Nicholas Peppas
09-09-2009, 06:26
Christoforos was a passenger/cargo ship of the Ionian Shipping Co of Yannoulatos. Built as the German ship Kollund at the Lübeck shipyards, she had 832 tons and 57 m length. She was very slow, just 8.5 knots
Here are her characteristics according to Miramar
IDNo: 5609477 Year: 1889
Name: KOLLUND Launch Date: 11.89
Type: Cargo ship Date of completion: 12.89
Flag: DEU Keel:
Tons: 832 Link: 1797
DWT: Yard No: 32
Length overall: Ship Design:
LPP: 57.1 Country of build:
Beam: 9.2 Builder: Koch
Material of build: Location of yard: Lubeck
Number of
screws/Mchy/
Speed(kn): 1T-8.5
Owner as Completed: DG Globus, Flensburg
Naval or paramilitary marking :
A: *
End: 1921
Subsequent History: 99 ALIDE - 11 CHRISTOFOROS
Disposal Data: foundered off Cape Papas 2.1.21
Name Tons Change Main Owner
KOLLUND 832 1889 Globus
ALIDE 832 1899 Noord Nederlandsche
CHRISTOFOROS 832 1911 A.Yannoulatos
She was with Globus in Flensburg, northern Germany, close to Schleswig Holstein from 1889 to 1899. She was sold to a Dutch company and was named Alide
In 1911 she became a Yannoulatos ship named Christoforos and started doing the popular Piraeus, Constantinople, Azof Sea route. Here is an August 23, 1919 when she was going all the way north to Crimea (Theodosia) and Novosibisrk!
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She foundered off Cape Papas (the one west of Patras) on February 1, 1921
Theofilos has drawn Christoforos and I hope this is the same ship. Ellinis?
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Here are her characteristics according to Miramar
IDNo: 5609477 Year: 1889
Name: KOLLUND Launch Date: 11.89
Type: Cargo ship Date of completion: 12.89
Flag: DEU Keel:
Tons: 832 Link: 1797
DWT: Yard No: 32
Length overall: Ship Design:
LPP: 57.1 Country of build:
Beam: 9.2 Builder: Koch
Material of build: Location of yard: Lubeck
Number of
screws/Mchy/
Speed(kn): 1T-8.5
Owner as Completed: DG Globus, Flensburg
Naval or paramilitary marking :
A: *
End: 1921
Subsequent History: 99 ALIDE - 11 CHRISTOFOROS
Disposal Data: foundered off Cape Papas 2.1.21
Name Tons Change Main Owner
KOLLUND 832 1889 Globus
ALIDE 832 1899 Noord Nederlandsche
CHRISTOFOROS 832 1911 A.Yannoulatos
She was with Globus in Flensburg, northern Germany, close to Schleswig Holstein from 1889 to 1899. She was sold to a Dutch company and was named Alide
In 1911 she became a Yannoulatos ship named Christoforos and started doing the popular Piraeus, Constantinople, Azof Sea route. Here is an August 23, 1919 when she was going all the way north to Crimea (Theodosia) and Novosibisrk!
55836
55837
She foundered off Cape Papas (the one west of Patras) on February 1, 1921
Theofilos has drawn Christoforos and I hope this is the same ship. Ellinis?
55838