Atlantic Corp.

Portsmouth NH

The Atlantic Corp. shipyard was established in 1918, on the site of a failed paper factory in the area of the Piscataqua River Bridge, and folded in 1920. The company also built a housing estate for its workers, adjacent to the shipyard. The shipyard site is now occupied by a Boise Cascade plant and a National Gypsum plant. You used to be able to see the shadow of the old launch ways under the water, in line with the axis of the National Gypsum plant, which must have been built on the foundations used by the shipyard's fabrication shop. The building with the black roof is believed to be the only one on the site that dates back to the shipyard. The housing estate is just to the northwest, separated from the shipyard by I-95.

USSB # O/N Name Customer Type GT Delivered Notes
1 987 218185 Kisnop USSB freighter 5,500 Aug 1919 to Britain 1941 as Empire Dabchick, torpedoed and lost 1942
2 988 218695 Babboosic USSB freighter 5,500 Sep 1919 scrapped 1933
3 989 219119 Portsmouth USSB freighter 5,500 Oct 1919 scrapped 1931
4 990 219321 Nipmuc USSB freighter 5,500 Dec 1919 scrapped 1936
5 991 219544 Norumbega USSB freighter 5,500 Feb 1920 scrapped 1931
6 992 219998 Brookline USSB freighter 5,500 May 1920 later O'Brien Brothers 1931, Valiente 1940, Guatemala 1941, torpedoed and lost 1942
7 993 220127 Springfield USSB freighter 5,500 June 1920 scrapped 1936
8 994 220353 Tolosa USSB freighter 5,500 Sep 1920 to Britain 1940 as Empire Dorado, in collision and lost 1941
9 995 220448 Pachet USSB freighter 5,500 Nov 1920 scrapped 1932
10 996 220710 Pagasset USSB freighter 5,500 Dec 1920 later Colabee 1937, torpedoed 1942 off Cuba but repaired, Betsy Olson 1950, Chukoh Maru 1953, scrapped 1960

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