GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – One of the oldest ships still floating on the Great Lakes is being hauled away to be scrapped.
The S.T. Crapo, built in 1927, has been docked at Lafarge on the west bank of the Fox River in Green Bay for 25 years where it was used as a cement storage barge.
To make room for Lafarge’s storage expansion on land, the vessel was sold to a Canadian company, Marine Recycling Corp., to be scrapped in Port Colborne, Ontario – just west of Buffalo, on Lake Erie.
On Friday morning, crews tugged the S.T. Crapo out of port, changing the landscape of the area.
“All the metals recovered from the ship will be made into new metal, using industrial furnaces with energy savings of approximately 80%, as compared to making metal from virgin ores and, metal is infinitely recyclable. She may next appear as vehicle components!” according to Wayne Elliott, co-founder of MRC.
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