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Name: ATLAS
Launched: 14/04/1926
Completed: 10/1926
Builder: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Yard Number: 327
Dimensions: 620grt, 21nrt, 165.7 x 32.2 x 14.8ft
Engines: 2 x T3cyl (20, 33 & 54 x 33ins), 334nhp, 3240ihp
Engines by: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 12.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (IMO: 5036872)
History:
1926 Cie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez, Port Said
1958 Company restyled Suez Canal Authority, Port Said; renamed BARIE
1974 Broken up
Comments: Classed as a tug and salvage vessel
Also known as ATLAS NO 108
07/06/1967: Scuttled in the Suez Canal during the "Six Day War"
1974: Raised and broken up
The canal was closed between 05/06/1967 & 05/06/1975


Above photo as ATLAS is courtesy of Jaap Bijl

Above photo as ATLAS is courtesy of David Asprey

Above photo as ATLAS is copyright of South Shields Libraries

Above photo as ATLAS is courtesy of Alan Hughes

Liverpool Journal of Commerce, Thursday, 22/04/1926