The steamer was built by R. D. Hume at Ellensburg in 1881.
Today the city is called Gold Beach.
The Hume was hauling goods between Oregon and San Francisco, then it was used as a whaler in Alaska, then used as a service vessel in the Alaskan cannery trade, finally as a tugboat.
In 1977 she returned to Gold Beach. In 1985 she sank in the Rogue River and has remained there ever since as a wreck. The Mary D. Hume is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Today she is covered in moss and very much rotten.