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Name: ATLAS
Type: Fishing Vessel - Trawler
Launched: 29/05/1899
Completed: 1899
Builder: Edwards Brothers
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 610
Dimensions: 137grt, 42nrt, 97.1 x 20.6 x 10.8ft; (1905: 191grt, 80nrt, 121.0 x 20.6 x 10.6ft)
Engines: T3cyl (12, 18 & 30 x 21ins), 51nhp
Engines by: MacColl & Pollock Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1899 Stavanger Havfiske Co (TS Falck), Stavanger
1916 Government of Russia - Arctic Flotilla; renamed T-41
1919 The Admiralty; renamed FROSTAXE
30/04/1919 Sank
Comments: 29/05/1899: Launch date according to TIC records
Some sources have launched 18/12/1899
1905: Lengthened to 121.0ft by Støberi & Dok at Stavanger
1917: Seized by Russian revolutionary forces
30/04/1919: Sank after a collision with EPIROS off Newhaven


Above photo, before lengthening, is courtesy of Birgir Þórisson

Above photo, after lengthening, is copyright of the Stavanger Maritime Museum

Above profile, after lengthening, is courtesy of Birgir Þórisson