordings here, please be sure to check out the videos on the rest of my channel. Many other ship videos from the Duluth-Superior area are featured on this channel, including longer videos of the clips presented here.

Below is a listing of each ship, with the time stamp. Click on the time stamp to skip ahead to see and hear that ship. Thank you for watching!

0:00 Cason J. Callaway
0:34 John J. Boland
0:53 Lee A. Tregurtha
1:14 American Spirit
1:31 Michipicoten
1:47 H. Lee White
2:05 Edgar B. Speer
2:21 Great Lakes Trader
2:39 Kaye E. Barker
2:56 American Integrity (Two Harbors, MN)
3:13 John G. Munson
3:28 Walter J. McCarthy
3:47 Roger Blough (Superior, WI)
4:04 American Mariner
4:20 Mesabi Miner
4:36 Algoma Discovery
4:56 Lee A. Tregurtha
5:13 Erie Trader
5:28 Cason J. Callaway
5:49 Indiana Harbor
6:12 Rt. Hon. Paul J. Martin
6:27 Great Republic
6:43 Baie Comeau
7:00 Arthur M. Anderson
7:32 James R. Barker
8:06 Roger Blough (Superior, WI)
8:22 American Century
8:40 Herbert C. Jackson
9:06 Philip R. Clarke
9:22 American Mariner
9:37 CSL Laurentien
10:05 Alpena
10:29 Presque Isle
10:47 John G. Munson
11:08 Burns Harbor (Superior, WI)
11:42 Hon James L. Oberstar
11:56 Joseph L. Block
12:13 Stewart J. Cort (Superior, WI)
12:29 Saginaw 12:29
13:01 Paul R. Tregurtha

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