Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Maggie Helen LK160"
Photos of the sailing ship:
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Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Fêtes Maritimes Douarnenez 2024,
07/2024
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Fêtes Maritimes Douarnenez 2024,
07/2024
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Fêtes Maritimes Douarnenez 2024,
07/2024
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Fêtes Maritimes Douarnenez 2024,
07/2024
Technical data of the sailing ship:
| Name: | Maggie Helen LK160 |
| Ex-names: | Loki |
| Nation: | FRA |
| Type of ship: | Zulu |
| Year built: | 1904 |
| Yard: | Hay & Co Ltd., Lerwick, Shetland, UK |
| Overall length: | 13.08 m |
| Breadth: | 3.99 m |
| Draught: | 1.91 m |
| Ship's hull: | Holz / Wood |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 11 Apr 2025
- built in 1904 as a fishing vessel (Zulu) for the Shetland Islands region, initially owned by James Gatt, acquired in 1907 by Georgie Lovie Watt, who fished with the boat until it was decommissioned in the 1950s.
- from 1952 to 1972 under the name "Loki", converted to a Bermuda schooner, used as a recreational yacht by the Moncrie family, with regular trips to Scandinavia until the end of the 1990s, from 1960 unrigged as a pure motor vessel, then no further use.
- around 2007 a restoration began at the Shetland Museum in Lerwick, which was never completed. stored at the museum to preserve and protect the vessel.
- April 2022: continuation of the restoration and re-equipment for active sailing, initially at the Shetland Museum, by an English/French team of ship carpenters around the owner Benoit Cayla.
- 2024 participation in Fêtes Maritimes in Douarnenez.