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