{"id":35537,"date":"2022-02-18T19:29:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T19:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greekshippingmiracle.org\/english\/?p=35537"},"modified":"2024-09-12T22:31:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T22:31:11","slug":"from-a-crisis-to-a-war-1930-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greekshippingmiracle.org\/en\/history\/from-a-crisis-to-a-war-1930-1939\/","title":{"rendered":"From a Crisis to a War (1930-1939)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1. Laid up vessels in Antwerp in 1933 during the Great Depression.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li>
2. Laid up vessels at River Fal in the United Kingdom in 1932.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li>
3. Article from the British magazine The Sphere<\/em>, dated 1934, referring to subsidies offered to British shipping by their government.\n<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 4. Greek vessels laid up in the island of Syros in the early 1930s.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 5. Shipowner Nikolaos Kyriakides (1869-1935), served as vice president and president of the Union of Greek Shipowners.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 6. Correspondence referring to Greek sickness and injury claims.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 7. Circular by British insurers referring to Greek sickness and injury claims.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 8. Circular by the S. G. Embiricos Ltd. office referring to Greek sickness and injury claims.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 9. The Greek steamship EVGENIA CHANDRIS, acquired by John Chandris in late 1932 for a mere 6,500 pounds. At the time of her building in Japan in 1920 she was sold to Dutch interests for about 400,000 pounds.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 10. The 1911-built Greek steamship PANTELIS, acquired in 1932 by Costis P. Lemos for 5,700 pounds.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 11. The 1915-built Greek steamship IOULIA NICOLAOU, acquired in 1933 by Nicolaos G. Nicolaou for about 5,800 pounds.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 12. The 1914-built Greek steamship MOUNT PINDUS, acquired in 1932 by Manolis Kulukundis for about 2,150 pounds.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 13. The 1919-built Greek steamship ONASSI SOCRATIS, acquired in late 1932 for about 3,750 pounds, marked the beginning of Aristotle Onassis\u2019 brilliant career in shipping.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 14. Document referring to the negotiations held between British and Greek shipowners that led to the introduction of the Minimum Rate Scheme (1 of 2).<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 15. Document referring to the negotiations held between British and Greek shipowners that led to the introduction of the Minimum Rate Scheme (2 of 2).<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 16. Document of the P. Wigham-Richardson & Co. Ltd. office referring to the Minimum Rate Scheme.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 17. Document referring to the Minimum Rate Scheme.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 18. Document referring to the Minimum Rate Scheme (1 of 2). <\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 19. Document referring to the Minimum Rate Scheme (2 of 2). <\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 20. Document referring to the Minimum Rate Scheme.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 21. The Greek steamship EUGENIE LIVANOS built by British shipyards in 1936. <\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 22. The launching of the Greek steamship THEOFANO LIVANOS in 1936 of the Livanos group.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 23. The Greek steamship ELIAS G. KULUKUNDIS, built in 1938 in the United Kingdom.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 24. The launching of the Greek steamship THEMONI, built in 1938 for the Kassos Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 25. The KASSOS, delivered in 1939 by W. Doxford & Sons in Sunderland, UK, was the first newly-built Greek cargo motorship.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 26. The Greek steamship NICOLAOS D.L., built in 1939 for N. D. Lykiardopulo, became a war loss in April 1941.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 27. A letter by G. E. Embiricos referring to the steamship EUGENA CAMBANIS which was detained during the Spanish Civil War. It also includes a handwritten note by Angelo Lusi.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 28. The 1898-built Greek steamship EUGENA CAMBANIS, acquired in 1923 by George N. Embiricos.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 29. Ioannis Metaxas (1871-1941). One of the first acts of his administration in 1936 was the establishment of a Deputy Ministry of Merchant Marine and, later on, the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 30. Deucalion Rediadis (1882-1955), a distinguished lawyer, appointed as the first Deputy Minister of Merchant Marine from its establishment in 1936 until 1938.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 31. George E. Embiricos (1901-1980), the first elected president of the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping, pictured in uniform with his wife Sofia.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 32. A circular by the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping to its members in 1937.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li> 33. The 1905-built steamship KOSTI, owned by John D. Chandris, became the first Greek shipping casualty after the outbreak of WWII.<\/p><\/div>\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li>