Maid of Honour

Maid of Honour
Rig Class.Steam Yacht
General characteristics
Ton:487 tons
Beam:
ss MAID OF HONOUR

ss MAID OF HONOUR
built by Ailsa Shipbuilding Company,
Yard No 177
Engines by Shipbuilders
Last Name: ARIS (after 1965)
Previous Names: PINDOS (1965) PINDOS II (1949) SYLVANA (1922)
Port of Registry: Piraeus
Propulsion: Twin screw, triple exp 6cy
Built: 1907
Ship Type: Steam Yacht
Tonnage: 421 grt
Length: 175 feet 11
Breadth: 24 feet 7
Owner History:
Wm. K.Millar, London
1913 Marion G.Thornton, London
1922 Courtney Morgan, London
1924 Mrs Katherine Mackinnon, London
1937 Hubert S.Price, Southampton
1942 The Admiralty as danlayer and minesweeper depot
1949 Epirotiki SS Nav Co, Piraeus
1956 John Tripos, Piraeus
Commercial Bank of Greece
Status: Deleted from Register - 1998

Remarks: Steam Yacht for William K.Millar. Fate unknown.
Auxiliary Patrol Vessel, Requisitioned Steam Yacht 067. 2 x 12pdr
Commissioned 12/4/1915
10/2/1919
Renamed Sylvana
12/1939 hired as a danlayer, HMS Sylvana
P.No.4.90
11/1942 purchased by the RN
1944 Minesweeper Depot Ship
1946 Sold
Alistair Deayton noted in a 1991 Sea Breezes article on the Veterans, sale to a Greek owner in 1949, re
namings to ARIS (date not given) then PINDOS II (by 1960 and at that time having been converted to a passenger steamer).No history until 1987 when she was sold to the Commercial Bank of Greece and untraced thereafter
Seen here as a steam yacht at Monte Carlo in 1911.










Owners

Namefromto
William K Millar Esq 1908 1912

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