[2] She was powered by a quadruple expansion steam engine attached to a single fixed pitch propeller and fueled by two coal-fired scotch marine boilers.

At the time of her launch Augustus B. Wolvin was the longest vessel operating on the Great Lakes (hence the unofficial title "Queen of the Lakes"), she was also the first vessel that had telescoping steel hatch covers which replaced the old wooden hatch covers.

In 1966 the ship was sold to the Canadian Labrador Steamship Company of Montreal, Quebec.

[5] In June 1967 Augustus B. Wolvin ran aground in the Welland Canal and suffered severe bottom damage.

[6] Eventually she was declared a total loss at Port Weller and towed to Hamilton, Ontario.