Ερμούπολις [Galatea, Wicklow, Ermoupolis]

[Nicholas Peppas]

Truly famous passenger ship that was in the Aegean and Ionian seas more than 30 years!. She was built at the Blackwood & Gordon shipyards in Port Glasgow in 1869 with the name Galatea.

She was bought by Clyde Shipping Co in 1872 and named Wicklow. Here is an old postcard from 1895 that shows a Clyde ship

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Wicklow had 814 tons, length of 68.15 meters and width of 9.1 meters. She was a big ship of her time!

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Truly famous passenger ship that was in the Aegean and Ionian seas more than 30 years!. She was built at the Blackwood & Gordon shipyards in Port Glasgow in 1869 with the name Galatea.
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She was sold to Greece in August 1881** and was named Ermoupolis. As such, she was first a ship of the New Hellenic Steamship Co
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** In his 1997 insert for Efoplistis (p. 46), A. Tzamtzis claims that the ship was a cargo ship that was bought by the Hellenic Steamship Co in 1884.
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[Nicholas Peppas]

Here are the schedules of the New Hellenic Steamship Co including the Ermoupolis in 1887

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[Nicholas Peppas]

A little while later Ermoupolis became a ship of the Kykladiki Shipping Company

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The schedules are from teh same 1997 Tzamtzis insert to Efoplistis

[Nicholas Peppas]

After 1916, Ermoupolis became a ship of the Palios Lines and is shown covering Aegean and Ionian....

Her are some schedules...

16/7/1919, 13/8/1919, 24/11/1919, 18/12/1919

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[Nicholas Peppas]

Clearly, the standard schedule of Ermoupolis was to Kefallinia, Zante and Corfu

Here on 15/1/1920, 28/4/1920. 17/7/1920, 2/8/1920 and 11/8/1920

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[Nicholas Peppas]

Ermoupolis is featured prominently on August 12, 1921

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[Nicholas Peppas]

Ermoupolis post-1922

28/6/1923, 21/6/1924 13/8/1924 13/6/1925

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[Nicholas Peppas]

Ermoupolis in 1925 and 1926

July 14 and November 12, 1925 and September 18, 1926

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[Nicholas Peppas]

Τα ταξιδια του ατμοπλοιου ΕΡΜΟΥΠΟΛΙΣ της Πανελληνιου το 1887.

Απο τον οδηγο
Sandys, John Edwin, Sir
An Easter vacation in Greece, with lists of books on Greek travel and typography, and time-tables of Greek steamers and railways (1887)
Πασχαλινες διακοπες στην Ελλαδα, με λιστα βιβλιων για ταξιδια στην Ελλαδα και δρομολογια Ελληνικων ατμοπλοιων και σιδηροδρομων (1887)
MacMillan, London, 1887

που τον βρισκετε εδω http://www.archive.org/details/eastervacationin00sand

Ταξιδι απο την Ζακυνθο στην Κερκυρα

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[Ellinis]

Ας δούμε και μια παράθεση για τον ερχομό του πλοίου στην Ελλάδα, που επιβεβαιώνει οτι έγινε το 1881.

The second of the three steamers, the Wicklow ("of Glasgow Official Number 60460 William Perfect Lapage Master") arrived in Syros from Cardiff (Wales) on 8 August 1881.
[Letter from British Consul W. P. Binney dated 11th Aug. 1881, found in 1881 Foreign Office volume in the National Archive at Kew, London: National Archive ref. no. FO 32/534, p. 149].
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