| Name: | ATLANTIC CONVEYOR |
| Type: | Container Ship / RoRo |
| Launched: | 25/08/1969 |
| Completed: | 03/1970 |
| Builder: | Swan Hunter & Tyne Shipbuilders Ltd |
| Yard: | Walker Naval Yard |
| Yard Number: | 2 |
| Dimensions: | 14946grt, 7408nrt, 646.0 x 91.8 x 63.6ft |
| Engines: | 4 x Steam turbines, DR geared, 38500shp |
| Engines by: | Associated Electrical Industries Ltd, Manchester |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 23.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 337245 |
| History: | |
| 03/1970 | Cunard Steam Ship Co Ltd, Liverpool (Atlantic Container Lines, managers) |
| 28/05/1982 | Sank |
| Comments: | 1982: Requisitioned for use as transport & support in the Falklands War |
| 25/05/1982: Hit by two Exocet missiles from Argentine Super Étendard jet fighters | |
| Fire destroyed much of the ship interior and most of the equipment she was carrying | |
| 3 x Chinook, 6 x Wessex and 1 x Lynx helicopters plus tools & spares were lost | |
| 28/05/1982: Scuttled off the Falklands Islands.12 persons died |
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