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AGHIOS ERMOLAOS

PostPosted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 10:07 pm
by teesships
AGHIOS ERMOLAOS (5147205), Greece, 7176gt,
completed Richmond, USA, 7-1943
1943 JOHN ROSS - 1947 HELLENIC WAVE - 1970 AGHIOS ERMOLAOS
BU Castellon 10.73 [Desguaces Maritimos]

Tees Dock, circa March 1971. Albert Weller slide:
AGHIOS-ERMOLAOSxaw.jpg
My own level of interest in ships was in the doldrums for various reasons just around that time, so this was one I never saw, unfortunately. However, unless anyone knows better, I suspect this would be the last Liberty ship to visit the Tees? (There were at least two subsequent VICTORY ships that I know of.)

Co-incidentally, we had another long-standing Ship Society member at that time called John Ross. Wonder if Albert ever mentioned he had seen his former ship namesake to him?

Ron

Re: AGHIOS ERMOLAOS

PostPosted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 11:19 am
by magoonigal
Nice find, Ron.

By the time you get the Helmsman, an Officer and a Lookout into the Bridge it would be overcrowded.
The original Wheelhouse would have been one deck down.