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The Chandris Lines Memorabilia Slideshow.
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The above slideshow images were supplied courtesy of Nick Vlahadamis.
Nick Vlahadamis was neither a crew member nor a passenger of any of the Chandris liners. He does
remember as an infant boarding the Patris to say farewell or greet a
relative some time in 1969-70, on the Patris in Sydney.
He is the son of a passenger who arrived in Australia on the Patris
in Fremantle, Western Australia on the 20th. May,1963.
Nick remembered him father-who passed away in 1985-speaking very warmly
about his experience as a passenger on what was then a migrant ship.
Nick stumbled on a Chandris lines ashtray in an old
wares store in the tropical city of Cairns, Northern Australia some time in
1992. From then on his interest has snowballed.
A visit to his fathers village in Greece (2000), Nick discovered photos taken by
a friend of his father before he boarded the ship in Piraeus, and a photo of him
involved in some type of mock play deck.
Nick is 37 and fascinated by the stories of those who came from so far away to
Australia, and those carriers who brought them here.