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TOMKO - IMO 8965385
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Small cargo ship TOMKO laid up in Salamina island, Greece, January 2013.
She was caught smuggling cigarettes in February 2011 near island Hydra in Saronic gulf, with Bolivia flag (port register La Paz), she had seized and remained for about eighteen months in the harbor of Nafplio. According to a statement of her captain, smuggled cigarettes were loaded in a port of Turkey and their destination was Albania.
The summer of 2012 was towed to Eleusis bay initially and thereafter to Ambelakia of Salamina island, and the last time located in Perama anchorage.
Former names : EVANGELISTRIA, SKYROS. Year of build : 1948 (but where ???). Any information about her is welcome.
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- Skyros (Until 1976)
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Ships under Repair or Conversion - 3 photos
General cargo ships built before 1940 (Under 3000gt) - 5 photos
General cargo ships built 1940-1949 (Under 3000gt) - 2 photos
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When the vessel was seized at Volos in 1944 it still had the bell with the name STORTEBEKER written.
As the story goes, STORTEBEKER was hit by artillery fire from partizan battery and she went aground at Agiokampos. She was captured and renamed as AGIOKAMPOS but in 1.45 she was handed over to the British authorities and then to the Greek Navy that seized her as war booty and renamed her SKYROS.
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PLEIAS (a similar German coaster) had foundered in 1963 off Xylokastro.
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Cpt. Tilemachos F. Kalyvas
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Without prejudice this motorship is our ex PLEIAS or sister ship. she definitely is built before 1940, probably in 1937. My father owned PLEIAS as from 1959 to 1963.
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But the build year that you quote (1937), contrasts with the year 1948, which corresponds to the number IMO 8965385 (shown in photo). What happens here ? What is your opinion ?
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1937 built as "Gesine" by Schiffswerft Ewald Berninghaus at Köln.
Owner: Karl Schepers--Haren Ems-Germany
2 sister ships: "Jan" and "Merkur".
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