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M.V. ATLANTIC CITY, photograph
Contact sheet of 12 colour photographs showing the M.V. ATLANTIC CITY docking at an unknown port (possibly at Emden, Germany). Shows ship at berth, and cadets at mealtime and in cabin.
ATLANTIC CITY. Ore carrier built 1967 by Fairfields Ltd., Glasgow, for Reardon Smith Line. 1976 – Sold to Aquarius Ltd., Liberia and renamed ATLANTIC (managed by Wm. Reardon Smith & Son Ltd). 1979 – Sold to Grupo TMM, Mexico and renamed OLMECA. (The name OLMECA was transferred a year later to another former Reardon Smith ship, FRESNO CITY). 1980 – Sold to Libmar Five Inc., Liberia and renamed ORIENT CORAL. Managed by Golden Ocean Services (UK) Ltd., London. She was broken up at Dalian, China in 1985. (ref: - clydesite.co.uk)(histarmar.org)(7seasvessels.com)(grupotmm.com)