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Name: CHRISTOPHORE
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 16/06/1904
Completed: 1904
Builder: Smith's Dock Co Ltd
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 749
Dimensions: 727grt, 536nrt, 217.0 x 32.1 x 13.6ft
Engines: 2 x T3cyl (11,18 & 30,x 21ins), 84nhp
Engines by: MacColl & Pollock Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 10.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1904 M Vagliano, Rostoff
1909 F Theofani, Rostoff
1910 Heirs of F Theofani, Rostoff
1914 WMM Theofani & P Michailiziani, Rostoff
1915 Imperial Russian Navy
06/1918 German control
11/1918 White Russian control
1922 Ch Theofani, Marseille; renamed SARLOS
1924 P Dimitriades, Piraeus; renamed MARGO
1930 Miss Pinelopi Couroupou, Piraeus; renamed PINELOPI K
1936 Soc Anon Generale des Ciments, Piraeus; renamed OLYMPOS
1941 Government of Germany
07/10/1943 Sank
Comments: 1915: Requisitioned by the Imperial Russian Navy as a Black Sea minesweeper
Allocated pennant numbers T18, T31 and then T231 as a net carrier
1941: In German control at Piraeus
07/10/1943: Shelled & sunk by British warships south of Levitha
When bound for Kos with German troops and equipment


Shields Daily News, Friday, 17/06/1904