On November 5, 1944 the German small cargo ship HELMUT was attacked N of Tilos by HMS KIMBERLEY on voyage from Leros to Rhodes. She went aground at Tilos and sunk. At https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org it is mentioned that KIMBERLEY sank "an F lighter and escorting vessel", while at www.naval...

Thank you all for your input. It seems that VERA was the VERA GIOIA that Francesco and Theo had mentioned. Hello Aris, what were your sources?: a) German war diary --> ? --> KTB Skl, Teil A? b) Daily German reports --> ? --> KTB Skl, Teil D? Maybe there´s another source for checking. Regards Darius ...

During the evening of Jan.11, 1944 three (?) British MTBs attacked the German cargo motor ships SEERAUBER, ESTE and VERA that were anchored in Livadia Bay at Tilos Island in the Dodecanesse. According to the German war diary ESTE was sunk and the two others grounded. According to daily German report...

Many thanks Francesco!

On 8.10.44 the German patrol boat GA.02 was attacked and hit by aircraft off Euboa. Can anyone provide information on which squadron those aircraft belonged? According to the German report (see http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hur__flJELY/U8zqnDdm1LI/AAAAAAAAAGA/MN8SOHqCoEk/s1600/Karelas+General+Meise.jpg ...

The Greek steamer MIRANDA (Completed 1919 as INVERYTHAN) was - according to http://www.fleetwood-trawlers.info/index.php/2008/12/st-inverythan-a160/ - requisitioned in February 1941 by the War Department. I suppose she was based in Port Said. Does any one how she was used and when she was returned t...

CHARLES CHAPPELL was bought in 1922 by Michalis N. Vernicos that renamed her S. NICOLA and subsequently NIKOLAOS being operated as a coastal passenger/cargo ship out of Piraeus. In 1923 she was bought by I. Lykoudis and renamed NIKOLAOS L. continuing in similar service. She was seized by the German ...

Dear Malcolm

I finally made it to Piraeus register and I found that AGHIOS ANDREAS (521 grt, 46 x 10.3 m.) was scrapped in 1952 at Perama.

Thank you David!

British steamer AULDMUIR was chartered in June 1914 by Weidner, Hopkins & Co. who sub-chartered her to carry a cargo of timber from Vyborg and Kotka in Finland (then Russia). When WWI errupted, the Russian authorities did not allowed her to depart from Kotka. Her Captain and 1rst Engineer remain...

STYLIANOS was indeed sunk on the night of 21/22 May 1941 by British warships while part of German convoy "Maleme" bound from Piraeus to Maleme, Crete.
You might find some additional details at an article I have uploaded at https://www.academia.edu/43672983/The_G ... s_to_Crete

The yacht FREE LANCE (built 1894 by Lewis Nixon, Elizabethport NJ) show service as an armed yacht in the 1898 US-Spanish war and during WW1 as USS FREELANCE designated SP-830.
Does anyone knows if she also showed service during WWII and where?

Thank you all. Crolick, that's an interesting theory. Some ex KFK were captured by the British in the Aegean during 1945, such as: GD 93, ex-KFK 196. Captured in Symi 14.07.44 (operation Tenement) and towed to Turkey. GA92, ex KFK 5. Built Greece 11/1943, surrendered 5/1945? UJ.2152, ex KFK 3. Built...

I have no photos of those small auxiliaries in Greek service, but it seems that they were used as base auxiliaries.
HMS FELLOWSHIP was an ex trawler. EMS 2 could be something similar...

In 1945 the Royal Navy lended two vessels to the Greek Navy HMS FELLOWSHIP ( http://www.fleetwood-trawlers.info/inde ... r/page/10/ ) that became the Fleet Auxiliary 1 and a certain EMS 2 that became Fleet Auxiliary 2.
Does anyone has some information on HMS EMS 2?