Steamboat FOREST QUEEN

Steamboat FOREST QUEEN

FOREST QUEEN was a fast 100 ft. steamboat owned by the Casco Bay Steamboat Co. of Portland, Maine. She was buillt in Athens, New York in 1887, one of the first steamers with electric lights. In the early 1890s two comanies competed on the Rockland to Vinalhaven and Hurricane Island run, and FOREST QUEEN was brought to Rockland for the "Steamboat War". She won a number of races in Penobscot Bay, but in July 1892 she was replaced by the new GOVERNOR BODWELL and she returned to Portland, where she carried passengers and freight to the Casco Bay islands. In 1930 she was sold to a company in Cuba.