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Dimitrios (Greek: Δημήτριος) is a Greek shipwreck famous due to its picturesque location on an easily accessible sandy beach near Gythio, Greece. Dimitrios (previously named Klintholm ), a small, 67-metre (220 ft) cargo ship of 965 gross register tons cargo capacity built in Denmark in 1950, was registered in the Prefecture of Piraeus ...
The first headlines of Greek newspapers reported that the ship had sunk with complete loss of life. The premier declared a week-long period of national mourning. At 9:45 a.m, the first C-47 Skytrain arrived at the scene and located the refrigerator truck, while HMS Ashton rushed to the scene as well.
Some scholars speculated that the ship was carrying part of the loot of the Roman General Sulla from Athens in 86 BC, and might have been on its way to Italy. A reference by the Greek writer, Lucian, to one of Sulla's ships sinking in the Antikythera region gave rise to this theory. Supporting an early first-century BC date were domestic ...
Kyrenia is a 4th-century BC ancient Greek merchant ship that sank c. 294 BC. Kyrenia ' s wreck was discovered by Greek-Cypriot diving instructor Andreas Cariolou in November 1965 during a storm. [1] [3] Having lost the exact position, Cariolou carried out more than 200 dives until he re-discovered the wreck in 1967 close to Kyrenia (Keryneia ...
ATHENS (Reuters) -A cargo ship carrying salt sank off the Greek island of Lesbos on Sunday, with all but one of its 14-strong crew still missing, the Greek coast guard said. The Comoros-flagged ...
Ships became increasingly large and heavy, including some of the largest wooden ships hitherto constructed. These developments were spearheaded in the Hellenistic Near East , but also to a large extent shared by the naval powers of the Western Mediterranean, specifically Carthage and the Roman Republic .
The Panagiotis (Greek: Παναγιώτης) is a shipwreck lying in the white sands of an exposed cove on the coast of Zakynthos, which is among the southernmost of the Ionian Islands of Greece. Navagio ("Shipwreck"), the spot where she lies, is a tourist attraction on the north-western side of the island, with thousands of visitors each year.