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1-3 S.T. Crapo

This is one of my first "Actual" Builds Tell me what you think about her and stuff I could improve on!
((she is still a WIP and will need INF Electric))

HISTORY

Only the second bulk cement carrier built from the keel up, the S.T. Crapo was built as hull # 256 in 1927 by the Great Lakes Engineering Works, River Rouge, MI. The vessel was launched and christened July 7, 1927, for the Huron Transportation Co., a division of Huron Portland Cement Co., Detroit, MI, becoming the first carrier to date to be launched with her boilers lit and the second self-unloader of her type ever built. The first bulk cement carrier to be constructed from the keel up was the John W. Boardman (renamed Lewis G. Harriman in 1965) built for the same owners in 1923. The S.T. Crapo was named in honor of Mr. Stanford Tappan Crapo, co-founder with Mr. J.B. Ford of the Huron Portland Cement Co. in 1907. Mr. Crapo served as the company's secretary until his death on January 26, 1939. The S.T. Crapo sailed as the fleet's flagship from her launch date through until 1965 when the J.A.W. Iglehart entered service assuming the title. in 2023 she was towed to Scrap