Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014
                           All Rights Reserved
                        USGenNet Data Repository

         Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page:
                <http://www.us-data.org/fineprint.html>

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