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ÅõóôñÜôéïò Êáâïõíßäçò [Reka, Aphroditi, Alexandria, Virginia, Tunisien]
Eustratios Kavounides was a ship that acted both as cargo and passenger ship with about 8 years in the Greek waters...
She was built at Lloyd Austriaco in Trieste in 1883 and had the name Reka. She had 1,084 tons, a length of 69.3 m and a width of 9.3 m.
It is interesting to read about Lloyd Austriaco
ÐáñÜèåóç:
Lloyd Austriaco / Austrian Lloyd Started steamship operations in 1836 based at Trieste, which was then under Austrian rule. Initially traded to the Adriatic and later extended to the rest of the Mediterranean, India and the Far East. The company name changed in 1872 to Austrian Hungarian Lloyd (Lloyd Austro-Ungarico) but reverted to Austrian Lloyd in 1891. In 1881 the company company started services to New York, Brazil and the River Plate, but only made one New York voyage, which was not a financial success. Sailings to South America continued until 1885 when the service was withdrawn. Other routes flourished and by 1886 the company owned 86 ships. Services were suspended during the Great War and the company was re-established as Lloyd Triestino under the Italian flag in 1919. Austrian Lloyd was reconstituted in 1978 as a cargo company.
She passed through many owners before arriving in Greece as as Eustratios Kavounides for Philippos Kavounides in 1922. Miramar gives a summary. No reason to repeat it.
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IDNo: 5608475 Year: 1883
Name: REKA Keel: 5.83
Type: Cargo ship Launch Date: 10.83
Flag: AUH Date of completion: 12.83
Tons: 1084 Link: 2008
DWT: 1344 Yard No: 37
Length overall: Ship Design:
LPP: 69.3 Country of build:
Beam: 9.3 Builder: Lloyd Austriaco
Material of build: I Location of yard: Trieste
Subsequent History: 95 APHRODITI - 03 ALEXANDRIA - 09 VIRGINIA - 15 TUNISIEN - 16 VICTOIRE - 22 EFSTRATIOS CAVOUNIDES - 30 RUSTEMIYE
Disposal Data: BU Turkey 3q.35
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Name Tons Change Registered Owner
REKA 1084 1883 Lloyd Austriaco
APHRODITI 1065 1895 Paquebots Postes
ALEXANDRIA 1065 1903 Paquebots Postes
VIRGINIA 1065 1909 Arch. American
TUNISIEN 1065 1915 French Navy FRA
VICTOIRE 1065 1916 H.G.Stephan
EUSTRATIOS KAVOUNIDES 1065 1922 P.Kavounides
RUSTEMIYE 1065 1930 Rustem
Let me also bring here interesting comments from an important site
http://pages14-18.mesdiscussions.net...jet_1779_1.htm
ÐáñÜèåóç:
TUNISIEN – Cargo de 1084 t, mis Γ* flot sous le nom de Reka, en Octobre 1883 Γ* Trieste, par la Lloyd Austriaco, pour le compte de lΆAustrian Lloyd. Au grΓ© de ses cessions, ce bΓΆtiment sera successivement renommΓ© :
– Aphroditi en 1895 (Paquebots Postes) ;
– Alexandria en 1903 (Paquebots Postes) ;
– Virginia en 1909 (Arch. American) ;
– Tunisien en 1915 (Marine franΓ§aise) ;
– Victoire en 1916 (H. G. Stephan) ;
– Eustratios Cavounides en 1922 (P. Cavounides) ;
– Rustemiye en 1930 (Rustem).
Puis il sera dΓ©moli en Turquie, en 1935.
