The mark consists of the depiction of the front portion of a ship with a black lower hull, white upper hull with the black wording "BADGER", with blue, red and grey stripes,and black port holes, a white tower outlined in black with a red stripe and black windows, a blue smoke stack with a red circle and white letters "LMC" on it and grey smoke coming out and three white covered lifeboats outlined in black and a light blue sky, all above the wording "S.S. BADGER" stacked above the wording "A HISTORIC LANDMARK" all in white lettering on a dark blue rectangle that extends to outline the upper portion of the mark.