Nicholas Peppas
18-04-2009, 23:30
This is ship with significant history both in Great Britain and in Greece under three different owners. Known (in Greece) as Chalkis (3 years), Naukratoussa (10 years), and Psara (6 years), she is best known as Naukratoussa (note the spelling in English with two "s"; if it had one "s" it would be pronounced with a "z". In addition, inforeign Web sites it appears spelled phonetically as Nafkratoussa).
She was an iron screw steamer, built in 1878 by A. and J. Inglis, at Point-house, Glasgow, in the county of Lanark with the name Azalea. She had a sister ship called Cedar. Both of them were 683 tons, 66.3 m long and 9.2 m wide. Azalea was propelled by two compound-inverted direct-acting engines of 200 HP. The Miramar entry is as follows
Ship Report for "1078646"
IDNo: 1078646 Year: 1878
Name: AZALEA Launch Date: 14.8.78
Type: Passenger/cargo Date of completion: 9.78
Flag: GBR Keel:
Tons: 683 Link: 1566
DWT: 0 Yard No: 148
Length overall: Ship Design:
LPP: 66.3 Country of build: GBR
Beam: 9.2 Builder: Inglis
Material of build: I Location of yard: Pointhouse
Number of
screws/Mchy/
Speed(kn): 1C-
Owner as Completed: Glasgow & Londonderry S.P.Co (A.A.Laird & Co), Gla
Naval or paramilitary marking :
A: *
End: 1939
Subsequent History: 20 CHALKIS - 23 NAFKRATOUSSA - 33 PSARA
Disposal Data: BU Greece 1q.1939
See also http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=1818 The attribution to C. Gambetta in 1914 may be questioned. It is repeated later http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/Mariners/2007-12/1198498940 with the name Chalkis associated with the ship. But was there a Gambetta Line?
Both Azalea and Cedar belonged to the Glasgow, Dublin, and Londonderry Steampacket Company, Limited, of Robertson Street, Glasgow, better known as the Laird Line of Glasgow from the name of her manager Alexander Laird. They were bought to meet the requirements of the West Coast of Ireland trade, and had "excellent saloon accommodation for seventy passengers".
Here is an announcement of the company's routes and ships as well as a 1891 ad of its routes.
35988
35989
In 1888, she was involved in a rather serious accident because her captain had decided to race another ship http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/WreckReports/15355.asp
In 1917 she was requisitioned by the Royal Navy and was taken in the Aegean in December 1917 officially as a "fleet messenger", although she evidently acted as a depot ship for armed trawlers. She was returned to Laird Line in 1919 but did not move back to the UK. Instead she was sold that year (and not in 1920 as the "official sites" indicate) to Panevoiki Line and named Chalkis. Then in 1923 she was sold to Yannoulatos and named Naukratoussa. Under this name she was quite well known and covered several routes. You see below her schedules going to Corfu, to Chios and Mytilene and the Crete in just one week of June 25, 1927 (!)
35990
and to a truly ambitious route of Piraeus, Patras, Leukas, Preveza, Corfu, Aghioi Saranta, Valona (Avlon) and Durres (Dyracchion) on July 20, 1929!!!
35991
In 1933, she was sold to Hellenic Coast Lines (Elliniki Aktoploia) with whom she remained until 1939.
I could not come up with photographs
NB 1: In a recent blog about ancestors, Mr Michael Clarke indicates he has a photograph of Chalkis in 1919 in Sevastoupolis. I have contacted him and I hope to receive an answer. This information is interesting but what bothers me is that the ship is called HMS (his Majesty's ship) and this would not been the designation if she was already Greek and belonging to Panevoiki. Unless of course HMS referred to teh Greek rather than the English King. We'll wait and see. Besides, ellinis has not spoken yet.
