CSPAN3 Col. James M. Schoonmaker July 13, 2024
Lakes. She was the largest ship on the great lakes at the time. We will take you around and show you just how much cargo this great ship could carry. Mr. Gillcrist we like to think of it as two football fields of education and entertainment. It is a great hook for us to get people appreciating and understanding more of the great lakes. We are on the pilothouse deck. Is the National Museum of the great lakes. The schoonmaker was a commercial freighter from when it was built in 1911 to the 1980s. It became a museum when the city of toledo purchased it in 1987. Her main purpose was to deliver iro...