Pictured as: the Bert Reinauer II (Boston Fuel) Photo by: Paul Kinnaly
M/T PARATEX
Built in 1938, by the Bethlehem Steel Company of Beaumont, Texas (hull #131) as the as the Paratex for the Gulf Oil Corporation of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
In 1975, the vessel was acquired by the Reinauer Transportation Companies of Staten Island, New York. Where she was renamed as the Bert Reinauer II.
She was later transferred to the Boston Fuel Transportation Company of East Boston, Massachusetts (a subsidiary of the Reinauer Transportation Company of Staten Island, New York.) Where she retained her name.
In 2002, she was scrapped. The vessel was a single screw tanker, rated at 2,000 horsepower.
- Vessel Name: M/T PARATEX
- USCG Doc. No.: 236989
- Vessel Service: TANK SHIP
- Trade Indicator: Coastwise Unrestricted
- Hull Material: STEEL
- Hull Number: 131
- Ship Builder: Bethlehem Steel Company
- Year Built: 1938
- Length: 286.6
- Hailing Port: NEW YORK, NY.
- Hull Breadth: 43.1
- Gross Tonnage: 1542
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Previous Vessel Names:
Paratex -
Previous Vessel Owners:
Gulf Oil Corp., Reinauer Transportation Co., Boston Fuel Transportation Co.
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