originally powered by two scotch boilers, the vessel, by now renamed "elton hoyt ii", was repowered in 1950 with a skinner unaflow steam engine and two watertube boilers. this would be the first of five separate renamings as the vessel repeatedly changed owners. too small by the 1960s to serve as a profitable ore boat, the vessel was laid up and then, in 1966, plucked out of a freshwater boneyard for reconversion and new life as a cement carrier. now based in charlevoix, michigan, the aging steamship shuttled powdered cement from northern michigan to a wide variety of roadbuilding contractors in various port locations on the great lakes.