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