[3] Her two steeple engines were fed by a double tubed Lancashire boiler, built by William Bourne's foundry.

[2] Governor Wynyard made a trial trip on the Tamaki River on 10 January 1852, with one of her owners, Captain Cook, Mr. Brown being engineer.

[6] For her first 6 months she ran on the Tamaki River to Panmure and Ōtāhuhu,[7][8] where some roads were not fit for carts,[9] but settlers were reported to be annoyed if she didn't wait for goods beyond departure time.

[2] In 1853 her paddle-boxes were removed and she sailed across the Tasman Sea to Melbourne, where she arrived on 26 August,[11] worked on a ferry to Williamstown[12] and was sold by her builder on 28 December 1852 for £2,300.

[4] However they are probably not true, as she started a Tamar River ferry service between Launceston and George Town in February 1854, owned by Benjamin Hyrons.

[17] On Sunday 20 July 1873, during a voyage from Duck River to Launceston, Governor Wynyard sprang a leak and was beached as a wreck at Stanley.