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Name: ATLANTIC
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 24/09/1904
Completed: 10/1904
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 398
Dimensions: 3313grt, 2088nrt, 340.0 x 49.0 x 22.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (25, 40.5 & 67 x 45ins), 332nhp, 1800ihp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 11.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
10/1904 Rederi A/B Transatlantic (WRB Lundgren), Gothenburg
1919 Manager G Carlsson
1929 Rederi A/B Bore (GE Sandström), Gothenburg
1935 Winha O/Y (Antti Wihuri), Helsingfors; renamed WINHA
1941 Ministry of War Transport (Raeburn & Verel), Glasgow
1944 Managers J & J Denholm, Glasgow
09/06/1944 Scuttled
Comments: 09/06/1944: Scuttled in Gooseberry No 3 harbour
at Normandy beach as an artificial breakwater


Above photo copyright of the Walter Frost collection, City of Vancouver Archives

Above photo as ATLANTIC courtesy of Photoship

Shields Daily News, Friday, 30/09/1904