The Day The S/S Iroquis Ran Aground In Bar Harbor Way back when in your grandmother's day, there were two steamships owned by the New York and Miami Steamship Corporation, they were S/S Iroquois and S/S Shawnee. On a very foggy morning in July something happened to one of them, something that is now legendary. It was early in the morning on July 13th 1936, a little over three years before the start of World War II, and the S/S Iroquois was loaded with sleepy passengers who had just spent the day and night prior enjoying all that Bar Harbor had to offer at the time. Much like it is now, the tourists from all over had enjoyed a lobster dinner, music and dancing, and a good night's sleep within the luxury suites aboard the steamer S/S Iroquois, a passenger liner 408 feet long and 62 feet wide with twin steam driven turbines capable of driving the ship up to 19 knots.