The wooden side-wheeled steamer was rammed by the lumber schooner Augusta, which was running without lights.
George H. Bradley was built as a wooden commercial steamer of the same name in 1871 at Bath, Maine.
The wooden steamer was completely wrecked and nine of her crew were lost before Army steamer John Farrow rescued 14 survivors three days later.
In 1882, the company booked orders for five small iron vessels and built engines for another fifteen wooden steamers.
The Humboldt was a wooden steamer built in Eureka, CA in 1896.
Sticky rice is put into a wooden steamer after being soaked in water.
A notable, possibly notorious, project was the wooden, ocean-going steamer.
Sallie Wood was a wooden steamer built in 1860 at Paducah, Kentucky.
Meanwhile, the George Hadley, a 2073-ton wooden steamer, was inbound for the Duluth harbor.
Since then, it has built everything from wooden steamers to a luxury yacht for J. P. Morgan to steel warships.