The 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 company Pinkster Co Amsterdam. Read more …. (pdf)
On 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 Ijesel of Goringhem in Holland in 1961 … read more (9.65mb .pdf file)
Arado 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, heading towards to Heraclea. In order to avoid snagging the wreck again, they…
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 all the data I managed to draw from mainly primary sources… read more…
Anna II shipwreck The construction of the merchant cargo ship ANNA II began on May 4, 1966 with number 587 at the ShipyardsFa Hijlkema & Zonen BODEWES SCHEEPWERK N. V. by Martenshoek in the Netherlands.It was launched on July 7, 1966 under the name KNUD SIF on behalf of I / S Knud Sif Copenhagen. In 1987passed into the ownership of G. Johannesen, Uldum and was renamed ROSA,…
SHARK ATTACKS IN HELLENIC SEAS REPORTED CASES OF SHARK ATTACKS IN HELLAS (GREECE) THE START OF THE RESEARCHWhile reading in newspapers, magazines and books about shark attacks on humans, which had taken place in the Hellenic (Greek) seas, I realised that although anumber of attacks were referred to, nowhere were there reliable statistics about these attacks. In addition discovered there appeared to be nosingle research paper containing the…
