The vessel was operated for 15 years on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers, and then was transferred to Puget Sound.
[1] From 1891 to 1895, Portland operated out of Everett, Washington, piloted by Captain James Hastings.
Eventually, Portland drifted north into Canadian waters, where she was recovered as a derelict by the B.C.
Rithet and Company, a prominent British Columbia shipping concern that re-purposed her to a passenger steamer.
She was renamed Clayoquat and ran on passenger routes out of Port Renfrew, on the west coast of Vancouver Island.