From Trocadero to S/S Bandirma

The cabin of the BANDIRMA, in which Ataturk travelled to Samsun, was preserved and is in the Navy Museum at Istanbul. In 2000-2001 a replica of BANDIRMA was built by Taşkınlar Shipbuilding Co, and opened as a museum ship in Doğu Park (East Park), Samsun in 2003 

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Ship's original Lloyd's registration paper.

The steamer Bandırma[1], built 1878 in Paisley, Scotland[2], was a 47.7-metre (156 ft) cargo ship with 192 gross tons capacity. It was christened Trocadero, and under this name, it sailed five years long as a freighter for Dansey and Robinson. In 1883, it was purchased by Greek ship-owner H. Psicha Preaus, and renamed SS Kymi. 7 years later, it was sold to another Greek ship-owner, Cap. Andreadis, sailing under the same name. In 1891, it went down following an accident but could be floated again.
The Ottoman Maritime Co. purchased the ship in 1894, renamed it SS Panderma. It served in the Sea of Marmara as a passenger-cargo vessel. On 28 October 1910, the company's status was changed, and it was renamed Ottoman Transportation Authority. The ship’s name was also changed to SS Bandırma, Turkish for Panderma, and it served then as a mail ship in the coastal waters of Ottoman Empire. 

During World War I, SS Bandırma collided with the British submarine HMS E11, and survived a torpedo attack from the same vessel. 

Bandırma was taken out of duty in 1924. It was sold 1925, and demolished in a shipyard in Golden Horn within four months.

 


1878 SS Trocadero, Great Britain, Dansey and Robinson
1883 SS Kymi, Greece, H. Psicha Preus
1890 SS Kymi, Greece, Cap. Andreadis
1894 SS Panderma, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Maritime Co.

1880 W. H. Sollas, London 

1883 H. Psicha, Piraeus 1888 E. Arvaniti, Piraeus 

1891 Capt Andreadis, Piraeus 

1892 G. & P. Dandelo, Piraeus 

1893 Rama P. Derasmo, Istanbul 
1894 Idare-i Mahsusa, Istanbul 

1910 Osmanli Seyr-i Sefain Idaresi, Istanbul 

1923 Turkiye Seyr-i Sefain Idaresi, Istanbul  

SS Bandırma, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Transportation Co.

1924 taken out of service
1925 demolished
2001 replica built
2003 replica put in service as museum ship in Samsun. 

[1] 

Name Official number Flag IMO TROCADERO  79625  GBR  Year built Date launched Date completed 1878  1878/07  Vessel type Vessel description Cargo General  Iron Screw Steamer   Builder Yard Yard no McIntyre & Co, Paisley Phoenix Works  21

Tonnage Length Breadth Depth Draft 328 grt / 192 nrt / 150.1 ft  22.4 ft  11.4 ft  Engine builder Hutson & Corbett, Glasgow Engine detail C2cyl(20&35x24in), 60hp, 1-screw

[2] The partnership of Fleming & Ferguson , shipbuilders, was established in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, in 1885 , and took over the business and yard of H McIntyre & Co continuing McIntyre's sequence of yard numbers from 121. Fleming & Ferguson Ltd was incorporated as a limited liability company in 1895 , being reconstituted as a company with the same name in 1898. In 1903, the Ferguson part of the business broke away, setting up their own ship yard at Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, Scotland, as Ferguson Brothers in wrongful-anticipation of the former firms failure