Mick Hartley

From Boatnerd, a website devoted to lake freighters, the huge bulk carrier vessels that ply the Great Lakes (via):

 
[Photo: Travis Chadwick]

Original here – "Great Lakes Trader unloading stone at the Cutler stone dock, Superior, WI, Dec. 6, 2009": a past photo of the week.

There's a huge selection of photo galleries. Don't miss the sinking of the Algoport.

And here's Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", about the freighter which went down in a storm on Lake Superior in November 1975, in the most famous Great Lakes shipping tragedy, with the loss of all 29 of the crew.