Hartlepool History Then & Now

Atalanta - a general history

Official No. 1040: Code Letters RDJW: Code Letters HGLS.

Owners: 1872 Deutsche Dampschiffs Rhederi, Hamburg, Germany: 1887 Asano Soichiro, Tokyo-renamed Kanazawa Maru: 1898 Teikoku Shosen KK, Tokyo: 1900 Fujii Kichijiro, Osaka: 1901 Kiodo Kissen, Nawa, Japan: 1902 Kagoshima Yusen, Kagoshima, Japan: 1908 Kagoshima Yusen, KK Kagoshima, Japan 1917 T Hayashi, Nishinomiya, Japan: 1919 Hachiuma Kanesuke, Nishinomya, Japan: 1926 Hachiuma KK Nishinomya, Japan.

Masters: 1872-74 Reich: 1876-87 G Petersen: 1887-89 Thamser: 1891-95 Nakamura Tokiyochi: 1898-99 K Toyoshima.

Bound from Fusan for Tokio with a cargo of rice Kanazawa Maru was stranded & sank in 150 fathoms of water in Kurushima Strait on 26 November 1927.