Ουράνα [Σμύρνη - Lodore, Tangier, Ourana, Smyrni, Kemal]

[Nicholas Peppas]

One more Pantaleon ship that was very active from 1896 to 1920, Ourana did mostly coastal routes at the Asia Minor coast as well as some routes from Piraeus to Smyrna.

She was named Lodore but was actually launched as Tangier. She belonged to Fisher, Renwick & Co of Newcastle, UK and had a tonnage of just 656 tons. She was a mixed cargo/passenger ship with routes from Newcastle to Norway. More about the Fisher, Renwick & Co of Newcastle can be found in http://www.nynehead-books.co.uk/description.php?II=9

Here are her Miramar entries

IDNo: 1080555 Year: 1878
Name: LODORE Launch Date: 12.9.78
Type: Cargo ship Date of completion: 10.78
Flag: GBR Keel:
Tons: 656 Link: 1489
DWT: Yard No: 113
Length overall: Ship Design:
LPP: 61.0 Country of build: GBR
Beam: 8.6 Builder: Wigham Richardson
Material of build: I Location of yard: Low Walker
Number of screws/Mchy/ Speed(kn): 1C-
Owner as Completed: Fisher, Renwick & Co, Newcastle
Subsequent History: [L as TANGIER] - 96 URANA - 13 OURANA - 21 SMYRNI - 29 KEMAL
Disposal Data: sold 6.54 & hulked at Istanbul

Name Tons Change Starke Ref. Main Owner
LODORE 656 1878 Fisher Renwick & Co
TANGIER 656 1878 Fisher Renwick & Co
URANA 656 1896 P.Pantaleon
OURANA 656 1913 P.Pantaleon
SMYRNI 656 1921 P.Pantaleon Sons
KEMAL 656 1929 A.Sadikzade

Tangier was purchased by the Oriental Line of Pantaleon in 1896 and named Ourana. As I understand, Ourana was a common female name in teh Greek community of Asia Minor.

The Oriental Line of the Pantaleon family started in Smyrna in 1883. Their first ships were the 223-ton Eleni and the 443-ton Smyrna. By the end of the 19th century they had numerous ships including Anatoli, Athinai, Vyzantion, Gortynia, Ourana, Roumeli, Samos, Sparti and Zatouna. Many of these ships had exceptional contributions to Greek shipping (notably Roumeli, Vyzantion and Anatoli) but some of them had very unfortunate ends (Athinai, Sparti).

In the 1908 US State Department publication Commercial Relations of the United States with Foreign Countries it is stated:
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Surprisingly enough, Pantaleon had placed her also to go from Piraeus to Crete and Egypt before World War I! Here is Ourana's schedule of October 15, 1909
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For patriotic reasons, she was renamed Smyrni in 1921 and continued as a passenger ship until 1929. Here is an August 14, 1924 schedule showing her going to Chios and Mytilene.
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Smyrni was sold to A. Sadikzade in Turkey and renamed Kemal (!). A Turkish site gives this picture as Ourana transferring Turkish refugees from Kavala to Turkey. I have serious doubts that this is correct.

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Kemal was scrapped in 1954, age 76!