SIEUR DE MONTS

SIEUR DE MONTS

The 155 ft. seamboat SIEUR DE MONTS was built in 1901 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and her first name was QUAKER CITY. She came to Maine in 1905 for the Maine Central Railroad and provided luxurious summer excursions from Rockland, where the rallroad ended, to wealthy resort towns including Dark Harbor, Camden and Castine. In 1918 she served the U.S. Army and was returned to the railroad in 1922. In 1923 she was sold and named GENERAL MATHEWS, serving in Norfolk, Virginia. In March 1930 she burned to the water's edge at Norfolk, but was rebuilt as a tank barge. In 1949 she was broken up for scrap.