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