S.S. Cygnet

In February 1906, the Member of Parliament for Nanaimo announced that funds had been allocated to build a snagboat for the Skeena River. In 1907 the contract was awarded to Schaake Machine Works, New Westminster, BC. The Vancouver Province newspaper also reported that a small, underpowered snagboat was at work on the Skeena River at present and would then move to the Nass River. In October 1906 the Vancouver Province reported that the new snagboat had been launched and is awaiting the arrival of the machinery from Toronto. In April 1908, Cunninghams diary at Port Essington recorded the arrival of Cygnet in tow of the Str. Petrel

In 1912, the Cygnet, a sternwheel powered snagboat worked the Skeena River, removing logs and stumps from the river that interfered with fishing on the river. At this time Captain W H Noel had been in charge of the BC Department of Public Works snagboat for 5 years. Capt. Noel drowned off Digby Island near Prince Rupert and a funeral and burial was held for him at Port Essington on Monday, March 4, 1912.

In 1917, the Prince Rupert Journal reported that Capt. J Homans of Vancouver, of the Government snag boat Signet [sic] was a guest at the Rupert Hotel.

In 1922, Capt. Mulligan is in charge of the Cygnet which sometime later was renamed the Bobolink, according to a report in the Prince Rupert Daily News, in Dec 7, 1929.