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SHIPS HIT GREECE 18 - GREEK SHIPS LOST

6)ANTONIS (KORMORAN)




Above SS Antonis seen as former Ioulia Nicolaou. Became Antonis in 1933. Photo https://www.greekshippingmiracle.org/en/history/1930.html



Built: 1915


Tonnage: 3,729 / 6,639 tons


Cargo: 4,800 tons of coal


Route: Cardiff - Buenos Aires


Sunk 6 JAN 41 by raider Kormoran on pos. 08º 17’N 23º 32’W.


0 Dead


29 POW including one stowaway


This 3,729-ton Greek ship, carrying 4.800 tons of coal was sunk in mid-Atlantic on January 6 1941 with her twenty-eight man crew, and one blind passenger, being taken on board.

In keeping with his normal policy, Detmers asked her Captain to stay with his crew despite there being cabins on board specifically built for captured Captains and any possible female passengers.

This policy, he believed, helped ease communication problems and to maintain of order among the captured crews.


By Hilfskreuzer (Auxiliary Cruiser / Raider) - Kormoran (bismarck-class.dk)


 

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