The Dutch newspaper Vlissingse Courant dated Friday 3 May 1940 reported that the Greek cargo ship Evgenia of 5.300 ton while underway from Antwerp to sea off the lighthouse at Nieuwesluis on Wednesday at 9.30 o’clock stranded caused by the fog. Due to low tide she was not able to come free on its own. At 12.oo o’clock arrived the Dutch seagoing tug Zwarte Zee of L. Smiy&Co.’s Internationale Sleepdienst at Rotterdam and as 15.00 o’clock the Belgian tug Max. The Greek captain refused however every assistance. At 21.30 o’clock with high tide he tried again to come free on its own although without any results. At 22.00 o’clock arrived the Belgian tug Inatigable of the firm Lize at Antwerp. Next day at 09.00 o’clock asked the Greek captain for assistance although claiming that they had to salvage his ship within 30 minutes. In the meantime was also the Dutch tug Thames arrived, but she was not needed. The sea embankment was quite damaged and the ship was towed to Flushing making water. In the afternoon she was docked in the dry dock of the Kon.Mij. De Schelde for investigation in which manner her bottom eventually was damaged.
Roger Jordan mentioned in his book The World’s Merchant Fleets 1939 an Evgenia Chandri owned by John D. Chandris of Pireaus. Measuring 5.317 gross register tonnage and a deadweight of 10.900 tons with as dimensions 425.2’ x 54’0” x 25’8”. Speed 10,0 knots. Built in 1920 at the Harima Dockyard, Harima, Japan. Ex-Rocky Maru, later the Stadsdijk (1930). As a Greek ship was her hull painted black with a white band and red-boot topped while the a black topped yellow funnel.
