This is only a partial list, and does not include any of the original sail barges plying the Danube. The Stathatos habit of giving most of their vessels the names of family members makes them easier to trace, but repeated use of the same name (there are no fewer that three ships christened Eleni Stathatos) is often the cause of considerable confusion. Vessels are listed in chronological order of construction; though most of the early steamers were contracted for by the family, others were acquired later in their careers. As much information as possible is given, but there are inevitable lacunae.
S/S Antonios
Stathatos
Cargo ship, 1,507 gross tonnage
(GT)
Launched 21/07/1883
Built by John Readhead & Co.,
South Shields, Tyne for Stathatos Brothers, Ithaka; sold 1897; mined and sunk
16/11/1914, 30 miles off Middlesbrough.
S/S Andriana
Stathatos
Cargo ship, 1,644 GT
Launched 28/04/1884
Built by John Readhead & Co.,
South Shields, Tyne for Stathatos Brothers, Ithaka; wrecked 16/02/1891 on the
island of Zeus, on voyage from Sulina to Antwerp with a cargo of wheat.
S/S Othon
Stathatos
Cargo ship, 1,801 GT
Launched 21/07/1883
Built by John Readhead & Co.,
South Shields, Tyne for O. A. Stathatos, Ithaka; sold 1899 & renamed Quinto; 19/02/1917; torpedoed and sunk
by U-Boat UC38 off Lido d’Ostia.
S/S Dionysios
Stathatos
Cargo ship, 1,965 GT
Launched 30/01/1889
Built by John Readhead & Co.,
South Shields, Tyne for Stathatos Brothers, Ithaka; sold 1899; wrecked
24/11/1910 on the islands of the Chaussée Sein.
S/S Constantinos
Stathatos
Cargo ship, 2,340 GT
Launched 22/04/1890
Built by John Readhead & Co.,
South Shields, Tyne for Stathatos Brothers, Ithaka; sold 1904; wrecked
21/12/1911 on the Sauvage Rocks.
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| S/S Polymitis (1898) |
S/S Polymitis
Doxford Turret ship, 3,431 GT
Built 1898, William Doxford &
Sons Ltd., Sunderland for O. A. Stathatos, Romania; November 1916, requisitioned
by Imperial Rusian Navy; 1919, returned to owners; sold 1920; 24/01/1929 sunk
after collision on passage Huelva for Bordeaux.
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| S/S Antonios Stathatos (1901) |
S/S Antonios
Stathatos
Cargo ship, 2,743 GT
Built 1901 by J. Blumer & Co.,
Sunderland for C. Stathatos, Ithaka; sunk 1/12/1917 by U-Boat U-84 off Ile du
Pillier.
S/S Dionyssios
Stathatos
Cargo ship, 3,844 GT
Built 1906, Sunderland
S/S Eleni
Stathatos
Cargo ship, 3,019
Built 1907, Middlesborough
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| S/S Othon Stathatos (1902) |
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| S/S Othon Stathatos towed into St. Ives, 1913 |
S/S Othon
Stathatos
Cargo ship, 3,022 GT
Launched 13/03/1902
Built by John Readhead & Co.,
South Shields, Tyne for O. A. Stathatos, Ithaka; April 1913, towed into St.Ives
after striking Three Stones Oar in fog;
sold 1926; broken up 1960.
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| S/S Ann Stathatos (1918) |
S/S Ann
Stathatos
Cargo ship, 5,685 GT
Built 1918 by William Pickersgill,
Southwick as Persian Prince for
Furness Withy & Co.; acquired 1933 by Demetrios D. Stathatos and renamed
Ann Stathatos; acquired 1940 by Antony D. Stathatos; sold 1951; scrapped 1959.
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| S/S Eleni Stathatos (1919) |
S/S Eleni
Stathatos
Cargo ship, 5,247 GT
Built 1919 by Earle’s Shipbuilding
& Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull for The Shipping Controller as SS War Shark; acquired 1928 by D. A.
Stathatos, Ithaka; 29/10/1929, ran aground and wrecked on Fernando de Noronha
island.
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| S/S Eleni Stathatou when she was the S/S Lancaster Castle |
S/S Eleni
Stathatou
Cargo ship, 5,625 GT
Built 1919 by Northumberand Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Howden-on-Tyne for The
Shipping Controller; 1919 acquired by Lancashire Shipping Co. as S/S Lancaster Castle; 1936 acquired by
Stathatos & Co & renamed Seafarer;
1938 renamed Eleni Stathatou; 28/01/1940,
sunk by U-Boat U-34 about 200 miles west of the Scilly Isles.
S/S Dionyssios
Stathatos
Cargo ship, 5,168 GT
Built September 1919 by Cammell
Laird Shipbuilders, Birkenhead for The Shipping Controller; 1919 acquired by D.
A. Stathatos & Co.; 1925 acquired by Demetrios D. Stathatos; 1936 acquired
by Anthony D. Stathatos; 11/12/1940, lost rudder and abandoned, 58.31N 21.55W
Montreal.
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