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Spetzai - a general history

Masters: 1894-96 W Maclean: 1897 RJ Dosser: 1899-1903 JW Tindall: 1905 G Marronati: 1906 G Mavromati: 1907-08 A Bajiotis: 1908-16 Th. Theotocatas.

On a voyage from Patrus for Messina the vessel was about 80 miles from Zante on 4 December 1915 when a shot was fired from an Austrian submarine Spetzai stopped & the master was ordered aboard the submarine. When the Austrians discovered that Captain Stanley Wilson MP & Colonel Napier, a former military attaché, were aboard Spetzai they were ordered aboard the submarine & detained.

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