Only one built.
This aircraft was built to win the prize offer by the Daily Mail in 1913 for the first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic. The prize was for £10,000. It was not until after WWI that three aircraft attempted to collect this prize.
The landing gear on the Atlantic were jettisonable to reduce drag. A lift boat was built into the fuselage behind the cockpit in case of ditching. Skids were built into the bottom of the fuselage for landing.
The Atlantic departed Newfoundland on May 18, 1919. Engine cooling problems developed. On the morning of the 19th Harry Hawker and navigator Kenneth Mackenzie Grieve turned south to the shipping lanes. They ditched the Atlantic about a mile in front of the SS Mary of Denmark. The life boat worked and they were picked up by the SS Mary.
Powered by a 375 hp Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII
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The salvaged Sopwith Atlantic on the roof of Selfridge's, Oxford Street.
The Martinsyde Type A, The Raymor, crashed on takeoff at Quidi Vidi, Newfoundland, on July 17, 1919, with F. P. Raynham and Capt C. W. F. Morgan. Both survived.
A Vickers Vimy flown by John Alcock and Arthur Brown won the prise with their flight from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, County Galway, Ireland. Landing and noseing over at 8:40 a.m. on June 15, 1919.
