The Weekly Star (Whitehorse, Y.T.), Friday, October 11, 1912
The new steamer which is being constructed by the White Pass company for special use on the Yukon river and larger tributaries, the hull of which was but recently completed at the yards in this place under the supervision of Foreman A. H. Henderson, was launched at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon when Mrs. J. R. P. Gaudin, wife of the popular chief engineer of the flagship Casca, broke a bottle of Mumm's over the bow as she slid down the slippery ways into the chilly waters of old Yukon. The new steamer will have the same name as a former popular light draught steamer, the Prospector.
After the machinery is installed in the new boat she will be towed to the foot of Lake Lebarge where her house will be put on and where she will be made ready to enter commission early next spring and as soon as the ice is out of the river below the lake.
The new Prospector is 112 feet in length with a breadth of beam of 27 feet. She will be the lightest draught steamer on the river and at the same time will have good carrying capacity. She wiil be used in the seasons when the water is too low for the company's larger craft, also on the side streams.
