M/V PAUL R. TREGURTHA was refloat­ed by The Great Lakes Tow­ing Com­pa­ny Tugs KENTUCKY and MINNESOTA under the com­mand of two Duluth vet­er­an Tow­ing Com­pa­ny Cap­tains, Mar­tin Light­ner and George LaTour, on Sat­ur­day evening, Sep­tem­ber 20th, after the loaded ves­sel went aground at approx­i­mate­ly 3:15 p.m. in Duluth, Min­neso­ta Sat­ur­day afternoon.

The Inter­lake Steamship Com­pa­ny Lak­er, M/V Paul R. Tre­gurtha, was built in 1981 and can car­ry up to 68,000 gross tons of taconite pel­lets or 71,000 net tons of coal. As the longest ves­sel cur­rent­ly in oper­a­tion on the Great Lakes, she is the unof­fi­cial “Queen of the Lakes” at 1,013.5 feet.

The Great Lakes Tow­ing Company’s Full Ser­vice Lakes-Wide Tow­ing Con­tract, offers lakes-wide com­pre­hen­sive tow­ing ser­vice with read­i­ly avail­able “round-the-clock” tugs and crews. In addi­tion to har­bor ser­vices, The Com­pa­ny pro­vides emer­gency assis­tance to ves­sels that are wrecked, dis­abled, or in dis­tress on the Great Lakes. No claim for sal­vage under the mar­itime laws is made by the Tow­ing Com­pa­ny for emer­gency ser­vices pro­vid­ed under the Company’s Contract.

Pho­to Cred­it: Dawn M. LaPointe, RadiantSpiritGallery.com