Built in 1904, by A.D. Story of Essex, Massachusetts as the Helen M. Field for the J. Arbuckle Company of Salem, Massachusetts.
She was later acquired by the McAllister Brothers Towing Company of New York, New York. Where the tug retained her name.
In 1916, the tug was sold and renamed as the Limalite. However, later that year however the tug was lost.
She was a single screw tug, rated at 750 horsepower.