par davidships » Jeu 15 Déc 2016 17:01
La vie extraordinaire d'IROISE
(Veuillez me pardonner, c'est en anglais)
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Icebreaking salvage-tug and cable repair ship
663grt 284nrt 1100displ, 54.8/57.0 x 9.35m (179.8 x 30.6 x 15.8ft)
Built 1911 Bellino-Fendrich Shipyard, Odessa
T3cyl 118nhp 1550ihp 1scr [maker?]
1911 delivered to the Russian Imperial Navy in the Black Sea fleet as TCHERNOMORE (CHERNOMOR) (RUS flag)
16/12/1917 seized by Bolshevik forces
1/5/1918 seized by German forces
11/1918 seized by White Russian forces
12/1918 seized by Allies and allocated to France for salvage duties
4/1919 returned to White Russian Navy
14/11/1920 facing defeat by the Bolsheviks, the remaining fleet of at least 22 warships was evacuated from Sebastopol to Turkey under Baron Wrangell
12/1920 offered asylum by France, the fleet (along with 4500 civilian refugees) arrived at Bizerte, Tunisia and was interned
1924 ownership passed to the Soviet Union but most were scrapped locally as unrepairable. CHERNOMOR seems to have also been unwanted by the Soviet Navy and was sold by the Commission de Liquidation Russe
1/10/1924 Union Française et Maritime, Paris, renamed IROISE (based at St Nazaire and Brest) (FRA flag, reg St Nazaire, c/s OUTE)
1933 laid up
1935 Société Algérienne de Sauvetage (Zagamé Frères et Mérigot), Oran (FRA flag, reg Algiers, c/s FOTA); remained in service at Brest
10/1936 N E Vernicos Shipping Co, Piraeus, renamed IRINI VERNICOS (GRC flag, reg Piraeus, ON 2091, 663g 324n)
1938 Compania Panamena de Remolcadores Ltda, Panama & London, renamed ATRATO (PAN flag, reg Panama, c/s HPJF)
1938-9 operated smuggling Jews to Palestine. In seven voyages from Italy and Yugoslavia she brought 2433 refugees
28/5/1939 arrested by HMS SUTTON north of Jaffa
by4/1940 released (still PAN flag)
by9/1940 N E Vernicos Shipping Co, Piraeus, renamed IRINI VERNICOS (GRC flag, reg Piraeus, ON 2091)
21/9/1940-29/11/1940 requisitioned by Royal Hellenic Navy for coastal service
1/1941 on salvage station at Suda
2/6/1941 abandoned (not scuttled) at Suda
6/1941 taken as prize by German forces (listed as IRINI VERNIKOU)
10/9/1941 reported attacked by torpedo from Greek submarine GLAVKOS near Suda (not confirmed)
23/9/1943 sank at Cape Papas after striking a mine (8 crew dies); refloated, repaired and moved to Thessaoloniki
10/1944 scuttled by Germans at Thessaloniki
1946 salved by R Carter & Co
1948 returned to service with unknown Greek owners as THEOCLITOS/THEOHLITOS (GRC flag, possibly in passenger service)
1951 broken up
(1952 report of renaming OKEANIS (GRC flag) appears false)
