[2] Power was furnished by twin steam engines, each driving a pitman arm connected to a crankpin on the sternwheel, with 55 total indicated horsepower for both combined.

Total required crew was shown as two.Dora was built for Russell Panter, who named the vessel after his daughter.

[1] Dora was placed on a route running from Bandon on the coast, to the county seat at Coquille and then upriver to Myrtle Point.

[7] Someone concerned about passenger safety contacted Sheriff Johnson, who in turn referred the matter to the Steamboat Inspection Service.

[8] On November 29, 1918, it was reported that Earl Randall, of Dundee, Oregon, a crewman on Dora, had been lost overboard during his course of duty and drowned.

[3] Dora was abandoned in 1927 along the bank of the Coquille River on the ranch of Paris Ward, one of the shareholders in the Myrtle Point Transportation Company.