KONISTRA
| Name : | KONISTRA |
| Greek name : | ΚΟΝΙΣΤΡΑ |
| Type of Ship : | Freighter |
| LRS-Name : | KONISTRA |
| Internat. call sign : | SVPZ |
| Port of Registry : | Syros 248 |
| Later Names : | 1907 LAMINGTON 1931 KONISTRA |
| Initial Flag of Registry : | Great Britain |
| Owner : | 1907 Lanarkshire Steamship Co. Ltd. (J. Stevenson & Co.), Glasgow, Great Britain 1916 National Steam Ship Co. Ltd. (Fisher, Alimonda & Co., Ltd.), Glasgow, Great Britain 1931 T.N. Epiphaniades, Syros Island, Greece 1941 German Reich 1942 Mittelmeerreederei GmbH, Hamburg, Germany |
| Shipyard : | A. Rodger & Co., Port Glasgow, Great Britain |
| Hull Number : | 396 |
| Year of Construction : | 1907 |
| Launch : | 25.07.1907 |
| Commissioned : | 00.07.1907 |
| Size (GRT) : | 3.537 |
| Size (NRT) : | 2.266 |
| Lenght (m) : | 106,7 |
| Width (m) : | 14,6 |
| Depth (m) : | 7,3 |
| Engine : | Steam engine/triple expansion/3 cylinders/ A. Rodger & Co., Port Glasgow, Great Britain |
| Output : | 294 NHP |
| Screws : | 1 |
| Speed (kn) : | 9 |
1907 built by shipyard A. Rodger & Co., Port Glasgow, Great Britain, as freighter LAMINGTON for Lanarkshire Steamship Co. Ltd. (J. Stevenson & Co.), Glasgow, Great Britain.
1916 purchased by National Steam Ship Co. Ltd. (Fisher, Alimonda & Co., Ltd.), Glasgow, Great Britain.
1931 sold to T.N. Epiphaniades, Syros Island, Greece, and renamed KONISTRA.
27.12.1940 commandeered by Greek government (office Ν.Δ. 58/41) in Persia (Iran). [A]
19.04.1941 with Captain Panagis A. Kampitsis in command and with British refugees in a convoy from Piraeus to Alexandria, Egypt.
20.04.1941 due to lack of coal, ship went to Souda, Crete.
21.04.1941, 14:00, attacked by German Luftwaffe aircraft with bombs and machine guns. The steamer sustained a heavy bomb hit in hold #1 and took water, but the captain had sufficient time to beach the ship. KONISTRA was partially looted later, subsequently left and declared to be a total loss. [B]
1941 declared to be unrefloatable by the Wehrmacht, but salvaged later, repaired and put into service as a transport ship for the Kriegsmarine. [C]
1942 ownership Mittelmeer Reederei GmbH, Hamburg, Germany.
08.1944 sunk in Marseille, France.
08.02.1946 raised and beached by the Allies.
07.1946 scrapped.
1916 purchased by National Steam Ship Co. Ltd. (Fisher, Alimonda & Co., Ltd.), Glasgow, Great Britain.
1931 sold to T.N. Epiphaniades, Syros Island, Greece, and renamed KONISTRA.
27.12.1940 commandeered by Greek government (office Ν.Δ. 58/41) in Persia (Iran). [A]
19.04.1941 with Captain Panagis A. Kampitsis in command and with British refugees in a convoy from Piraeus to Alexandria, Egypt.
20.04.1941 due to lack of coal, ship went to Souda, Crete.
21.04.1941, 14:00, attacked by German Luftwaffe aircraft with bombs and machine guns. The steamer sustained a heavy bomb hit in hold #1 and took water, but the captain had sufficient time to beach the ship. KONISTRA was partially looted later, subsequently left and declared to be a total loss. [B]
1941 declared to be unrefloatable by the Wehrmacht, but salvaged later, repaired and put into service as a transport ship for the Kriegsmarine. [C]
1942 ownership Mittelmeer Reederei GmbH, Hamburg, Germany.
08.1944 sunk in Marseille, France.
08.02.1946 raised and beached by the Allies.
07.1946 scrapped.
| Date of Loss : | 21.04.1941 |
| Time of Loss : | 14:00 Uhr |
| Route : | Piraeus, Greece - Alexandria, Egypt |
| Place of Loss : | Souda Bay, Crete, Greece [A][B] |
| Kind of Loss : | Air attack |
| Cause of Loss : | Air attack |
| Name of Opponent : | German Luftwaffe |
| Fate of Crew : | No losses [B] |
1. Lloyds Register of Shipping.
2. [A] Melissinos, Ioannis: The Navy during World War II - The total contribution of the Greek Merchant Navy (Motorsailers and Steamers) 1940-1945, volume I and II, University of Ioannina 1995 (Gr.)
3. [B] Dounis, Christos: The wrecks of the Greek Waters 1900-1950, volume I, Finatec, Athens 2000 (Gr.)
4. Roger W. Jordan, The World's Merchant Fleets 1939, Naval Institute Press, 1999
5. [C] Archive Theodor Dorgeist
6. [D] Archive Klaus Günther von Martinez
2. [A] Melissinos, Ioannis: The Navy during World War II - The total contribution of the Greek Merchant Navy (Motorsailers and Steamers) 1940-1945, volume I and II, University of Ioannina 1995 (Gr.)
3. [B] Dounis, Christos: The wrecks of the Greek Waters 1900-1950, volume I, Finatec, Athens 2000 (Gr.)
4. Roger W. Jordan, The World's Merchant Fleets 1939, Naval Institute Press, 1999
5. [C] Archive Theodor Dorgeist
6. [D] Archive Klaus Günther von Martinez
| Inserted : | 07.04.2014 |
| Inserted by : | Dimitris Galon |
| Last Edit : | 20.01.2016 |
| Edited by : | Dimitris Galon |
| Modifications : | - 17.10.2014 T. Reich photos 1-2 and documents 1-2 inserted - 29.05.2015 T. Reich document 3 inserted - 03.08.2015 D. Galon Service Life edited - 04.12.2015 T. Reich document 4 inserted - 20.01.2016 D. Galon Service Life inserted |
