Atlas
Name | Atlas |
Type | Sailing vessel
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GRT | 2,068 tons |
Country | French |
Built | 1886
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Builder | Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow
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Operator | French Government, Lorient
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History | Four-masted steel-hulled bark. Built as Bannockburn.
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U-boat attacks on Sailing vessel Atlas
| Date | U-boat | Loss type | Position | Location | Route | Cargo | Casualties |
1 | 28 Jul 1917 | U 30 (Franz Grünert) | Sunk | Torpedoed about 200 miles W of Fastnet.
| 51° 35'N, 15° 31'W
| Clyde - Fort de France
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| No survivors recovered; vessel posted as missing.
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Position of attack on Atlas
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