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The Lee A. Tregurtha has a long past with many names. Built in 1942 as an ocean tanker and used in the Atlantic to refuel allied boats in the Second World War, she was awarded two battle stars for service in the war and was decommissioned in 1946. Her battle ribbons are displayed on the boat, on the side of the pilot house.
In 1961, she was rebuilt, lengthened by 228 feet, converted into a bulk freighter on the Great Lakes and renamed the Walter A. Sterling. In 1976 she was lengthened again by 96 feet at the Fraser Shipyards in Superior. Two years later a 250-foot self-unloading boom was added on her deck.
In 1985 she was renamed the William Clay Ford, and in 1989 she received her present name after the wife of Paul R. Tregurtha, currently Vice Chairman of the Board of Interlake Steamship Company, the ship's owner.
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