Orion After reviewing for a while the events that led to the sinking of the ship “Orion”, in the bay of Kedros, Donoussa and in order to restore several inaccurate and incorrect information that I had included in the first article I had posted, I decided to compile and republish it. but this time, with […]
Read MoreArado 196 WW2 …Sometime between May – October 1982, the Piraeus-registered fishing boat “ROBINSON”, NP1377, commanded by Naxian captain Sarantis Economou (†2003), snagged its drag net on the wreck of a German seaplane at a approximately 36° 49’N, 25° 22’E. This unbelievable “catch” occurred at a depth of 50 fathoms (~91m), north-northeast of Ios island, […]
Read MoreThe merchant cargo ship OYRANOS was launched on July 2, 1952. Its construction was completed on October 1 of the same year with number 260 at the Noord Nederlandse Scheepswerven Shipyards in Groningen, the Netherlands on behalf of N. V. Kustvaart Unie-Groningeka, In the same year it becomes the property of the […]
Read MoreOn 24th July 1981 the cargo ship Marianna with capacity 2.999 freight tons filled with barley, iron sheets, water pipes – irrigation and fertilizers collided with a reef, now known as Amara, filled with water and sank. The 24 people whom comprised the crew evacuated safely. The ship had been launched from the dock Aaneveming’s Bedrij […]
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