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Name
Official number
Flag
IMO
ATALANTA
121334
GBR
Year built
Date launched
Date completed
1906
23/04/1906
Vessel type
Vessel description
Passenger Excursion
Steel Steam Turbine
Builder
Yard
Yard no
John Brown & Co Ltd., Clydebank
Clydebank
365
Tonnage
Length
Breadth
Depth
Draft
486 grt / 199 nrt /
210.4 ft
30.1 ft
10.3 ft
Engine builder
John Brown & Co Ltd., Clydebank
Engine detail
3 - Screw. 3 Steam turbines.
1930 New Boilers.
First owner
First port of register
Registration date
Glasgow & South Western Railway Company, Glasgow
Glasgow
Other names
1915 HMS ATALANTA II - 1919 ATALANTA - 1940 HMS ATALANTA II
Subsequent owner and registration history
12/1915 - 06/1919 Admiralty requisition - commissioned minesweeper
1923 London, Midland & Scottish Railway Company, Glasgow
1937 Blackpool Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., Glasgow / Blackpool
1940 - 1945 Admiralty requisition - commissioned netlayer
Vessel history
WW1 troop transport, & later, minesweeper.
WW2 netlayer.
Remarks
End year
Fate / Status
1946
Broken Up 15/10/1946
Disposal Detail
Breaking commenced at Ghent by Van Heyghen Freres.
Atalanta on the stocks
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Atalanta
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HMS Atalanta II
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At Methil 30/05/1945 after war service
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HMS Atalanta II
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