Nicholas Peppas
23-10-2009, 05:14
Pringipissa Sophia was one of the big, spartan passenger ships of the Diakakis Coastal Shipping Company that graced the Greek seas from 1905 to 1912.
She was built in 1883 by the famous Harland & Wolff of Belfast under the name Dynamic. She had 937 tons, a length of 73.6 m and a width of 9.5 m. She belonged to the Belfast Shipping Co and was doing the Belfast, Liverpool and Derry routes.
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Here are two short articles from the Marine Engineer of 1883 and 1884
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Here is a nice photograph of the ship as Dynamic
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In 1900 she was sold to the Union Comercial de Vapores and renamed Mallorca. In the book Vapores de las Islas Baleares (Miquel Font, Mallorca, 1988), Ramon Sampol Isern writes (pages 91-93) about this Mallorca, a ship that was the second with this name. He calls this ship as "un magnifico buque" and gives her power as 280 HP. He gives her service speed as 14 knots and also as 18 knots "a tiro forzado"! She was bought by the Spaniards in March 1900 for 12,240 British pounds and placed in the line Barcelona-Palma de Mallorca.
Later that summer she assisted the Spanish Government with various military transports. On May 20, 1900 she transferred many pilgrims to Civitavecchia (Rome) for the Holy Year of the Catholic church. After her regular trips to Barcelona, in January 1901 Mallorca was placed in the iine Palma, Barcelona, Malaga, Motril, Valencia, Barcelona, Palma which she was doing in conjunction with the ship Palma, all for the company IsleΓ±a Maritima. In May 1920 she transferred to Union Comercial, Compania de Navigacion a Vapor. Her basic route continued being teh same, although in 1904 a new route was added to Tangiers and Gibraltar (from Palma de Mallorca). She ws sold to Diakakis in 1905 while she was at the harbor of Alicante!
She came to Greece as Pringipissa Sophia and became a Diakakis ship in 1905.
I summarize below her whole history according to Miramar
IDNo: 1086543 Year: 1883
Name: DYNAMIC Launch Date: 19.9.83
Type: Passenger/cargo Date of completion: 13.12.83
Flag: GBR Keel:
Tons: 937 Link: 1600
DWT: Yard No: 162
Length overall: Ship Design:
LPP: Country of build: GBR
Beam: Builder: Harland & Wolff
Material of build: I Location of yard: Belfast
Number of screws/Mchy/ Speed(kn):
Subsequent History: 00 MALLORCA - 05 PRINCIPESSA SOPHIA - 12 ITTIHAD - 16 DOBYCHA - 23 AMBRO
Disposal Data: BU 1q.26
Name Tons Change Registered Owner
DYNAMIC 937 1883 Belfast SS Co
MALLORCA 937 1900 Union Comercial
PRINCIPESSA SOPHIA 937 1905 A.Diakaki & Co
ITTIHAD 937 1912 Ittihad
DOBYCHA 937 1916 Imperial Russian Navy
AMBRO 937 1923 Transitaria Italiana
She was built in 1883 by the famous Harland & Wolff of Belfast under the name Dynamic. She had 937 tons, a length of 73.6 m and a width of 9.5 m. She belonged to the Belfast Shipping Co and was doing the Belfast, Liverpool and Derry routes.
61651
Here are two short articles from the Marine Engineer of 1883 and 1884
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Here is a nice photograph of the ship as Dynamic
61654
In 1900 she was sold to the Union Comercial de Vapores and renamed Mallorca. In the book Vapores de las Islas Baleares (Miquel Font, Mallorca, 1988), Ramon Sampol Isern writes (pages 91-93) about this Mallorca, a ship that was the second with this name. He calls this ship as "un magnifico buque" and gives her power as 280 HP. He gives her service speed as 14 knots and also as 18 knots "a tiro forzado"! She was bought by the Spaniards in March 1900 for 12,240 British pounds and placed in the line Barcelona-Palma de Mallorca.
Later that summer she assisted the Spanish Government with various military transports. On May 20, 1900 she transferred many pilgrims to Civitavecchia (Rome) for the Holy Year of the Catholic church. After her regular trips to Barcelona, in January 1901 Mallorca was placed in the iine Palma, Barcelona, Malaga, Motril, Valencia, Barcelona, Palma which she was doing in conjunction with the ship Palma, all for the company IsleΓ±a Maritima. In May 1920 she transferred to Union Comercial, Compania de Navigacion a Vapor. Her basic route continued being teh same, although in 1904 a new route was added to Tangiers and Gibraltar (from Palma de Mallorca). She ws sold to Diakakis in 1905 while she was at the harbor of Alicante!
She came to Greece as Pringipissa Sophia and became a Diakakis ship in 1905.
I summarize below her whole history according to Miramar
IDNo: 1086543 Year: 1883
Name: DYNAMIC Launch Date: 19.9.83
Type: Passenger/cargo Date of completion: 13.12.83
Flag: GBR Keel:
Tons: 937 Link: 1600
DWT: Yard No: 162
Length overall: Ship Design:
LPP: Country of build: GBR
Beam: Builder: Harland & Wolff
Material of build: I Location of yard: Belfast
Number of screws/Mchy/ Speed(kn):
Subsequent History: 00 MALLORCA - 05 PRINCIPESSA SOPHIA - 12 ITTIHAD - 16 DOBYCHA - 23 AMBRO
Disposal Data: BU 1q.26
Name Tons Change Registered Owner
DYNAMIC 937 1883 Belfast SS Co
MALLORCA 937 1900 Union Comercial
PRINCIPESSA SOPHIA 937 1905 A.Diakaki & Co
ITTIHAD 937 1912 Ittihad
DOBYCHA 937 1916 Imperial Russian Navy
AMBRO 937 1923 Transitaria Italiana