Truant was a steamboat that was operated in the Yaquina Bay region of Oregon from 1911 to 1919, transporting passengers and freight, and engaging in towing work.

[2] In early November 1909, the boiler and engine had been installed, while the company was building simultaneously a steam-driven pile driver on a barge.

[4] Power was supplied by a steeple double compound steam engines with cylinders 5 and 10 inches in diameter, with a 6-inch stroke, generating 80 horsepower.

[7] The elaborately descriptive dissolution notice stated: Whereas, this the Modern Improvement Company, has been torn asunder with dissension .and strife, back biting and lying and cross haul in Its multitudinous forms; disagreeing on important as well as trivial matters; rife with Internal disorder generally, and "Whereas, 'A house divided against Itself must fall,' all of the stock holders voted unanimously in favor of dissolution.

[10] On Sunday March 6, 1910, Truant carried the committee which was charged with the responsibility of taking the soundings on several sand bars in the river between Toledo and Oysterville, Oregon.

[11] The measurements were taken at low tide and were reported to have been “most gratifying.”[11] Truant's first regular run was scheduled to be an excursion from Toledo to Newport, Oregon on Sunday, April 24, 1910.

[12] In the first part of the week of December 9, 1910, steamboat inspectors Welden and Ames from Portland were in Toledo and inspected Truant.

[13] In the week prior to October 13, 1916, Truant was at the Hanson shipyard for repairs to be put into “first class shape” for the winter season.

[15] The Yaquina Bay life-saving crew, under the command of Captain Wellendar, heard steam exhausting and went to investigate.

[16] An ocean navigator, Paul Perkins, had been on board Truant, and he reported that Captain Fogarty had done all he could and remained cool.

[20] On the Saturday before July 5, 1912, as Truant was leaving Toledo and headed downriver, engineer Jack Fogarty, who was also one of the owners of the boat, got his arm entangled with the machinery.

[22] On December 13, 1913, the barge Frederick, owned by the Porter Brothers, of Portland was wrecked on the jetty at the entrance to Yaquina Bay and beached.

[23] Truant and the steam tug Fearless were on hand and started in pursuit, eventually capturing the loose barge.

[23] Another loss occurred during this situation when a scow chartered by the Porter Brothers from Jack Fogarty became jammed and had both ends stove in.