Casgliadau Arlein

¾ Port bow view of S.S. FRANGOULA VRONDISSIS and waterman's boat, c.1936.

(2066gt) : Built 1904 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. Ltd., Middlesbrough, with engine by North Eastern Marine Engineers Ltd., Sunderland, as the HEIDWIG HEIDMANN for H.W.Heidmann of Altona. She briefly came under the ownership of Hugo Stinnes Schiffahrts Gesellschaft, Hamburg in 1919 before being siezed by the British government later that year as "war reparations". Returned to German owner, Shroder Holken of Hamburg in 1921, she was renamed ROSEMARIE HOLKEN, and then went under various names :- RUDOLF RETTICH (1923 - 1925) : CRISIA (1925 - 1926) : EIRENE (1926 ~ 1926 ), all under Hamburg owners until joining the Riga Steamship Co., Riga as ss EVERENE where she was managed the Fricis Grauds Shipping Co. Ltd.until 1935. In 1935, she was sold to J.A. Vrondissis of Andros and renamed FRANGOULA VRONDISSIS, and in 1937 became the POPI S. under the ownership of K.G. Sigalas of Piraeus. POPI S. was sunk by German air craft bombardment on the 24th April 1941 at Milos Island.