Shipwrecks - Greece

Date: 1939-1943

By: Edge, Spence, active 1940s-1980s

Reference: PAColl-2242

Description: Photographs of ship Sebastiano Venier, including views showing the vessel aground on Methoni Point, Greece; photograph of the bombing of a communications centre at Aquila, Italy by B-25 bombers of the US 12th Army Air Force; and typescript of "The Jason Story". The motorship Sebastiano Venier, built in Amsterdam in 1939 under the name Jason, was requisitioned by the Italian Navy and renamed. On 9 December 1941, while carrying around 2,000 British prisoners of war, including New Zealanders, it was torpedoed by the submarine HMS Porpoise. The ship did not sink but managed to reach the shore at Point Methoni near Pilos where it was beached. Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-220333-F. Prints at PAColl-2242-1 Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 2004

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0004681

Description: Shows a ship captain standing on the top platform of an Olympic Games podium. He is wearing a 'Romania' shirt, holding his cellphone and wearing an Olive Wreath on his head. An Olympic Games official is about to give the man a medal and tells the man behind her "We're still in the 'afterglow' phase!". In the background is a cargo ship stuck in a wall, with two men underneath with a measuring ruler. Refers to the incident in which a Romanian cargo ship rammed into a Greek hillside, near the town of Stylida, north of Athens, as the captain was speaking on his cell phone in September 2004, shortly after the conclusion of Athens hosting the 2004 Olympic Games. Published in New Zealand Shipping Gazette Arrangement: This cartoon file was orginally delivered to the library within a sub-folder called 'NZ Shipping Gaz' which was inside a folder called 'AWS Cartoon Highlights, Nov'04-May'07' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).