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Ellinis
Nick, this is very interesting... did you have the chance to check the ownership of Philadelphia? Just to be sure that Stephanides was not behind this company.
The information I got here at the Genealogical Library from Salt Lake City, UT comes from a book I had not seen before F. E. Emmons,
American Passenger Ships: The Ocean Lines and Liners, 1873-1983, The University of Delaware Press, Newark, DE, 1985.
The book verifies your stories. Indeed,
Philadelphia was another name of the
City of Paris used after her grounding off the coast of Cornwall on May 21, 1899. At that time she was refitted and re-engined at Belfast and became
Philadelphia. Her first trip under the new name was Southampton-New York on August 31, 1901. Her name changed to
U.S.S. Harrisburg during the May 1918 to September 1919 period when she was used for returning troops after World War I.
The new information here is that she was sold to the
New York-Naples Steamship Co, a company owned by Stefanides. As the name hints, this was an ephimeral company, just to bring the ship to Naples... It looks like there was no intention to put her back in the transatlantic trade as she was in very bad shape both mechanically and in her interior.... It is not surprising there was a mutiny and scuttling in the ship.... Anyhow, the end of the great
City of Paris of Inman Lines was as you described and with scrapping in Genoa, Italy, after September 1923.
I have a sketch of
Philadelphia from Emmons's book that I will scan when I return home.
Please look at some wonderful pictures and postcards of
Philadelphia in
http://www.bigbertis.com/ssphila.htm