Monohansett (steamboat)

Monohansett was a sidewheel steamer operating as a ferry serving the island of Martha's Vineyard during the late nineteenth century.

[1] Monohansett was built in 1862 by the New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard, & Nantucket Steamboat Company as a replacement for the steamer Eagle's Wing, which had caught fire during a race on the Providence River off Pawtuxet in 1861 and was destroyed.

[1] During the American Civil War, Monohansett carried dispatches to United States Navy ships operating in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras and Wilmington, North Carolina, as well as in the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River.

[1] General Grant reportedly was very fond of Monohansett, and President Abraham Lincoln and his wife also spent time aboard her.

[4] In the summer of 1874, now-President Grant used the Monohansett to visit Martha's Vineyard, arriving in Cottage City (now Oak Bluffs).

the steamer Monohansett , possibly at West Chop Wharf in Tisbury, Massachusetts .
The steamer Monohansett in Edgartown Harbor, 1896.
August 1883 advertisement in the Vineyard Gazette for excursions of the steamer Monohansett to tour the ruins of Vineyard Haven after the Great Fire of 1883 destroyed virtually the entire village.