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The vessel was christened April 25, 1981 as the William J. DeLancey for Interlake Steamship Co., Richfield, OH. The large self-unloader was built for Interlake’s customer Republic Steel and was named in honor of its Chairman. A slight man with a scruffy beard, he may be the filthiest crew member aboard the 1,013-foot Paul R.
Tregurtha, a coal-hauling freighter that spends most of its time between Wisconsin and Michigan.
The Free Press spent a week aboard the boat ending Sunday, chronicling freighter life, watching how the men and women aboard earn their living.
The cooks on board the Tregurtha don't even want Perkins in their galley until he scrubs his hands and arms up to the elbows, ridding himself of coal grime and black grease — or as much as possible.
On December 18, 1997; the vessel damaged both her # 1 port and starboard ballast tanks while docking in Cleveland. Crew members get their own cabins. You can't provide for your family.
Wi-Fi keeps them in touch except for dead zones in the middle of the lakes that can lose a signal for most of a day. He had been with Interlake Steamship Co. since 1973 serving on their vessels Harry Coulby, Mesabi Miner, Herbert C. Jackson, Elton Hoyt II, Charles M. Beeghly, James R. Barker, and Lee A. Tregurtha.
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Voyage Data
| Predicted ETA | |
| Distance / Time | |
| Course / Speed | |
| Current draught | 7.1 m |
| Navigation Status | Under way |
| Position received | 3 hours ago |
| IMO / MMSI | 7729057 / 366904940 |
| Callsign | WYR4481 |
| AIS Type | Cargo ship |
| AIS Flag | United States (USA) |
| Length / Beam | 309 / 32 m |
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Vessel Particulars
Not in Service since 2022
| IMO number | 7729057 |
| Vessel Name | PAUL R.
TREGURTHA |
| Ship Type | Self Discharging Bulk Carrier |
| Flag | United States of America |
| Year of Build | 1981 |
| Length Overall (m) | 308.76 |
| Length BP (m) | |
| Beam (m) | 32.00 |
| Draught (m) | |
| Depth (m) |
| Gross Tonnage | 36360 |
| Net Tonnage | |
| Deadweight (t) | 69172 |
| TEU | - |
| Crude Oil (bbl) | - |
| Gas (m3) | - |
| Grain (m3) | |
| Bale (m3) | - |
| Ballast Water (m3) | - |
| Fresh Water (m3) | - |
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Management
| ISM Manager | - |
| P&I Club | - |
| Classification Society | |
| Last Survey | - |
| Next Survey | - |
Disclaimer
PAUL R TREGURTHA current position and history of port calls are received by AIS.
Technical specifications, tonnages and management details are derived from VesselFinder database. In open water, there's an autopilot, but someone always has to be on watch. Perkins descended ladders into the belly of the ship, below the massive cargo hold, to monitor a conveyor belt as it unloaded about 34,000 tons.
It's a process that takes about eight hours, much faster than the old days, when such boats were unloaded from the dock with a sort of shovel contraption.
Perkins watched as a layer of the black chunks whizzed by.
Interlake allows family visits to cut the stress of being away. In the engine room, earplug-wearing workers constantly monitor the performance of the massive diesel engines, the shed-sized generators and other equipment below deck. … My wife deserves better than that, so that's why I come up here and I do this."
He and the other men and women who work aboard Great Lakes commercial freighters make good money devoting months of every year to these boats.
The current position of PAUL R TREGURTHA is at Great Lakes reported 3 hours ago by AIS. The vessel is en route to the port of Burns Harbor, United States (USA), sailing at a speed of 13.1 knots and expected to arrive there on Jan 1, 18:00. She then established a lower lakes record by loading 50,239 net tons of coal from Ashtabula to Consumers Power, becoming the largest cargo loaded on the lower Great Lakes.
A deckhand will use a deck crane to pull those lids when coal is filling the boat.
In the pilot house high above the water, mates and wheelsman help navigate around the clock. The coal gets there through gates that are opened at the bottom of the cargo hatches, which are above where he works.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Cornell Univercity, 1958; Master of Business Administration, Harvard University, 1963.
Career
Contractor, vice president, Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company, 1969-1971; vice president finance, Moore McCormack Resources, Inc., Stamford, Connecticut, 1971-1973; executive vice president finance, Moore McCormack Resources, Inc., Stamford, Connecticut, 1973-1978; president, chief operating officer, Moore McCormack Resources, Inc., Stamford, Connecticut, from 1978; president, Chief Executive Officer, chairman, Moore McCormack Resources, Inc., Stamford, Connecticut, 1987-1988; chairman, co-owner, Mormac Marine Group, Inc., Stamford, since 1988.
He works in a tunnel where he can see the coal filtering down through the gates like water to an unplugged drain. Mr. DeLancey was in attendance and participated in the launching of his namesake.
The large self-unloading bulk carrier is powered by 2 Colt-Pielstick model 16PC2-3V-400 V-16 cylinder, four stroke, single acting diesel engines each rated at 8,560 b.h.p.