I was scraping out a living running in-system ore boats and garbage scows.

The first ore boat arrived in Conneaut in 1892 stimulating the interest of Andrew Carnegie.

Lamm spent his college summers working as a lumberjack in Oregon, a stockboy in New York, and helping out on an ore boat.

The Hulett can move along the dock to align with the holds on an ore boat.

He was the oldest of nine siblings who had to work on ore boats throughout the Great Lakes as a deckhand and deckwatch to fund himself through college.

The arrival of the ore boats is irregular, but the men in the small house beneath the dock may know when the next one is coming in.

As a result, the company has been lightening some of its cargoes by as much as 500 tons, so ore boats ride higher in the water.

It's a great place to have a drink and watch the hulking ore boats inch in and out of the harbor.

The depressing, decrepit ore boat didn't even have a niche anywhere aboard it to serve as a chapel.

Close enough to read the names of ore boats passing to and from Duluth-Superior Harbor.