Ifaistos (ship, 1920)
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Ifaistos ( Greek Ήφαιστος ) was the name of an auxiliary ship of the Greek Navy . The ship was apparently initially ordered by the Hamburg-Bremen Africa Line from the Neptun shipyard in Rostock as Friderun . However, it was first handed over to the August Cords shipping company and then to the Emder Reederei AG. It was launched as the Marie Reppel cargo ship . On July 6, 1920, the ship was sold to Lyle Shipping Co. Ltd. handed overin England , which thensold itto Greece on November 8, 1920.
From 1921 the ship was first used as a transport ship Basilefs Konstandinos ( Greek Βασιλεύς Κωνσταντίνος = King Constantine ) to transport refugees from the Ottoman Empire . In 1922 it was renamed Chios ( Χίος ) after the island of the same name . 1923-1925 the ship was in England at Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company in a workshop ship rebuilt and the name after the Greek god of blacksmithing Hephaestus in Ifaistos changed. It served as a workshop ship for torpedo boats and destroyers and as a submarine escort ship . In 1941 the ship and part of the Greek fleet were moved to the Middle East to avoid being destroyed or taken over by the Wehrmacht . In 1964 the ship was deleted from the fleet list and canceled in 1968.
literature
- Fred T. Jane : Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II , London 1989, p. 158