For the passenger steamer that sank in 1901, see SS Islander The steamboat Islander (1) operated in the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet.

Newhall ran Islander on the San Juan Islands mail route until about 1909 when John S. McMillan, of Roche Harbor formed the San Juan Navigation Co., which placed the steamer Vashonian on the run from Seattle to Roche Harbor, where travelers could transship to the steamer Burton to proceed further to Bellingham.

In 1910, when Captain Newhall’s mail contract expired, he could not compete with the well-financed San Juan Navigation Co., and Islander was forced to tie up at Decatur Island.

William H. Kasch, who running the 65' long gasoline-powered launch Yankee Doodle was able to race ahead of Islander, beating her to all the landings and picking up cargo and passengers before Islander could get to the dock.

[7] The coastwise steamer La Feliz(formerly Islander), grounded near Watsonville, California with a sizable cargo of Fireman's Fund-insured sardines aboard.