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Acacia

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1902 Acacia Lilly Shipping Co. Ltd.
1908 Erissos C.G. Harocopos, Argostoli.
1916 Erissos Gregory J. Theophilatos
1922 Erissos Emmanuel Nicolaides
1929 Erissos A. Behrsin
1940 Astra VT 516 Russian Navy

Fate

The military transport vessel was loading cars & wounded men when she was bombed by aircraft at Oranienbaum Roads, near Leningrad on 1 October 1941. The crew & the wounded reached shore. No lives lost. The vessel was raised on 25 September 1942 by the rescue service of the Baltic Navy & later broken up.