She is now a museum ship moored in Pine Grove Park, Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan.

61, a wooden-hulled ship, painted red with white lettering saying "Corsica Shoals" on her sides.

She was lost during the November Great Lakes Storm of 1913, which destroyed at least 12 ships and over 250 lives, when she was torn from her moorings and forced onto Point Edward on the Canadian shore.

[14] Huron was built by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Company in Morris Heights, New York.

)[15] Huron was equipped with one acetylene lens lantern, 300 millimetres (12 in), a 10 in (250 mm) steam whistle fog horn, and a hand-operated bell.

[16] In 1949, she was refitted to diesel power with twin six-cylinder GM 6-71 engines at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company of West Bay City, Michigan.

On 7 May 1958, Seaman Robert Gullickson, U.S. Coast Guard, perished when a wave swamped a tender from Huron Lightship that he was aboard.

[15] The following honors have been indicated: Commissioned in 1921, the Huron began service as a relief vessel for other Great Lakes lightships.

After serving in northern Lake Michigan, the Huron was assigned to the Corsica Shoals in 1935.

These shallow waters, six miles (9.7 km) north of Port Huron, were the scene of frequent groundings by lake freighters in the late nineteenth century.

Retired from Coast Guard Service in 1970, she was presented to the City of Port Huron in 1971.The ship is exceptionally well-preserved, and has an operable light and fog horn still on board.

[20] Her twin General Motors diesel engines are fully operational, having been brought back to life through the efforts of volunteer mechanics.

NM8GS is a take on the original visual and radio navy call sign, NMGS, the ship held when it was in operation.