Drone fly over of the remains of the Saint Louis Steamer in Cape Vincent, NY. -3/5/23 Launched near the end of the American Civil War, the St. Louis was built and launched in Cleveland, Ohio, for the Buffalo & Detroit Transportation Company. With a single Deck, she was part of a new class of steamships called “Propellers”, which replaced the side wheel as the means of propulsion for vessels. The propeller, which was referred to as a screw, was driven by a single cylinder steam engine and boiler. A single mast was mounted just behind the pilot house. At 203 feet, with a beam of 31 feet, she was rated at 788 tons. She operated mainly on the upper great lakes, until 1906, when she was Rebuilt at Tonawanda, NY, as an unrigged Barge and operated by Niagara Falls Paper Company. In 1908, her ownership passed to the Atlantic Coast Steamship Company of Buffalo, NY. In February of 1914, she was Abandoned as a Total Loss, at Cape Vincent, NY, where she had been stranded next to a dock, where she remains to this day.