Nicholas Peppas
24-06-2009, 05:13
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.
Second, here is Sparta
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Sparta was built for Panhellenic Line in 1891 by Gourlay Bros & Co in Dundee, Scotland, She had 2,492 tons, a length of 103,5 m (!), a width of 12 m and a service speed of 10 knots. She had a single screw, triple expansion engine. She carried 20 passengers in first class and 32 in Third class along with more than 150 on deck.
She served the Greek waters and covered long distance routes to Alexandria, Constantinople, Odessa and Marseilles.
In 1895 she was sold to the French Messageries Maritimes, renamed Sidon and placed in the London-Marseilles-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/showpos...55&postcount=5 (http://www.nautilia.gr/forum/showpost.php?p=191255&postcount=5)
Here is a postcard showing her as she is leaving Marseilles around 1910 courtesy of Monsieur P. Ramona http://www.es-conseil.fr/pramona/sidon.htm
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In 1912 she went back to Le Ciotat and was furnished with new boilers. Then she was placed to the Madagascar-Reunion Island feeder service.
She was broken early, in 1922, in Marseilles.
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.
Second, here is Sparta
45532
Sparta was built for Panhellenic Line in 1891 by Gourlay Bros & Co in Dundee, Scotland, She had 2,492 tons, a length of 103,5 m (!), a width of 12 m and a service speed of 10 knots. She had a single screw, triple expansion engine. She carried 20 passengers in first class and 32 in Third class along with more than 150 on deck.
She served the Greek waters and covered long distance routes to Alexandria, Constantinople, Odessa and Marseilles.
In 1895 she was sold to the French Messageries Maritimes, renamed Sidon and placed in the London-Marseilles-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/showpos...55&postcount=5 (http://www.nautilia.gr/forum/showpost.php?p=191255&postcount=5)
Here is a postcard showing her as she is leaving Marseilles around 1910 courtesy of Monsieur P. Ramona http://www.es-conseil.fr/pramona/sidon.htm
45534
In 1912 she went back to Le Ciotat and was furnished with new boilers. Then she was placed to the Madagascar-Reunion Island feeder service.
She was broken early, in 1922, in Marseilles.