Atlantic | National Historic Ships

Registration number 3595

Status Registered

paula.palmer

Previous names

1940 - 2019 ATLANTIC

Details

Function Service Vessel

Subfunction Icebreaker

Location Tamworth

Vessel type Tug

Current use Private use

Available to hire No

Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Harris Brothers, Netherton

Built in 1940

Hull material Iron

Rig None

Number of decks 1

Propulsion Motor

Number of engines 1

Primary engine type Diesel

Boiler type None

Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam

6.50 feet (1.98m)

Depth

3.00 feet (0.91m)

Air Draft

3.00 feet (0.91m)

Length: Overall

40.00 feet (12.19m)

Tonnage: Gross

10.00

History

ATLANTIC was built by Harris Bros of Bumble Hole, Netherton, around 1940 for Yates and Co. of Norton Canes, for a wartime coal contract. She is a 40ft tug with ice-breaking bows. She continued working for Yates until nationalisation in 1953, after which she was used by British Waterways on the No.4 district of the Birmingham Canal Navigations. She normally worked on icebreaking duties on the Walsall Level, where ice conditions were not severe. Her original engine was a 2 cylinder Dorman Long. The British Waterways Board sold her about 1970 to Alfred Matty of Coseley, who removed the original engine, shaft and prop, leaving her on a bank. She was bought by her present owners in 1983.

Key dates

1940
Built by Harris Bros of Bumble Hole, Netherton for Yates and Co. of Norton Canes, for a wartime coal contract
1953
Worked for Yates until nationalisation, then on Birmingham Canal Navigations mainly for icebreaking duties on Walsall Level
1970
Sold by British Waterways to Alfred Matty of Coseley who removed original engine, shaft and prop
1983
Bought by present owners