CONTROLS
- Telegraph throttle: Forward movement speed
- Helm: directional movement (left-right), scuttle (space)
HOW TO START
- Open steam valve at boiler
- Open air intake at boiler
- Ignite boiler
Morning (1849-1862) was a steamship built by Charles Thompson to compete with his old business partner, William Laughton's steamship, Beaver. By 1853, Morning had two orchestras, free passage, and meals included for passengers. At the beginning of the 1853 season, Thompson was looking to sell. The only bidder was the Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Railroad Company, who had the ship refitted for cargo and mail services. In 1857, with the loss of the company's other steamer, Joseph Curran Morrison, Morning was refitted again for combined passenger and cargo service as a replacement. In the fall of 1862, at the end of the steamboat season of that year, Morning was caught in a blinding blizzard. Captain Bell tried to anchor the ship in place but the waves dragged the anchor through the sand. The ship was eventually beached on an underwater sand bar in Cook's Bay. When the ice melted in the spring of 1863, Morning drifted loose towards Roches Point where it beached and rotted.
