The Dream

The steamer, the Dream, was built in Newark, New Jersey in 1880. She was 63 feet long and 20 feet wide. She was brought to Saint John and used as a pleasure craft, primarily by Senator W. H. Thorne, for more than thirty years.

She was bought by the Oconee Steamship Co. and rebuilt for passenger and freight service. In April 1922, the Champlain burned at Glenwood and the Dream replaced her on the Saint John-Jemseg route.

On October 20,1922, the Dream was making her way down river. She was maneuvering around Gorhams Bluff when a stiff northwest wind hit her starboard side and she listed. Water entered her port side portholes and within a minute she was sunk. Many of those on board clung to floating debris and were in the water an hour before rescuers arrived. Five passengers lost their lives.