| Summary: | This steamer was built in 1891 by Harlan and Hollingsworth, Wilmington, Delaware. She was owned by Harlan and Hollingsworth until 1891, when she was sold to Montauk Steamboat Company. She was purchased by Long Island Railway Company in 1895, and River Harbor Transportation Company in 1899. In 1902, she was sold to Edward V. Douglas, of Canada. She was then sold to Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway Company in 1903, Ontario and Ohio Navigation Company in 1911, Richard Clayton Eckert in 1912, Everard Hardel North in 1912, Silver Islet Navigation Company in 1912, and Michael McCulloch in 1918. She returned to the United States in 1922, when she was purchased by Katherine Murphy. Clow and Nicholson Transportation Company purchased her in 1923. She was then sold to West End Iron and Metal Corporation in 1942, Walter W. Bowe and A.B. Powers in 1943, and Lyons Construction Company in 1944. In 1902, she became "King Edward," in 1910, she became "Forest City," and in 1922 she became "Montauk" again. She received her first enrollment in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 29, 1891. Final East Coast document surrendered at New York, New York, March 28, 1902, and endorsed "sold alien." She dropped from U.S. documentation in 1947 as steamer, but her cabins had been stripped in 1944.
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