Nicholas Peppas
24-06-2009, 04:21
Recently, Ellinis wrote http://www.nautilia.gr/forum/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=169 about the three sisters of the Panhellenic (Panhellenios) of Piraeus
Τα τρία αδελφάκια -ΙΩΝΙΑ, ΘΡΑΚΗ και ΑΛΒΑΝΙΑ- ήταν από τα ελάχιστα νεότευκτα που εντάχθηκαν στην ακτοπλοϊα της εποχής. Ανάμεσα σε μετασκευασμένες θαλαμηγούς, φορτηγοποστάλια και υπερήλικα σκαριά, για αρκετά χρόνια θα αποτελούσαν τη ραχοκοκκαλιά της ακτοπλοϊας.
These three were built in 1887. There were three other ships of Panhellenic (Panhellenios) of Piraeus that were built in 1891 but stayed in Greece only until 1895: Athenai, Sparta and Byzantion.
First, here is Athenai. Byt teh way, the title Aθήναι της Πανελληνίου was used to distinguish her from another passenger ship Athenai.
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Athenai was built for Panhellenic Line in 1891 by Gourlay Bros & Co in Dundee, Scotland, She had 2,492 tons, a length of 96.8 m (!), a width of 11.94 m and a service speed of 10 knots. She had a single screw, triple expansion engine. She carried 24 passengers in first class and 16 in second class along with more than 200 on deck.
She served the Greek waters and covered long distance routes to Alexandria, Constantinople, Odessa and Marseilles.
Baedeker's 1894 schedules of Panhellinios showing all the possible routes of Athenai
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In 1895 she was sold to the French Messageries Maritimes
She was bought by Messageries Maritimes, renamed Bagdad and placed in the Mediterranean-Black Sea route until about 1909 and then in the Marseilles-Madagascar route. For her Mediterranean-Black Sea route see my article in http://www.nautilia.gr/forum/showthread.php?t=60301 and especially http://www.nautilia.gr/forum/showpost.php?p=191255&postcount=5
Here is a postcard from Marseilles around 1910 courtesy of Monsieur P Romona http://www.es-conseil.fr/pramona/bagdad.htm
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But most of her life she was in the Indian Ocean as shown here in Tananarive, the main port of Madagascar, in 1930.
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Bagdad's truly unusual routes during that period were the following:
1. Diego Suarez to the Comoro Islands and Zanzibar (today's Tanzania).
2. Diego Suarez to various ports on the east and west coasts of Madagascar, Lourenço Marques (Mozambique) and Durban (South Africa).
During that period she faced numerous cyclones. On December 23, 1933 she was badly knocked about by a cyclone off Mahanoro. She was put in Tamatave to land passengers and then went to Diego Suarez for repairs.
On November 29, 1935 in gusty weather she went ashore on Cap Lahatrozona, Madagascar. All were saved but the ship was a total loss.
Τα τρία αδελφάκια -ΙΩΝΙΑ, ΘΡΑΚΗ και ΑΛΒΑΝΙΑ- ήταν από τα ελάχιστα νεότευκτα που εντάχθηκαν στην ακτοπλοϊα της εποχής. Ανάμεσα σε μετασκευασμένες θαλαμηγούς, φορτηγοποστάλια και υπερήλικα σκαριά, για αρκετά χρόνια θα αποτελούσαν τη ραχοκοκκαλιά της ακτοπλοϊας.
These three were built in 1887. There were three other ships of Panhellenic (Panhellenios) of Piraeus that were built in 1891 but stayed in Greece only until 1895: Athenai, Sparta and Byzantion.
First, here is Athenai. Byt teh way, the title Aθήναι της Πανελληνίου was used to distinguish her from another passenger ship Athenai.
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Athenai was built for Panhellenic Line in 1891 by Gourlay Bros & Co in Dundee, Scotland, She had 2,492 tons, a length of 96.8 m (!), a width of 11.94 m and a service speed of 10 knots. She had a single screw, triple expansion engine. She carried 24 passengers in first class and 16 in second class along with more than 200 on deck.
She served the Greek waters and covered long distance routes to Alexandria, Constantinople, Odessa and Marseilles.
Baedeker's 1894 schedules of Panhellinios showing all the possible routes of Athenai
45544
In 1895 she was sold to the French Messageries Maritimes
She was bought by Messageries Maritimes, renamed Bagdad and placed in the Mediterranean-Black Sea route until about 1909 and then in the Marseilles-Madagascar route. For her Mediterranean-Black Sea route see my article in http://www.nautilia.gr/forum/showthread.php?t=60301 and especially http://www.nautilia.gr/forum/showpost.php?p=191255&postcount=5
Here is a postcard from Marseilles around 1910 courtesy of Monsieur P Romona http://www.es-conseil.fr/pramona/bagdad.htm
45529
But most of her life she was in the Indian Ocean as shown here in Tananarive, the main port of Madagascar, in 1930.
45530
Bagdad's truly unusual routes during that period were the following:
1. Diego Suarez to the Comoro Islands and Zanzibar (today's Tanzania).
2. Diego Suarez to various ports on the east and west coasts of Madagascar, Lourenço Marques (Mozambique) and Durban (South Africa).
During that period she faced numerous cyclones. On December 23, 1933 she was badly knocked about by a cyclone off Mahanoro. She was put in Tamatave to land passengers and then went to Diego Suarez for repairs.
On November 29, 1935 in gusty weather she went ashore on Cap Lahatrozona, Madagascar. All were saved but the ship was a total loss.