SS Bandırma

	SS Bandırma ship replica in Samsun
History
Ottoman Empire
Name	SS Bandırma (1910); ex Panderma (1894); ex Kymi (1883); ex Trocadero (1878);
Builder	Paisley, Scotland
Launched	1878
Out of service	1924
Fate	Broken up
General characteristics
Type	Cargo ship
Tonnage	192 GRT
Length	47.7 m (156 ft 6 in)

SS Bandırma was an

Turkish national movement

.

The ship

The steamer Bandırma, built 1878 in

gross register tons capacity. It was christened Trocadero, and under this name, it sailed five years long as a freighter for Dansey and Robinson.^[1] 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

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.

The mission

It went into the history of

Entente powers occupying the capital and controlling the Ottoman government.^{[citation needed}

]

Mustafa Kemal Pasha, accompanied with 22 officers, 25 soldiers, and 8 administrative staff sailed in heavy weather on the old steamer with a not functioning compass needed to navigate in the wavy

Turkish national movement contrary to the orders given to him by the Ottoman government in İstanbul that resulted in the declaration of the Republic of Turkey after the Turkish War of Independence

almost four years later.

The replica

In view of its important historical role in the birth of the Republic of Turkey, the governor and the mayor of Samsun Province both initiated the rebuilding of Bandırma in original dimensions and outlook. The building of the replica by Taşkınlar Shipbuilding Co. started on 9 May 2000, and was completed on 15 April 2001. The new Bandırma was opened as a museum ship by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on 19 May 2003 at Doğu Park (East Park) in Samsun. Wax figures of Mustafa Kemal Pasha and his followers on the ship are on display along with historical items in the museum ship today.

Ship's register

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.
1910 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

References

^ "Trocadero". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 2 October 2018.

External links

41°16′24″N 36°22′02″E / 41.27333°N 36.36722°E / 41.27333; 36.36722

[CMRT-1] "Trocadero". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 2 October 2018.

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