Thanks for the memories on Lemnos Ellinis. Indeed she was built as a Flower class corvette in Midland, Ontario Canada in 1943. She was renamed North Shore in 1946. I never understood why Typaldos bought her in 1961, except that she was faster with respect to other small ships of the times... By the mid 1960s she had been demoted to agones grammes
In 1966 she is listed on the following routes: Piraeus, St. Nikolaos, Sitia, Kassos, Karpathos, Rhodes. Also Piraeus, Kea, Kythnos, Serifos, Sifnos, Kimolos, Milos. Finally, Piraeus, Syros, Paros, Apollonia, Donoussa, Aigiali, Katapola, Koufonissia, Shinoussa, Herakleion, Ios, Oia, Thira, Ios, Naxos, Paros, Syros, Piraeus
If you did not live in that period, you could not understand what the last route meant!!! Believe me, in the 1960s, there was rarely a ship going from Piraeus to Donoussa, Koufonissia and Shinoussa (where is Irakleia?). Typically, you had to go to Naxos and then take a smaller boat to these lesser Cyclades!