S.S. Charles L. Wheeler Jr. was a 3,300 ton cargo ship, ordered by the United States Shipping Board as the Point Judith and delivered in July 1918 by the Albina Engine and Machine Works of Portland, Oregon.

[1] On 17 December 1933, Charles L. Wheeler Jr. ran aground on Sand Island in Oregon′s Columbia River.

[4] As part of the opening ceremonies of the lock, Captain Arthur Riggs, a veteran upper Columbia river pilot, took Charles L. Wheeler Jr. – which was operated by McCormick Steamship Company and loaded with sugar, building materials, beer, hardware, automobiles, and general freight – upstream from Portland, transited the Bonneville Locks and continued on to the historic upper river steamboat port of The Dalles, Oregon.

[7] Once unloaded at the Port of the Dalles, the ship was then loaded with lumber, wheat, flour, and other local products for the return voyage.

[4] In 1941 the purse seiner Lina B., fishing out of San Francisco, California, and Charles L. Wheeler Jr. collided in fog in the Pacific Ocean near the Farallon Islands off the coast of California, ripping a hole in the bow of Lina B. and disabled her steering gear.