"M Clarke" <[email protected]>
Subject: [MAR] HMS Chalkis
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:28:00 -0000
I have 3 Photographs from the effects of an elderly aunt who never married, I think she lost her fiancé in WW1. The photos show a view of HMS Chalkis from the port quarter, 2 Turkish POW's on deck with a White Ensign clearly visible and the third, dated 10/04/1919 shows Russian and English refugees on board at Sebastopol. Does anyone know any thing about this ship? Mike Clarke
NB 2: This ship is not to be confused with another Yannoulatos Naukratoussa, bought by the Greek company in 1914 and lost in the battles of Kallipolis in 1918. See http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=4033 and below
Single Ship Report for "1084313"
IDNo: 1084313 Year: 1881
Name: GORILLA Launch Date: 2.4.81
Type: Passenger/cargo Date of completion:
Flag: GBR Keel:
Tons: 962 Link: 1378
DWT: Yard No: 299
Length overall: Ship Design:
LPP: Country of build: GBR
Beam: Builder: Barclay Curle
Material of build: I Location of yard: Whiteinch
Number of
screws/Mchy/
Speed(kn):
Owner as Completed: J.Burns, Glasgow
Naval or paramilitary marking :
A: *
End: 1918
Subsequent History: 14 NAFKRATOUSSA
Disposal Data:
gunfire off Gallipoli Peninsula 30.1.18
She was an iron screw steamer, built in 1878 by A. and J. Inglis, at Point-house, Glasgow, in the county of Lanark with the name Azalea. She had a sister ship called Cedar. Both of them were 683 tons, 66.3 m long and 9.2 m wide. Azalea was propelled by two compound-inverted direct-acting engines of 200 HP. The Miramar entry is as follows
Ship Report for "1078646"
IDNo: 1078646 Year: 1878
Name: AZALEA Launch Date: 14.8.78
Type: Passenger/cargo Date of completion: 9.78
Flag: GBR Keel:
Tons: 683 Link: 1566
DWT: 0 Yard No: 148
Length overall: Ship Design:
LPP: 66.3 Country of build: GBR
Beam: 9.2 Builder: Inglis
Material of build: I Location of yard: Pointhouse
Number of
screws/Mchy/
Speed(kn): 1C-
Owner as Completed: Glasgow & Londonderry S.P.Co (A.A.Laird & Co), Gla
Naval or paramilitary marking :
A: *
End: 1939
Subsequent History: 20 CHALKIS - 23 NAFKRATOUSSA - 33 PSARA
Disposal Data: BU Greece 1q.1939
See also http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=1818 The attribution to C. Gambetta in 1914 may be questioned. It is repeated later http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/Mariners/2007-12/1198498940 with the name Chalkis associated with the ship. But was there a Gambetta Line?
Both Azalea and Cedar belonged to the Glasgow, Dublin, and Londonderry Steampacket Company, Limited, of Robertson Street, Glasgow, better known as the Laird Line of Glasgow from the name of her manager Alexander Laird. They were bought to meet the requirements of the West Coast of Ireland trade, and had "excellent saloon accommodation for seventy passengers".
Here is an announcement of the company's routes and ships as well as a 1891 ad of its routes.
35988
35989
In 1888, she was involved in a rather serious accident because her captain had decided to race another ship http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/WreckReports/15355.asp
In 1917 she was requisitioned by the Royal Navy and was taken in the Aegean in December 1917 officially as a "fleet messenger", although she evidently acted as a depot ship for armed trawlers. She was returned to Laird Line in 1919 but did not move back to the UK. Instead she was sold that year (and not in 1920 as the "official sites" indicate) to Panevoiki Line and named Chalkis. Then in 1923 she was sold to Yannoulatos and named Naukratoussa. Under this name she was quite well known and covered several routes. You see below her schedules going to Corfu, to Chios and Mytilene and the Crete in just one week of June 25, 1927 (!)
35990
and to a truly ambitious route of Piraeus, Patras, Leukas, Preveza, Corfu, Aghioi Saranta, Valona (Avlon) and Durres (Dyracchion) on July 20, 1929!!!
35991
In 1933, she was sold to Hellenic Coast Lines (Elliniki Aktoploia) with whom she remained until 1939.
I could not come up with photographs
NB 1: In a recent blog about ancestors, Mr Michael Clarke indicates he has a photograph of Chalkis in 1919 in Sevastoupolis. I have contacted him and I hope to receive an answer. This information is interesting but what bothers me is that the ship is called HMS (his Majesty's ship) and this would not been the designation if she was already Greek and belonging to Panevoiki. Unless of course HMS referred to teh Greek rather than the English King. We'll wait and see. Besides, ellinis has not spoken yet.
"M Clarke" <[email protected]>
Subject: [MAR] HMS Chalkis
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:28:00 -0000
I have 3 Photographs from the effects of an elderly aunt who never married, I think she lost her fiancé in WW1. The photos show a view of HMS Chalkis from the port quarter, 2 Turkish POW's on deck with a White Ensign clearly visible and the third, dated 10/04/1919 shows Russian and English refugees on board at Sebastopol. Does anyone know any thing about this ship? Mike Clarke
NB 2: This ship is not to be confused with another Yannoulatos Naukratoussa, bought by the Greek company in 1914 and lost in the battles of Kallipolis in 1918. See http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=4033 and below
Single Ship Report for "1084313"
IDNo: 1084313 Year: 1881
Name: GORILLA Launch Date: 2.4.81
Type: Passenger/cargo Date of completion:
Flag: GBR Keel:
Tons: 962 Link: 1378
DWT: Yard No: 299
Length overall: Ship Design:
LPP: Country of build: GBR
Beam: Builder: Barclay Curle
Material of build: I Location of yard: Whiteinch
Number of
screws/Mchy/
Speed(kn):
Owner as Completed: J.Burns, Glasgow
Naval or paramilitary marking :
A: *
End: 1918
Subsequent History: 14 NAFKRATOUSSA
Disposal Data:
gunfire off Gallipoli Peninsula 30.1.18