In 1960 it was brought to the Marine Institute in Baltimore, MD as a part of the effort to stimulate downtown Baltimore. For a time the collection went into storage. In 1975, Dr. Turner, who was the head of the University of Baltimore, offered facilities at the Langsdale Library of the University of Baltimore as a permanent home for the collection. The collection, which is constantly being expanded contains books, periodicals, reports, postcards photos, brochures, menus, drawings, documents and registers. There are currently 6000 volumes covering the period from 1812 to the present.
Some books are in the rare book collection and are separately housed but are available for research.
Books are filed using the Library of Congress system. Everything acquired up to 1991 is in a card catalog. The entire book collection including acquisitions since 1991 is now computerized. Some of the reference section includes six volumes of Early American Steamers by Erik Heyl, North Atlantic Seaway by N. R. P. Bangor, and Passenger Ships of the World Past and Present by Eugene W. Smith. There are over 2000 plans in this portion of the collection, including modelers' plans, actual builders' plans, and surveyors' drawings for insurance purposes.