As "Viking Monarch"A 25 |
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to the Shetland Museum & Archives |
Agnes H Wetherly GN 9
Built | 1917 John Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Steel) |
Yard No | 428 |
Owner at New | Wetherly's Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (William R. Wetherly manager) |
ID no | 139795 |
Launch Date | 1917 |
Completed | 03.1917 |
Gross Tons | 229 |
Nett Tons | 89 |
Engine | 71hp T.3-cyl by W. Beardmore & Co Ltd, Glasgow |
Length | 115.1ft |
Breadth | 22.7ft |
Depth | 13.8ft |
Owners | |
30.03.1917 | Registered at Aberdeen A.743. |
05.1917 | Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (Ad No 3041) based in Egypt. |
1919 | Returned to Owners |
1927 | Owned by Richard Watson Lewis, Aberdeen (owner/manager). |
27.03.1928 | Ran ashore at Donmouth Aberdeen. Refloated 5 weeks later by salvage vessel "Iron" and taken to Aberdeen. |
15.12.1932 | Owned by North Eastern Fisheries Ltd, Aberdeen (Sir Andrew Lewis manager ) |
04.11.1938 | Towed Danish Schooner "Nordstjernen" into the safety of Pierowall Bay, Westray Orkney. Schooner lost two masts in severe gale, all seven crew safe. |
06.1940 | Requisitioned and converted to Armed Patrol Vessel |
16.11.1942 | Owned by William Carnie Jnr & Thomas Young Carnie, (Carnie & Gibb)Granton Edinburgh (Wm Carnie Jnr manager). |
12.1945 | Returned to Owners (When requisitioned in 1940, initial letter H was dropped). |
15.12.1945 | Aberdeen registry closed. |
12.1945 | Registered at Granton GN 9. |
03.1946 | Owned by George Robb & Sons, Aberdeen (George Robb manager) |
03.1946 | Granton registry closed. |
30.03.1946 | Registered at Aberdeen A.25 |
15.11.1946 | Renamed "VIKING MONARCH" |
06.1960 | Sold as scrap to Dutch ship breakers.. |
07.04.1961 | Aberdeen registry closed. |