After her grounding on the shores of Riverhead, Harbour Grace, she has had several owners, from the Earle Brothers Freighting Company, Dominion Metals, and the Government of Newfoundland.

[4] Plans to have the vessel moved to the town of Salmon Cove, Newfoundland, and turned into a museum were later aborted due to financial implications.

[5] While she may not have been the largest boat in the Reid Company's fleet, she was the fastest, and played a role in ferrying passengers and cargo in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Upon being replaced on the Nova Scotia run by the new SS Caribou, Kyle was moved in 1926 to the route between Carbonear and Labrador ports.

The hulk was repainted in 1997, but this was only a cosmetic measure, and by 2014 serious structural deterioration left Kyle's future in serious doubt.