RelevΓ© par Franck dans lΆouvrage du Commandant de vaisseau A. Thomazi: « La Guerre navale dans la MΓ©diterranΓ©e », prΓ©face du vice-amiral Dumesnil, Payot, 1929 :
« Quelques vapeurs appartenant Γ* des sujets ennemis, ou se livrant Γ* un trafic illicite sous pavillon neutre, sont saisis et armΓ©s avec des Γ©quipages de prise : le Persepolis battant pavillon persan, l'Indiana et le Virginia qui portaient sans droit les couleurs amΓ©ricaines, sont inscrits sur les listes de la flotte sous les noms de Ninive, Indien et Tunisien. Mais ils ne demeurent pas dans la troisiΓ¨me escadre, et sont affectΓ©s, dΓ¨s leur armement, Γ* la deuxiΓ¨me escadre lΓ©gΓ¨re ou Γ* la base de Lemnos. »
En 1917, le bΓΆtiment Γ©tait dΓ©nommΓ© Victoire et non plus Tunisien ; par surcroΓ®t, il Γ©tait en possession de lΆarmement H. G. Stephan et non plus de la Marine franΓ§aise.
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Dans le SR de 1883 :
REKA (steel) AT 1C
1,065 Lloyd Austro-Ungarico, Trieste 221.9 x 31.5
C Arsenale di Lloyd Austro-Ungarico, Trieste (10) #36
92 - Lloyd Austriaco, Trieste
95 - APHRODITI Paquebots Postes l'Archipel (Haci Davut Farkuni Vapurlari), Izmir TU
03 - ALEXANDRIA s/o
09 - VIRGINIA Archipelago American SS. Co. (G. Farkouh), Smyrna US
Intercepted by French cruiser JEANNE DΆARC, 7 July 1915 in 36N-29.45E, voy. Piraeus - Mersin, requisitioned
9/15 - TUNISIEN French Navy – despatch vessel FR
Ordered returned to owners by French Prize Court, May 1916
7/16 - VICTOIRE H. G. Stephan, Marseille FR
10/16 - in custody of French Consul at Port Said, handed 7/17 to L. Savon Bros., Port Said as agents for Archipelago-American SS. Co.
Arrested 30 Oct 1917 at Marseille and laid up
19 - French Government – Commissariat aux Transports Maritimes, Marseille
22 - EFSTRATIOS CAVOUNIDES Ph. Cavounides, Piraeus GR
27 - (EUSTRATIOS CAVOUNIDES) s/o
30 - RUSTEMΔ°YE Ingliz HΓΌseyin RΓΌstem, Istanbul TU
Broken up 3rd quarter 1935
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CONCLUSIONS!!!!
Eustratios Kavounides was the ship Virginia of the Archipelago American SS. Co. of G. Farkouh!
Also Alexandria of the Archipelago American SS. Co. of G. Farkouh! The Ottoman shipping company Hadji Daoud Farkouh had also Greek interests. The Hadji Daoud Farkouh Shipping Co, otherwise known as Aktoploia Archipelagou had a very wide range of routes across the Aegean. For example, in Rudolf Fitzner's Kleinasien und Syrien (Volckmann, Rostock, 1904), the following routes are given:
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Just before the end of the Ottoman empire, members of the Farkouh family transferred most of the shipping company to the US flag (see also http://hadjidaoud.blogspot.com/2008/...elsewhere.html)
In the The New York Times, 14 February 1915 it is stated:
ÐáñÜèåóç:
Advices received here today from Constantinople say that the Turkish government will protest against the
sinking by the Russians of the steamship Washington while sailing under the American flag. The vessel is reported to have been sunk on Feb. 8 while engaged in carrying Red Cross supplies between Constantinople and Trebizond.The Washington was owned by the Archipelago-American Steamship Company, which controls a fleet of boats named after American States and playing between American ports. The steamship Texas, which struck a mine and sank in the Gulf of Smyrna in May 1912, at the time of the
Turkish-Italian war, belonged to this line.
The Archipelago-American Steamship Company is
owned in large parts by naturalized Greeks, and is chartered under the Maine laws, though no American registry has been granted to its vessels.
At the time of an anti-Greek boycott directed against the ships of this company some years ago, however, the line was authorized to fly the American flag by the American Consul at Smyrna because the company was largely controlled by American interests.
