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Atlantic

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1904 Atlantic Cockerline & Co. Ltd.
1939 Margareta Oy Margareta Steamship Co. Ab.
1940 Margareta British Government

Fate

In convoy HG-73 On a voyage from Gibraltar for Glasgow with a general cargo including scrap & cork & a crew of 34 Margareta was torpedoed by German submarine U-201 (Adalbert Schnee) & sank off the SW coast of Ireland in 50.15N/17.27W on 27 September 1941. All 34 crew were picked up by HMS Hibiscus & landed at Gibraltar. Master Holger Pihlgren.

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