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Telescope 125 time using the revolutionary Airsliae conveying system developed by Huron at Alpena. On September 6, 1923, the steamer JOHN W. BOARDMAN was launched at Toledo Shipbuilding Company. This vessel, built for Huron for the sole purpose of carrying cement, had twice the capacity of the MITCHELL, and benefitted from the improvements brought about by the MITCHELL's seven years service. On November 28, 1923, she took her first cargo, which was also the first cement put into the newly completed Milwaukee plant. The third ship to join the fleet was the steamer S. T. CRAPO. She was christened July 7, 1927, at the Great Lakes Engineering works in Ecorse, Michigan. She too, was built for Huron, and was named Stanford T. Crapo, a founder of the company who served as its Secretary until his death in 1939. The CRAPO has been the flagship of the fleet ever since she hit the water, and this serviceable ship has many times opened the season on the Great Lakes. The only motor vessel in the fleet was formerly a west coast package freighter, originally named HICKORY COLL. Her sale by the U.S. Maritime Commission to private interests brought her first rename; COSTAL DELEGATE. In 1951, when only six years old, she was purchased by Huron, and in the following year was converted to a self unloading cement carrier. On April 30, 1958, she was renamed PAUL H. TOWNSEND, honoring the then newly elected president and treasurer of the company. Also in 1958, she was cut in two and 108 feet added to her midsection, and her pilot house moved forward. A propeller from the TOWNSEND has been given to the Dossin Museum by the Huron Cement Company. Now imbedded in cement, it is prominently displayed on the lawn, a most attractive and interesting item of exhibit. On July 6, Mr. Paul H. Townsend honored the museum by personally imbedding the bronze plaque which designates the gift of the company. The E. M. FORD was formerly the PRESGUE ISLE, a bulk ore carrier in the Cleveland Cliffs Fleet. In 1955, she was purchased by Huron and converted for cement at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. On July 24, 1956 she was christened E. M. FORD at the Bob-Lo dock in Detroit... less than a city block from the spot where Cadillac landed to establish Detroit 255 years earlier, to the exact day. The J. B. FORD was also a rename, having formerly been the E. C. COLLINS. Also an ore carrier, she was converted at Sturgeon Bay in 1959. This was not her first rename, for she left the ways at the American Shipbuilding Company in 1904 as the EDWIN F. HOLMES. She was owned by Acme Transit, Pittsburgh Steamship, and Kinsman Transit before Huron purchased her. Newest aquisition of the fleet is the former AMOCO, a tanker of the American Oil Company fleet. Built at Chester, Pa., in 1936, her present gross tonnage is 9,927. Her length, 486.3 ft, will make her the largest ship in the fleet when she has been converted. Already renamed, she is carried on the company roster as the H. R. SCHEMM. Her offical number is 235570. So much for the fleet. As for the people behind this operation, we said at the beginning we learned to know the nicest group of folks you might ever meet. That comes close to understatement.