Following an investigation, both masters were censured by marine inspectors Whitney and Turner (who, apparently coincidentally, had been present in Portland, Oregon earlier that year at the launching of Kitsap.

[2] In January 1907, Moe Bros. sold both Monticello and Advance to the Port Blakeley Mill Co., which used them to replace the Sarah M. Renton.

[2] In 1922, Port Blakeley Mill sold Monticello to their former competitor Kitsap County Transportation Company with the objective of forming a jointly-operated fast passenger ferry from Seattle to Bainbridge Island, where the mill company's owners, D.E.

[1][4] In 1930, Puget Sound Freight Lines obtained an option on Monticello to operate her on the Bellingham-San Juan Islands-Seattle route with the steamer Mohawk, but the business wasn't sufficient to sustain two large passenger vessels, so the diesel vessel Suquamish was assigned to run from the San Juans to Bellingham where travelers bound for Seattle could board the Mohawk for Seattle.

This actually worked, although one of her all-union crew had to carry the burden of collecting horse manure along the waterfront and bringing it back to the boat.

By 1962, she was in service out of Seattle as the crab fishing vessel Sea Venture, and under that name in March 1962 she foundered off the Aleutian Islands.