His mother was from the family of a famous participant in the Greek War of Independence, captain and ship owner, and then Vice Admiral and Prime Minister of the country Antonios Kriezis.

The elder brother, Antonis Ipitis (1854-1927), became an army officer, a teacher at the Hellenic Military Academy, and then a compiler and publisher of famous Greek-French and French-Greek dictionaries.

[5][6] On 25 March 1913: "Sfendoni" was in the escort of ships accompanying the royal Amphitrite IV [el], with the body of George I, who was assassinated in Thessaloniki.

[7] In the short Second Balkan War, Ipitis was the captain of the battleship Hydra and led a small squadron that supported the Greek units advancing against the Bulgarian positions on Mount Pangeo with fire from the Strimonikos Bay.

[8] After the outbreak of the First World War, and with the rank of Rear Admiral since 1914, Ipitis was the commander of the so-called "light fleet", almost all of whose ships were confiscated by the Entente in October 1916.

[9] As a monarchist, during the National Schism and after the return of Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos to Athens in June 1917, Ipitis was removed from command posts, demobilized and did not take part in the hostilities of the fleet.

The victory of the monarchists dealt an unexpected and terrible blow to the foreign policy positions of Greece and became a fatal event for the Greek population of Asia Minor.

The coast from Heraclea to the Georgian / Soviet border remained nominally under the sultan's control, but in operational terms it was under the jurisdiction of the Royal Navy.

The exits of the ships of the fleet could not stop the genocide itself, just as they could not provide significant assistance to the surviving inhabitants of Pontus and the Pontic partisans hiding in the mountains.

By that time, the city had become a center for supplying the Kemalists with cargo coming from Soviet Russia, and a large number of small ships for these transportation were based in its port.

As a result of the shelling, weapons and ammunition depots, piers and moored ships, oil and gasoline tanks, barracks on Charchamba Hill, customs and port authorities were destroyed.

In September, Ipitis commanded a squadron that provided fire support to the III corps of the army, during its evacuation from Panormos and Artaki to the European coast of the Sea of Marmara .

As a monarchist, Ipitis did not take part in the ensuing Venizelist uprising in September 1922 the Army and Navy, and in January 1923 he was demobilized with the rank of Vice Admiral in retirement.

Before World War II, Admiral Ipitis became the director of the Greek Maritime Union (Ελληνικής Θαλάσσια Ένωση), established in 1931, which was abolished in 1935 and its functions were transferred to the Ministry of Defense.