[1] Arcadia was placed on the upper Puget Sound route served by the partnership of Ed Lorenz and Bernt L. Berntson with their steamship Sentinel.
[4] The daily run for Arcadia went from Lakebay, Washington to Tacoma, stopping along the way at Home, Arletta, Anchorage, Warren, Sunnybay, Cromwell, Sylvan, Wollochet, and Cedrona.
[2] Following the death of Ed Lorenz in 1941, Berntson, who himself had been ill at the time,[5] sold Arcadia to the government for use as a tender for the penitentiary on McNeil Island.
Overlade to Puget Sound Excursion Lines,[3] a company which was controlled by Seattle businessman James F. "Cy" Devenny (born c.1896).
[6] Devenny, dba Puget Sound Excursion Lines then also owned Virginia V, another of the few surviving steamers of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet, as well as other older vessels, including the Burro, which he had renamed Carolyn M. (after his wife), and the motor vessel Imperial and the large older yachts El Primero and Aquilo.