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Fish 'n' History
The Wreck of the "Paris" today rests at 74 meters of depth in the Aegean Sea, and sometimes is visited by shoals of Lumberjacks, and, more rarely, by some technical divers.
At 22.50 of June 15th 1927, “Patris”, with 16 passengers in total and under the administration of the captain G. Kostallou, sailed from Piraeus heading to Naxos. At 01.30 of June 16th and while it was passing from the south-west cape of the island of Patroklos, they realized that the ship was moving opposite to the course of the passenger ships “Moschanthi Togia” and “Tinos” that they were coming from Siros heading to the port of Piraeus.
In a small distance behind the mentioned ships, the passenger steam ship “Angeliki” of the marine company Gianoulatos was coming from Siros as well.
As the press mentions, “Moschanthi Togia” of the steam ship company of Togia brothers having as responsible of the bridge during the crash the assistant captain Mr. N. Chavlopoulos and “Tinos” of the D. Iglessi brothers company with Captain Mr. I. Kantouna were competing in a speed course sailing with a speed of 13-14 knots.
“Patris” trying to avoid the crash and not being able to pass between the two ships turned to the left exposing its right side to “Moschanthi Togia” that was coming with a great speed. Due to the great speed and the small distance between the two ships, “Moschanthi Togia” crashed and jammed with force into the right side of “Patris”.
Directly after this and during their effort to remove “Moschanthi Togia” from “Patris”, water came into the latter that got too heavy and sank very quickly with ten losses in total.
(Text by Dimitri Galon)
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Fish 'n' History
The Wreck of the "Paris" today rests at 74 meters of depth in the Aegean Sea, and sometimes is visited by shoals of Lumberjacks, and, more rarely, by some technical divers.
At 22.50 of June 15th 1927, “Patris”, with 16 passengers in total and under the administration of the captain G. Kostallou, sailed from Piraeus heading to Naxos. At 01.30 of June 16th and while it was passing from the south-west cape of the island of Patroklos, they realized that the ship was moving opposite to the course of the passenger ships “Moschanthi Togia” and “Tinos” that they were coming from Siros heading to the port of Piraeus.
In a small distance behind the mentioned ships, the passenger steam ship “Angeliki” of the marine company Gianoulatos was coming from Siros as well.
As the press mentions, “Moschanthi Togia” of the steam ship company of Togia brothers having as responsible of the bridge during the crash the assistant captain Mr. N. Chavlopoulos and “Tinos” of the D. Iglessi brothers company with Captain Mr. I. Kantouna were competing in a speed course sailing with a speed of 13-14 knots.
“Patris” trying to avoid the crash and not being able to pass between the two ships turned to the left exposing its right side to “Moschanthi Togia” that was coming with a great speed. Due to the great speed and the small distance between the two ships, “Moschanthi Togia” crashed and jammed with force into the right side of “Patris”.
Directly after this and during their effort to remove “Moschanthi Togia” from “Patris”, water came into the latter that got too heavy and sank very quickly with ten losses in total.
(Text by Dimitri Galon)
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