Chalkidiki was a small German ship, a tender for big ocean liner boats in Hamburg, given to Greece after World War II. See http://albert-ballin.ws24.cc/text_22...9_deutsch.html for a detailed presentation.
She was a HAPAG ship, a luxurious tender, built in 1901 in Geestemunde by Seebeck Werft (see http://werften.fischtown.de/archiv/ssw2.html) in Bremerhaven and named Kehrwieder. She had 52 m length, 9.1 m width and 560 tons!!!
But she had great capabilities for transport of passengers as well. A German Web site describes her success before World War II.IDNo: 5601485 Year: 1901
Name: KEHRWIEDER Launch Date:
Type: Tug Date of completion: 4.01
Flag: DEU Keel:
Tons: 560 Link: 2488
DWT: Yard No: 161
Length overall: Ship Design:
LPP: 52.1 Country of build: DEU
Beam: 9.1 Builder: Seebeck
Material of build: Location of yard: Geestemunde
Number of screws/Mchy/
Speed(kn): 1T-13
Owner as Completed: Hamburg-Amerika Linie (Hapag), Hamburg
End: 1946
Subsequent History: 46 CHALKIDIKI
Disposal Data: boiler explosion at Piraeus 12.12.46
She was ceded to Greece in 1946. She was taken over by the Greek Government and placed in the “Executive Committee of Passenger Shipping”. She was named Chalkidiki and started running longer trade routes… Here she is presented in an ad of the week of August 9, 1947. Her schedule was Piraeus, Patmos, Leros, Kalymnos, Kos, Nisyros, Symi, Rodos, Kastellorizo.Für die Hapag, Hamburg, lief am 7.12.1900 der Frachter Kehrwieder bei Seebeck vom Stapel und wurde am 4.4.1901 an die Reederei abgeliefert. Das 560 BRT große Schiff war als kleines Lazarettschiff im II. Weltkrieg vorgesehen. Wegen der langen Umbaufristen sah man davon ab.
Im Juni 1900 hatte die alte Firma F.W. Wencke unter dem damaligen Besitzer Nicolaus Wencke Konkurs anmelden müssen. Seebeck erwarb den Platz mit Trockendock und Querhelling. Seebeck besaß nun fünf Docks.
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Miramar indicates that Chalkidiki was disposed of as a result of a "boiler explosion at Piraeus on 12.12.46" but this cannot be correct as she was still doing voyages in 1947... Also A. Tzamtzis in his I Elliniki Epivatigos Nautilia, Miletos, Athens mentions (page 84) that Chalkidiki was stlli in service running domestic lines on January 1, 1949.
Does anyone know what happened to her?
NB: Those who are looking for German passenger and freight ships that "made it" past World War II will find this site very helpful http://parkbank.kilu.de/maritim/hansa/verbleib.htm