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ATLANTIS

British cruising ship ATLANTIS, imo 1135497/ 180m/ 15.620gt/ triple screw/ 17kn/ Pax: 380 1st, 250 2nd, 700 3rd class; 08/05/1913 by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, for Royal Mail Steam Packet Co, Ltd, Liverpool, as RMSP ANDES; 26/09/1913 started her maiden voyage for Pacific Steam Navigation Co, Liverpool, on when she left Liverpool for Valparaiso, and subsequently sailed between Southampton and Buenos Aires with calls at Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo. WWI used as an Armed Merchant Cruiser, she was engaged in a battle with the German raider GREIF, which was sunk. Used on convoy escort work and then used to repatriate British submarine crews trapped at Murmansk. 1919 reconditioned and resumed River Plate services until 1929 when she was refitted as a cruising liner for 450 1st class passengers and renamed ATLANTIS. 1939 converted to a hospital ship, she was initially based at Alexandria, used in the Norwegian evacuation in 1940 and then sent to the Indian Ocean for the next two years. 1942 took part in the Madagascar campaign; 1943 repatriated Italian prisoners of war to Lisbon and Germans to Gothenburg. She continued hospital and repatriation duties until 1946, was reconditioned to carry 900 3rd class passengers and used to carry emigrants from the UK to Australia and New Zealand; 1952 laid up; 27/03/1952 arrived Faslane for breaking up. Seen in a Norwegian fjord. (owner’s post card – my collection)

Username	Rui Amaro
Armateur	Royal Mail Lines, Ltd, London
Ship manager
Numéro IMO	1135497
Type de navire	cruising ship
Année et chantier de construction	08/05/1913 by Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Date
Lieu	in a Norwegian fjord
Téléchargée le	15/04/2013
Dimension	800 x 562
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