Nicholas Peppas
06-07-2009, 05:10
Starting with an innocent posting in http://www.nautilia.gr/forum/showpost.php?p=198754&postcount=10
Ellinis, Roi Baudoin and have been talking about the very early days of Rafina (pre-1940) as a starting point of coastal shipping, north to Aliveri, Chalkida, Limne and Aedipsos (in the pre-war years), north-east to Styra and Marmari, east to Karystos and south east to the Cyclades and everywhere else
In these discussions, we have identified three (perhaps even four) pre-War passenger ships with the name Aetos that I would like to summarize here along with new information I have discovered.
1. The "1908 Aetos"
The first Aetos is the ship that appeared in several ads from 1908 that I discovered in Embros. Can you imagine that Rafina had passenger ship service 101 years ago? Here are the advertisements from the newspaper Embros of July 7, 10, 13 and 16, 1908.
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The ship Aetos was serving both the routes to Cyclades and towards Chalkida. This ad is quite surprising! Read below.
Aetos was going to:
1. Rafina, Marmari, Karystos, Gaurio, Batsi, Gaurio (again?) and Ysternia Tenou.
2. Rafina, Styra, Grammatiko (!), Aliverion, Vatheia (!) and Oropos! Now, have you seen before a passenger ship going to Grammatiko and Oropos from Rafina or any other port? I have not! By the way, the "port" of Grammatiko could be Aghia Marina or perhaps some little village like Aghios Dimitrios. As for Vatheia, that's definitely today's Amarynthos.
3. Rafina, Karystos, Marmari, Styra, Aliverion and Chalkis
But who was the owner of this one? I have a 1920 booklet with Athenian stores. It includes a store for dry foods by Mavrommatis in Sophokleous. This is the same shop where one could buy tickets according to the ad ... Was he the owner? Who knows?
Also three more questions:
1. Why do all four ads say the ship will depart on the "10th of the current month"? Why would a company place adds after the 10th if the departure is on the 10th? Do they mean that services started on the 10th?
2. Why did these ads disappear after the 16th of July 1908?
3...Why isn't there any reference of an Aetos ship in Miramar or in Tzamtzis' works? Mystery!
And the piece de resistance is that the passengers were transferred from Athens to Rafina by bus in 1908 (!!!). What kind of buses were these? in 1908?
Buses were leaving at 6:00 am and the boat at 10:00 am. Evidently, it was taking 3 hours to arrive?
The other two Aetos'
2. The Striftoulis Aetos (http://www.nautilia.gr/forum/showthread.php?t=76311&highlight=aetos)
Another Aetos passenger ship belonged to Striftoulis, a merchant of dry goods in Sophokleous Str in Athens and seemed to be active from 1933-1941.
See http://www.nautilia.gr/forum/showpost.php?p=199898&postcount=13
3. The Riggas' Aetos (http://www.nautilia.gr/forum/showthread.php?t=94150&highlight=aetos)
Ellinis, Roi Baudoin and have been talking about the very early days of Rafina (pre-1940) as a starting point of coastal shipping, north to Aliveri, Chalkida, Limne and Aedipsos (in the pre-war years), north-east to Styra and Marmari, east to Karystos and south east to the Cyclades and everywhere else
In these discussions, we have identified three (perhaps even four) pre-War passenger ships with the name Aetos that I would like to summarize here along with new information I have discovered.
1. The "1908 Aetos"
The first Aetos is the ship that appeared in several ads from 1908 that I discovered in Embros. Can you imagine that Rafina had passenger ship service 101 years ago? Here are the advertisements from the newspaper Embros of July 7, 10, 13 and 16, 1908.
47899479004790147902
The ship Aetos was serving both the routes to Cyclades and towards Chalkida. This ad is quite surprising! Read below.
Aetos was going to:
1. Rafina, Marmari, Karystos, Gaurio, Batsi, Gaurio (again?) and Ysternia Tenou.
2. Rafina, Styra, Grammatiko (!), Aliverion, Vatheia (!) and Oropos! Now, have you seen before a passenger ship going to Grammatiko and Oropos from Rafina or any other port? I have not! By the way, the "port" of Grammatiko could be Aghia Marina or perhaps some little village like Aghios Dimitrios. As for Vatheia, that's definitely today's Amarynthos.
3. Rafina, Karystos, Marmari, Styra, Aliverion and Chalkis
But who was the owner of this one? I have a 1920 booklet with Athenian stores. It includes a store for dry foods by Mavrommatis in Sophokleous. This is the same shop where one could buy tickets according to the ad ... Was he the owner? Who knows?
Also three more questions:
1. Why do all four ads say the ship will depart on the "10th of the current month"? Why would a company place adds after the 10th if the departure is on the 10th? Do they mean that services started on the 10th?
2. Why did these ads disappear after the 16th of July 1908?
3...Why isn't there any reference of an Aetos ship in Miramar or in Tzamtzis' works? Mystery!
And the piece de resistance is that the passengers were transferred from Athens to Rafina by bus in 1908 (!!!). What kind of buses were these? in 1908?
Buses were leaving at 6:00 am and the boat at 10:00 am. Evidently, it was taking 3 hours to arrive?
The other two Aetos'
2. The Striftoulis Aetos (http://www.nautilia.gr/forum/showthread.php?t=76311&highlight=aetos)
Another Aetos passenger ship belonged to Striftoulis, a merchant of dry goods in Sophokleous Str in Athens and seemed to be active from 1933-1941.
See http://www.nautilia.gr/forum/showpost.php?p=199898&postcount=13
3. The Riggas' Aetos (http://www.nautilia.gr/forum/showthread.php?t=94150&highlight=aetos)