The Detroit would travel 6,000 miles across the ocean in 1912 to make a point about the safety of marine travel
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- The ship leaves New York, heading for the open sea.
At 35 feet long and 10 feet at its widest, it looked like a lifeboat. The deck was broken into three distinct sections, raised forward and aft and depressed amidships. A spruce spar rising 24 feet above deck carried the 240-square-foot sail, and a 16-horsepower gasoline engine built by the Scripps company provided the power. It drafted 5 feet and had a loaded displacement of 14 tons. On board, five stainless steel tanks held 960 gallons of fuel. Below the crew's bunks were water tanks holding 300 gallons. The boat launched June 25, 1912 at Port Clinton. However stalwart, Commodore Scripps would not take the cruise himself, choosing New Yorker Thomas Fleming Day to captain the vessel. Captain Day, 50, affectionately called "The Old Man" and occasionally called "tuffernhell," had already crossed the Atlantic Ocean in June 1911 in a 25-foot yawl, the Sea Bird. O  n June 26, The Detroit News sports page displayed a photo of Scripps and 11 others in straw hats on the Detroit, inspecting it just before launch at Port Clinton. Scripps and a few other club members were to cruise the vessel to Detroit to the Detroit Motor Boat Club.
In Detroit the ocean crew of four would stock up from city stores because it was to represent the city in every way. It would also get clearance papers for the trip. Day gave a short speech before the launching. "In years gone by I must admit that I was prejudiced against shipbuilding away from the seaboard and in the Middle West, but let me tell you this little boat is perfect in every detail and could not be better constructed.
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