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OAS platform Detail for Monarch
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platforms_id: 10535
Title: HMTS
Name: Monarch
ICES Code: 74KC
Callsign:
Countries: UNITED KINGDOM
Comments: Updated information from ICES for the vessel Monarch from GB: UNITED KINGDOM.

Name : Monarch
Country(s) : GB: UNITED KINGDOM (ISO Country Code)
Platform Class : 32: Vessel of opportunity
Title : HMTS
Commissioned Date : 1883
Decommissioned Date : 1915
Built : 1883
WOD Code: 8780
Notes : Cable ship (Her Majesty's Telegraphy Ship) designed and built for the GPO. Sunk off Folkestone in 1915 by a torpedo or mine.

Information Sources:
- http://atlantic-cable.com/Cableships/Monarch(2)/index.htm
- (http://atlantic-cable.com/Cableships/Monarch(2)/index.htm)

General Comments:
This is the second HMTS Monarch built in 1883 and sunk in 1915.

ICES added 2006-11-01
Deprecated: false
Metadata version: 4
Keydate: 2005-02-11 19:18:00.23554+00
Editdate: 2022-07-05 03:13:47+00