The 1911-launched vessel's riveted plates and pre-radar pilothouse show the technology available to shipbuilders and mariners at the beginning of the 1900s.

[2] The NMGL has taken on a growing affiliate role in the discovery, identification, and preservation of sunken ships in Lake Erie.

Sunken boats and ships, particularly vessels built before 1900, can be examined to discover facts about boatbuilding and maritime experience that are not clearly written down in historical texts.

[3] The NMGL's riverfront museum structure, opened April 26, 2014, attempts to celebrate both the natural and the man-made heritage of the Great Lakes.

Primary displays, including model ships, allow a visitor to move through the Lakes' 350-year history of navigation.