Candidate ships for future preservation?

Ayanamikun · Post by **Ayanamikun** » Thu Nov 30, 2017 4:52 am

An idea for a thread, to list and find old ships, still working/are around but not yet recognized as worth preserving. This was an idea inspired by the Hellenic navy's aging fleet, that includes some support ships, like tugs, from the 1940s.

Ayanamikun · Post by **Ayanamikun** » Thu Nov 30, 2017 4:55 am

Agioi Anargiri is a "Perama" or type of large caïque, that was restored for cruising. She was built in 1940.

Before and after her rebuilt:

Ayanamikun · Post by **Ayanamikun** » Sun Dec 10, 2017 5:02 am

A navy tug, called Eas, still in commission. Built in US under the namy ANKACHAR in 1945

http://www.hellenicnavy.gr/el/o-stolos- ... -aias.html

Post by **Pim vW** » Sun Dec 10, 2017 9:36 am

Ankachak (YTB-501), later (YTM-767).
Transferred to the Greek Navy under lease arrangements, renamed HS Aias (A412)
Struck from the US Naval Register in December 1977 and sold to Greece

Navsource lists her as 'fate unknown'

Well, now we know, thanks

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