Built as an open shelterdeck cargo vessel under yard No. 687 by J & K Smit Scheepswerven at Kinderdijk, Netherlands for Otto and Thor Thorensen A/S, Christiania (Oslo).
October 1920 launched under the name SARDINIA.
Tonnage 1.975 grt, 1.106 net, 3.000 dwt. Dim. 315 x 42.2 x 20.4ft., length bpp. 320ft, loaded draught 19.3ft.
Powered by one 6-cyl. Werkspoor 4 stroke diesel engine, 1.650 bhp., speed 11 knots.
A single decker with 4 holds and 5 hatches served by 10 winches.
Passenger accommodation for 8 passengers.
March 1921 completed.
After delivery put in the fruit trade from the Canary Islands to London.
1921 The Thorsen Line with title and ships were sold to Fred. Olsen & Co., (D/S A/S Spanskelinjen later renamed in Den Norske Middelhavslinje) Christiana, SARDINA was not renamed.
She must have had an uneventful wartime not any info I can find on her during that time.
1957 Sold to Cia de Nav. Epos S.A., Panama and managed by A Scufalos at Montevideo, one year after she was bought renamed in GEORGIOS S. and registered under Liberian flag.
1961 Sold to Cia de Nav. Pelagos, renamed STEFANOS.
1962 Sold to G.D. Patrikos, and managed by M. Scufalos, Piraeus, Greece, renamed in EGLI. It looks that the ship from 1957 till 1963 was owned by the Greece family Scufalos.
For her last owner she sailed a short time, on 24 February 1963 she left from Thessalonica around 08.40 with a full cargo of 2.800 ton pyrites, bound for Alexandria, Egypt.
The next day she transmitted by radio that she got a heavy list, after her cargo shifted. Shortly thereafter she did give a mayday.
A large rescue operation got underway but noting of the ship of her crew of 23 was found except the first radio officer who did swim to shore on the island Psathoura.
He told that during the night of the 25th around 1.30 the ship capsized and sank in a position around three miles off Psathoura Island.
Maldives 1997 3r sg 2698, scott 2227g.
Merchant Ships of the world in color 1910-1929 by Dunn.