She was a side-wheeler, with three boilers, only one deck, no masts, no figurehead, and an above-deck cabin.
The last tsunami broke the side-wheeler gunboat's anchor chains and drove her ashore almost 500 yards inland from the normal high-water mark.
Originally the boat was a wood burning side-wheeler.
For these reasons, the stern-wheeler type was dominant over the propeller and the side-wheeler in almost all inland water routes.
