The "Hermes" made her inaugural call at Famagusta and Limassol on June 29, 1961. The crew was really well selected, not starting, however, from the Captain, Demetris Potamianos, a distant member of the owners' family, who was a real sea-warrior but always untidy and with his cap on in a funny oblique way. Captain Demetri or better Kapetan Mitsos as they used to call him had, like everyone else, his own hobby. He liked inviting beautiful ladies to the bridge to show them his album of photographs demonstrating his achievements in his whole life at sea and offering them, to start with, a glass of Commandaria wine [...] Another thing about Captain Demetri, on which, both, himself and his brother, who happened to be the Chief Engineer of the ship, were gossiped, was that they were never on speaking terms. Whenever it was necessary for them to communicate, they were exchanged messages in writing.
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