Str. Lee Tregurtha

Missabe Railroad's Duluth Docks. Now Kaye E. Barker. (Thanks, NIN) I love Duluth. Camera: Minolta Freedom 100

LS&I Dock, Marquette. The ship in the background is Lee A. Tregurtha. 1990, I believe. Camera: Minolta 110 Zoom SLR

My favorite laker, under the Blue Water Bridge....

S/S William Clay Ford--once Walter A. Sterling, now Lee A. Tregurtha--passes under the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge on a grey August day in 1988. We were in Duluth to attend the annual convention of the Missabe Railroad Historical Society. The Ford had been loading at the DMIR docks earlier in the day--I have more photos--and we made a point of being at the Duluth Ship Canal when she left for points south. Notable: This is the second ship to bear William Clay Ford's name and is not the ship whose pilot house overlooks the Detroit River at the Dossin Museum on Belle Isle. Camera: Minolta Freedom 100

August of 1988, at the Duluth Ship Canal. This ship, known as Lee A. Tregurtha since 1989, has had a long, complicated, and delightful career; see the Boatnerd site's writeup for a summary. This is my favorite ship on the Lakes. The Rouge Steel fleet had a terrific paint scheme; Tregurtha's current (Interlake/Lakes Shipping fleet) paint job looks comparatively dowdy.