GREEK STEAMER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23273, 16 February 1939, Page 14

GREEK STEAMER

ADELFOTIS ARRIVES

third since great war KEEN WRESTLERS IN CREW The first Greek ship to visit Auckland for four years, and tho third to do iso since tho war, tho steamer Adelfotis arrived at an anchorage in the stream last evening after a voyage of 60 days from Sfax, a seaport in Tunis, North Africa. The Adelfotis brought tho first cargo of phosphate to reach Auckland for many years from Tunis, which is a protectorate of France. With the exception of rough weather when near New Zealand, a fine voyage was experienced by the ship, which isteamed by way of tho Panama Canal. Owing to fears of attack by contestants in the Spanish war, large Greek flags were painted on tho sides of the Adelfotis when she approached Gibraltar, but the vessel cleared the Mediterranean unmolested.

Tho Adelfotis, of 5838 tons gross, was built at Newcastle in 1917 as the Carlow Castle. Although she changed hands some years later, being renamed Cape St. Columba, she remained under British registry until 1935, she was purchased by Carras Brothers and registered at Chios. Her master is Captain M. J. Carras

In spite of the ship's age, she is m excellent condition, and reached port after her long voyage clean and fresh. Her complement, composed entirely of Greeks, appears to be a fino typo, and includes some keen exponents of the Graeco-Roman style of wrestling. The Adelfotis will berth this morning at King's Wharf to discharge bagged phosphate, and will sail m about ten days for New Plymouth to complete unloading. Tho steamer will then proceed to Australia to load flour for Takubar, near Tientsin, in the Yellow Sea.