To Hellenic Mediterranean Lines.


The Cyrenia (7,527 grt, 430 ft. long) was employed in the Pacific with the Union Line of New Zealand as the
Maunganui from her building in 1911 until sold to Greece in 1948. Hellenic Mediterranean Lines used her to carry
refugees and migrants to Australia until 1957 when she was broken up.


The Ionia (4,856 grt, 350 ft. long) was originally the Digby of 1913, employed on Warren Lines' North Atlantic service.
She was transferred within the Furness Group to the New York-West Indies run in 1925, being renamed Dominica.
Sold in 1936 to become the Baltrover, sailing for United Baltic Corporation from the U.K. to Baltic ports,
she was again sold in 1947, this time to Hellenic Mediterranean Lines and given yet another name, Ionia.
She sailed with the Greek company until 1964. Under new owners she sank in 1965.


The Corinthia (3,721 grt, 338 ft. long) was built in 1911 as the Oranje Nassau for KNSM - Royal Netherlands Steamship Co.
After WW2, she was renamed Corinthia when sold to Hellenic Mediterranean Lines. She was broken up in 1959.
A slightly larger running mate of the Corinthia when with KNSM, the Stuyvesant, rejoined her as the Aeolia in 1950.

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See interior views of the Ionia and Corinthia on this page (sailing list of 1949-50).

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This page last updated June 13, 2023.