Category:Molat (ship, 1950)

Name of ship : ATLANTIC DUCHESS (1950-1961), MOLAT (1961-1968), MA.9 (1968-1971), SP.3 (1971-1975)
Gross tonnage : 8631
DWT : 12910
Type of ship : Oil Tanker
Builder : William Gray & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool, yard 1237
Year of build : 1950
Status of ship : Keel Laid → Launched (15/06/1950) → Completed (11/1950) → Converted to storage hulk for INA-Petronafta Zagreb (1968) → Scrapped (04/1975)
Registered owner : Atlantic Oil Carriers (Liberia) Ltd., Monrovia (Stavros Livanos) (1950–1953) → Atlantic Tankers Ltd (1953-1961) → Jugoslavenska Tankerska Plovidba, Zadar (1961-1975)

• Type: Oil Tanker
• Length overall: 500.2 ft
• Draught: 28.0 ft
• Beam: 62.9 ft
• Tons: 8631
• DWT: 12910

• Ship suffered explosion in Swansea 2/2/1951 following maiden round-trip; two halves towed to Graythorp Yard in Hartlepool to be repaired
• Scrapped at Sveti Kajo, still showing her name MOLAT

• http://www.hhtandn.org/hartlepool-ships-and-shipping/shipbuilding/200/grays-shipyard/ship/72/molat
• http://www.teesbuiltships.co.uk/view.php?exact=1&year_built=&builder=&a1Order=yard_number&a1Dir=DESC&a1Page=18&ref=168518&vessel=ATLANTIC+DUCHESS