Elmer Engman, our Duluth correspondent, reports that on May 30th, the PAUL R. TREGURTHA was sitting at the Port Terminal dock with a work barge from the Fraser Shipyard at the stern. Whenever the issue is repaired, she will go to Superior to pick up a cargo of coal.
Photos by Elmer Engman
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At 1013.5 feet, M/V PAUL R. TREGURTHA is the longest ship on the Great Lakes and Interlake Steamship Company’s flagship. She can carry up to 68,000 gross tons of taconite pellets or 71,000 net tons of coal. Her unloading system and 260-foot boom empty her five cargo holds in about eight hours. Built by American Ship Building Company at Lorain, Ohio, in 1981, as the WILLIAM J. DeLANCEY, she was renamed PAUL R. TREGURTHA in honor of Interlake’s Vice Chairman of the Board in 1990.
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Elmer Engman is a long time resident of the Duluth area. He started scuba diving in 1968, because of an interest in maritime history, and wrote the first dive guide for the area called, Shipwreck Guide to the Western Half of Lake Superior. He is a past board member of the SS Meteor Maritime Museum and the Lake Superior Marine Museum Association. He is also the founder of the Maritime history program called “Gales of November”. This will be the 38th of the program held on the second weekend in November.
