November 23, 1963 was the date that US President JF Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. I was a young high school student in Exarheia, Athens and I will never forget that day...
I have attached the top of the cover page of Kathimerini that day.
I am now showing you the schedules of all our passenger ships that wintery November day of 1963, 45 years ago. Notice that the early days of the 1960s were still prehistory for the Greek passenger ships. They were small, less than 2,500 tons, some no more tan 800 tons... Herakleion and Sophocles Venizelos had not arrived yet and he route Piraeus-Crete was done by much smaller vessels like Ekaterini and Polikos ! Herakleion brought us in the middle 1960 to the 7,000 tons, an unheard of tonnage for this route! Little did we know that when Herakleion sank in 1966 this was the end of our innocence.
So, enjoy what was going on 45 years ago!
An unabashed romantic...
Nikos Peppas
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