Atlantis
1930
(Albatros AL-39)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 15,135 tons
- Dimensions: 589 x 67 x 28 ft.
- Machinery: Steam triple expansion with exhaust turbine, triple screw = 17 knots
- Passengers: 450 all first class
- Builder: Harland & Wolff Ltd, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1913
- Service: Built as Andes, intended for Pacific Steam Navigation Co., but taken over by Royal Mail Lines before launching. Accomodated 380 first class, 250 second class, and 700 third class passengers. Maiden voyage 26 Sep 1913 Liverpool-Chile for PSN, then Southampton-La Plata service for Royal Mail. Auxiliary cruiser with 10th Cruiser Squadron Apr 1915. On 29 Feb 1916 she and sister Alcantara engaged the German auxiliary cruiser Greif in the North Sea between the Shetlands and Norway. Both Alcantara and Greif were sunk in the action and Andes rescued the survivors of both ships.
First postwar voyage 4 Nov 1919 Southampton-La Plata. In 1930 fitted out as a cruise liner and renamed Atlantis as shown here. Sold Sep 1939 to British government for service as a hospital ship, managed by Royal Mail Lines. Reconstructed 1948 for emigrant service to Australia and New Zealand with capacity for 900 third class passengers. Broken up 1952 at Faslane.
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