 The ship's career was short, she was wrecked in 1811 off Hanlan's Point and was broken up.In the late 1790s, the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada Peter Hunter made a request to his superiors for funds to construct a new vessel on Lake Ontario for the express purpose of shuttling government officials between meetings in Upper Canada.Government business had been delayed by the lack of transportation and Hunter sought to remedy this by building a vessel for exclusive use by officials.