She was powered by a 2,200-horsepower (1,600 kW) quadruple expansion steam engine and fueled by two coal-fired Scotch marine boilers.

Clarke anchored off the Great Lakes Engineering Works in the Detroit River on October 26, 1924, because of heavy fog.

On September 30, 1972, the Kinsman Voyager was departing the Globe elevator in Superior, Wisconsin when she backed into a mud bank and severely damaged her rudder.

[3] In the Spring of 1974 the Kinsman Voyager was sold to the Marine Salvage Ltd. of Port Colborne, Ontario.

She arrived in Port Colborne on April 22, 1974, towed by the tug Salvage Monarch.

On May 2, 1975, the Kinsman Voyager passed Cape Vincent towed by the tugs Salvage Monarch and the Helen M. McAllister bound for Quebec City.

The Kinsman Voyager and the steamer James E. Ferris departed Quebec on June 7, 1975, towed by the Polish tug Jantar.