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DIMITRIOS was taken to Haifa and she thus became the first of a series of ships that were arrested by the British forces. She remained idle there until she half sank and she was deleted from the Greek Register at the end of 1953.

The ship on the left of Dido's photo (coming from Paul Silverstone) is SAN DIMITRIO later LATRUN, ex SODRA SVERIGE, 733 grt/1871, built by Bergsunds at Stockholm, which arrived at Haifa on 1 Nov. 1946 with 1,279 Jewish (mostly Polish) refugees on board, one of 5 Swedish coastal steamers bought by Jewish buyers and put under the Panamanian flag. The Jewish refugees however were immediately brought back to Cyprus by her British captors.

SAN DIMITRIO, not DIMITRIOS...

dido a écrit : ↑mar. oct. 06, 2015 8:36 pm AMBITIEUX was bought in 1920 by the established Greek shipowners Embirikos Brothers and renamed SIKINOS. She was sold by Embirikos in 1923 to Zambazas Brothers and she was used as a ferry between Patras, Kyllini and Zakynthos. In 1932 she changed hands and was converted into a cargo vessel being renamed TETI F. In April 1941 she was sunk by German aircraft at Megara but she was soon raised by the occupation forces. In February 1944 she was sunk, this time by Allied aircraft at Ios Island. After the end of the war the vessel was once again refloated and hastily repaired as the DIMITRIOS to illegally carry 220 Jewish immigrants to Palestine. Bearing the informal name BERL KATZNELSON she was spotted on November 22, 1945 by the British sloop PEACOCK off the coast of Palestine. DIMITRIOS was taken to Haifa and she thus became the first of a series of ships that were arrested by the British forces. She remained idle there until she half sank and she was deleted from the Greek Register at the end of 1953.