1886, May 11 Launched; name is Menominee Indian word meaning old squaw
duck; ran Detroit, Bay City, Black River & Alpena
1887, February 17 Reengined Worthington compound engine, ran Cheboygan
to Sault Saint Marie; chartered to Graham & Morton
Transportation Company, ran mid to lower Lake
Michigan
1888, April 28 Owned B.B. Inman, Duluth, Minnesota; ran Duluth to Port
Arthur & Isle Royale
1889, July Owned F.W. Wheeler & Company mortgage defaults
1889, August 8 Owned Darius Cole Transportation Company, excursions to
Thousand Islands
1890, October 8 Owned F.W. Wheeler, Bay City, Michigan
1891, April 29 Owned J.C. Dowd & George Malchus, Cleveland
1891, July 3 Owned F.W. Wheeler, Bay City, Michigan
1892 Rebuilt at Abram Smith yard, Algonac, one mast, lengthened 153 x
29 x 9.2', 432.71 gross/289.35 net tons; 13.5, 23 + 37 x 24",
540hp at 130rpm triple expansion engine by S.F. Hodge & Company,
Detroit (1892); one scotch boiler 12 x 12' at 160 pounds steam by
Wicks Brothers, Saginaw (1892)
1892, April 11 Owned Smith Fee Company, Duluth, Minnesota; ran World's
Fair excursions to Chicago
1895, December 9 Owned George T. Arnold, Mackinac, Michigan; ran
Straits area
1896 Rebuilt, Manistee, Michigan
1900, February 27 Arnold Transit Company
1900 Foundered off Sturgeon Point, Michigan, Lake Huron; recovered
1901 Owned Algoma Central Railroad Company, Sault Saint Marie,
Ontario, C107488; ran Toledo to Detroit & Sault Saint Marie &
Lake Superior
1902 Major rebuild by Polson Iron Works, Owen Sound, Ontario
161.6 x 27.8 x 9', 632 gross /303 net tons
1909, April 7 Owned J.E. Rebstock, Ridgeway, Ontario; ferry service
Buffalo to Crystal Beach, Ontario
1910 Owned William Ball, Chatham, Ontario; converted to full day boat;
operated by Chatham Navigation Company in excursion trade,
Chatham to Detroit
1917 Owned Halifax, Nova Scotia; made a barge
1919, September 28 Foundered, Atlantic Ocean
