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The Detroit Marine Historian Journal of Marine Historical Society of Detroit Volume 25, No. 7 13951 Faust, Detroit, Michigan 48223 March, 1972 Dotod's Fist Avinl-G ST Cngpo aN s usual, it was a Huron Cement boat that made the first trip A into Detroit from Lake Huron. Here is the S.T.CRAPO unloading WANS e her first cargo out of the company's big plant at Alpena. She and Huron's J.A.W. IGLEHART were also first through the Straits of Mackinac, as usual, escorted by the Coast Guard icebreaker MACKINAW. They carried cement for Muskegon and Waukesha. Huron's cement boats have built a tradition for early operations. Some years they have taken a beating but they're always back again the following year. The great-gray carriers, ghosting through the ice fog, signal the coming of spring as reliably as any flock of Canadian geese.