The Pacific No. 2 was built at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1893. Her dimensions were:- 176 x 32 x 5.0 feet. Tonnage, gross, 570; net, 416 tons. The Marmet Coal Company sold the machinery of the Lioness No. 2 to the Captains Joseph and Abe Gould who placed them in the Pacific No. 2. She was a coal towboat operating out of Pittsburg. On January 23, 1900, the Pacific ascending the Ohio River