Category:Bannockburn (ship, 1886)

English: The Bannockburn was an iron-hulled four-masted ship built in 1886 by Barclay, Curle & Co, Glasgow (yard No 341) for R. Shankland & Co, Greenock. Dimensions: length × beam × depth = 287 × 42.4 × 24.1 ft (87.4 × 12.9 × 7.3 m). Tonnages 2,068 GRT, 2,000 NRT. Rigged in "jubilee" fashion, i.e. with nothing over double top- and topgallant sails. 1894 re-rigged to a four-masted barque. In 1905 she was sold to Akties. Bannockburn (Leif Gundersen), Porsgrund (Norway). In 1915 she was renamed Leif Gundersen. On 10 May 1917 she was declared a French prize and renamed Atlas of Lorient. In July 1917 she sailed from Glasgow in ballast for the West Indies. She was last seen passing Torr Head on 20 July. An unidentified four-masted barque was sunk by the German submarine U-30 200 miles west of Fastnet on 28 July 1917. It is generally believed this was Atlas.^[1][2][3]