Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Monkshaven OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: C131333 DATE OF LOSS: 27 November 1905 REASON: Storm LOCATION: Lake Superior, Angus Island RIG TYPE: Prop. Turret steamer HULL TYPE: Steel BUILDER: J. Readhead & Co., South Shields, England - 1882 OWNER(S): Algoma Central Steamship Co. MASTER: Capt. McIntyre TONNAGE: 1,507 gt (reduced to 1,415 gt in 1897) DIMENSIONS: 249 x 36 x 18 CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: 20 A victim of the 1905 "Mataafa" storm, the MONKSHAVEN was smashed, stern first, onto Pie Island in Lake Superior. Attempts to save her were started the following summer with intentions to take her to Duluth for repairs. On October 18, 1906, she broke loose from the wrecking tug and stranded on Angus Island where fall storms battered her and she was abandoned in place. ======================================================================== Sources: The Evening Argus, Owosso, MI - 2 December 1905 Blue Book of American Shipping, 1903 British Whig, 4 December 1905 Marine Review, Vol. 34 - 1906 Greenwood "NAMESAKES 1900-1909" - 1987, p. 2 Last updated 17 August 2014