SS Andrios

SS Andrios was a cargo ship which sailed for a number of owners under several names before sinking off the Berlengas Islands, near the coast of Portugal, in 1926.

[1][2] She was initially ordered by Robert Mackill, Glasgow from the yards of Napier & Miller Yoker and was launched on 16 April 1901 as Liddlesdale but was purchased before completion by the Hamburg-America Line and renamed Arabia.

[1] She sailed during the First World War and in 1919 was acquired by the Shipping Controller, and managed on their behalf by the London-based company Haldin & Co. She continued as Arabia under their ownership, and in 1920 was sold to the Belgian Government and managed by Association Maritime Belge, of Antwerp.

De Cort & Verschueren, and left Belgian ownership in 1923 when she was bought by the British firm by H Harrison (Shipping) Ltd.

They renamed her Caterham, but sold her later that year to Goulandris Brothers, a Greek company but based in London.