| Name: | ATLANTIC |
| Type: | Fishing Vessel - Trawler |
| Launched: | 29/11/1890 |
| Completed: | 02/1891 |
| Builder: | Hepple & Co |
| Yard: | North Shields |
| Yard Number: | 446 |
| Dimensions: | 120grt, 12nrt, 96.8 x 19.1 x 10.2ft |
| Engines: | C2cyl (17 & 34 x 24ins), 48nhp |
| Engines by: | Hedley & Boyd, North Shields |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 13.0knots (trials) |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | 98553 |
| History: | |
| 04/02/1891 | Matthew E Balls & Co, North Shields; registered at Aberdeen |
| 1893 | John Phillips & Thomas Melrose, North Shields |
| 1896 | I Sokoloff, Sevastopol; renamed SHALOON |
| by 1908 | I Romanenko, Odessa |
| by 1910 | Domkevich & Co, Odessa |
| 1910 | O Kraun & Co, Odessa |
| 1911 | Kertsch-Enikale Pilote Association, Kerch |
| 1914 | Russian Imperial Navy - Black Sea Fleet |
| 1921 | Soviet Navy - Black Sea Fleet |
| No later history known | |
| Comments: | 1896: Used as a tug |
| 1910: Used as a passenger excursion vessel | |
| 1914-1918: Requisitioned by the Russian Imperial Navy - Black Sea Fleet as a pilot boat | |
| 1918-1920: Russian civil war - unknown owners | |
| 1921: Used as a survey vessel & pilot boat | |
| 1924: Listed as laid up and requiring repairs |

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Above photo as SHALOON (ШАЛУНЪ) in 1910 is courtesy of the Novgorod Cadet Corps

Shields Daily Gazette, Thursday, 05/02/1891