Saskatoon woman arrested trying to commandeer the Prairie Lily

(Chad Hills / CTV News)

Saskatoon police say they arrested a woman after a misguided attempt to captain the Prairie Lily river boat on Wednesday morning.

While the Saskatoon Police Service didn’t name the iconic river cruise ship in its post on Facebook describing the arrest, the details are unmistakable.

Police say officers were called to the dock just after 5 a.m. on Wednesday after learning a woman was trying to gain access to the cabin of the ship.

“As officers arrived, they found the ship to be free floating next to the dock with all of its moorings undone,” police said in the Facebook post.

Police boarded the ship and found the woman on the second deck trying to open the door to the wheelhouse — the ship’s control centre.

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She likely wouldn’t have gotten too far, anyway. The accumulation of sand and silt in the channel has made the river unpassable for the mighty ship, and the Prairie Lily has cancelled its final season.

Police say the woman was escorted off the ship through multiple sets of locked barriers, after a brief struggle with officers.

According to police, they later discovered she also had three outstanding bylaw warrants.

“She was charged with break and enter with intent to commit theft of a vessel and informed that would be her last voyage on the ship.”

If anyone out there still has dreams of standing at the helm of the iconic river boat, the Prairie Lily was put up for sale last year. In absence of torrential flooding in the river channel, though, you may never get the chance to set sail.