Kalliopi
Photo Courtesy of Library of Contemporary History, Stuttgart
| Name | Kalliopi | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 4,965 tons | ||
| Completed | 1910 - Northumberland Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Howden-on-Tyne | ||
| Owner | Diamantis J. Pateras & Sons, Chios | ||
| Homeport | Chios | ||
| Date of attack | 7 Feb 1943 | Nationality:  Greek | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-402 (Siegfried von Forstner) | ||
| Position | 55.27N, 26.08W - Grid AL 4418 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 36 (4 dead and 32 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | SC-118 | ||
| Route | St. John, New Brunswick - Halifax - London | ||
| Cargo | 6500 tons of steel and lumber | ||
| History | Completed in January 1910 as Austro-Hungarian Himalaia for Himalaia SS Co (D. Tripcovich), Trieste. In August 1914 laid up at New York. In April 1917 seized by the US government and renamed Kermanshah for Kerr Navigation Co, New York. From August 1918 to March 1919 commissioned in the US Navy as cargo transport USS Kermanshah (ID # 1473). 1922 returned to Hungary and renamed Oceana for Oceana Sea Navigation Co Ltd, Budapest. 1927 sold to Greece and renamed Nymphe for P. & G. Lykiardopulo. 1928 renamed Kalliopi for Diamantis J. Pateras & Sons, Chios. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 07.35 hours on 7 Feb, 1943, the Kalliopi in station #44 of convoy SC-118 was torpedoed and sunk by U-402. | ||
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