Since 1816 the members had prospered from a steamship service between Thorne and Hull, and among them was the shipyard owner Richard Pearson, and he got the order for the Kingston.

The machinery consisted of a single cylinder steam engine from Overton & Smith in Hull, giving 60 nominal horse power.

[2] By 1822, the steamer Caledonia continued to be the only steamship allowed on the route between Copenhagen and Kiel in Holstein, at that time a part of the Danish kingdom.

But her monopoly did not extend to the harbours east of Kiel, so the master Mathias Büring Lou applied for similar rights for a route between Copenhagen and Lübeck.

The political pressure from the Postal Service resulted in the reinstatement of a charter whereby passengers had to pay a levy for "loss of mail revenue", and the rules demanded a bureaucratic process at departure and arrival.

From 1830, the new Frederik den Sjette also called on Lübeck every week (as well as Kiel) and Prindsesse Wilhelmine continued her service until 1833, when the preferential treatment ended.

And so it came to be that Prindsesse Wilhelmine was bought for 12,000 rigsdaler by Øresunds Toldkammers Fattigkasse, which was a pension fund holding a convenient amount of cash.

That year the steamer made its most famous tugging, taking the Danish naval frigate Rota - with Bertel Thorvaldsen and many of his works travelling from Italy - from Helsingør to a large crowd gathered in Copenhagen.