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I'm hoping some of you Greekophiles (?) can help me out here.

On our recent trip to Greece we stayed at a smashing spot just north of Githio on the Peloponnese.
There is a shipwreck just a few metres from the beach with the name 'Dimitrios', i've entered the stoppover in the database....

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I'd like to know a bit more about it and searched high and low on t'internet but can't find any decent info.

Does anyone know any more about this ship and how it ended up there?

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http://www.submerged.co.uk/dimitrios.php

Is this any help???is it the same Ship

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Mavis, thanks but thats not it.
Slightly different spelling - 'Dimetrious' - and was wrecked somewhere in Devon by the looks of it.

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http://www.artificialowl.net/2008/09/shipwreck-of-dimitrios-near-gythio.html

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/Greece/Pe loponnesus/Lakonia/Gytheio/photo1181641.htm

The view seems to be that it was smuggling either drugs or cigarettes from South Africa or Turkey and was wrecked in a storm or seized by the Greek Government and lost when being towed to port.

Last edited by Stanner on Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:06 pm; edited 1 time in total

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Stanner wrote:

http://www.artificialowl.net/2008/09/shipwreck-of-dimitrios-near-gythio.html

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/Greece/Pe loponnesus/Lakonia/Gytheio/photo1181641.htm

I saw those but they still are not saying how and why it happened

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Stanner wrote:

http://www.artificialowl.net/2008/09/shipwreck-of-dimitrios-near-gythio.html

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/Greece/Pe loponnesus/Lakonia/Gytheio/photo1181641.htm

Thanks, I had seen those links, plenty of photo's but no proper info on the ship itself.

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"Is said that the ship made smuggling of cigarettes from Turkey to Italy, when it fell in storm and was abandoned in this beach of Peloponnese."

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First post just edited to add explanation(s) I found - other than that it's a total mystery.

So probably just dumped there by the local tourist board to cause a mystery and draw in lots of tourists.

Could also be a work by Anthony Gormley I suppose.

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As you google there are many Ships abandoned
http://www.cyprus-travel-secrets.com/shipwreck-off-the-coast-of-p aphos.html

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what i heard is that this ship was coming from the south (Africa) and was scouted to be carrying drugs into Europe, which it was.   the ship was impounded by the Greek government and left-in-tow. how it go to where it is now, i'm not sure. i guess it was just disregarded by the government and that was that.

There's a book, apparently

X. Dounis "Shipwrecks in the Greek seas"

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