Built as a passenger vessel under yard No. 85 by the New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden N.J. for the Hudson River Day Line.
20 March 1909 launched under the name ROBERT FULTON.
Tonnage 2.168 grt, dim. 337.0 x 42.0 x 12.4ft.
One 2-cyl (vertical cylinders) walking beam engine, the engine was from the burned out steamer NEW YORK, ?hp, speed 19 knots.
May 1909 delivered to owners.
She was ready in time for the 1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration in New York., and after completing put in the service between New York to Albany, under command of Capt, Ira Harcourt.
She was beautifully fitted out, the famous maritime artist Samuel Ward Santon, (Santon lost his live on board the Titanic) completed five murals showing the development of steam navigation on the Hudson River for interior decoration...
When the ROBERT FULTON was scrapped only one of this paintings was saved, the painting was broken, but you can now find it in the Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia.
Later was she put in the service between Poughkeepsie and Kingston and New York.
1956 Sold to National Container Corp., New York, partly dismantled and then towed to the Bahamas, where she was used as a floating office.
1957 Sold to Ownens-Illinois of the Bahamas Ltd.
1960 was she beached on Snake Cay, Great Abaco Island.
January 1968 broken up.
Gambia 1992 5d sg 1336, scott 1259.
Source: some web-sites. Register of Merchant ships completed 1909.