HISTORY

PART B - GEORGE N. PITTAS BROTHERS AND COMPANY - PIRAEUS

Sometime after the death of Nikolaos F. Pittas in 1913 the company was renamed after the eldest of his sons, George. The emblem of the family business became the 5-spiked star symbolizing the union of the five brothers (this star still forms the basis of Eurobulk's emblem and is painted on all Eurobulk managed ships funnels). All 5 of them became captains and chief engineers and traveled on family owned ships exploiting them as best as they could.



GEORGE 1869-1957
GEORGE 1869-1957
IOANNIS 1871-1945
IOANNIS 1871-1945
FRAGGOULIS 1873-1956
FRAGGOULIS 1873-1956
DIMITRIOS 1880-1972
DIMITRIOS 1880-1972
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ARISTIDES 1888-1967

Aristides N. Pittas the youngest of the 5 had the innovative for those times idea of establishing an office ashore and coordinating the family business and some vessel requirements such as cargo bookings and crewing needs from ashore. Thus the first family office was established in 1926 in Romania which was at the time a big commodity exporter mainly for grain and coal. During those times the family controlled vessels rose up to 10,000 dwt and were steam driven. World war 2 followed and most of the family run vessels were bombed, torpedoed and lost. However the family made it back to the shipmanagement field mainly led by the two younger brothers Dimitrios and Aristides. Many of the children of this generation of our family followed their parents footsteps and formed the foundation of the third Generation of the Pittas Shipping tradition. They were initially represented by Nikos Pittas, son of Aristides, who catered for the family shipping interests during 1948 - 1960 through the offices of Lusi and Carras Shipping in London.

Following is a list of vessels managed by the second generation of the Pittas family:


NAME DWT BUILT BOUGHT SOLD COMMENTS
S/S NIKOLAOS 1300 1914 1917 Torpedoed
S/S ARTEMIS 1350 1881 1919 1930
S/S Nikolaos 1750 1886 1923 1933
S/S Darmas 2200 1895 1925 1941 Torpedoed
S/S George Pittas 5300 1901 1927 1934
S/S Artemis Pittas 2300 1906 1931 1943 Bombed
S/S Nikolaos Pittas 2650 1913 1933 1936
S/S Poseidon 6530 1918 1934 1940 Torpedoed
S/S Stliany 5000 1937 1941 Bombed
S/S Marilena 8570 1927 1948 1959

S/S NIKOLAOS

SHE WAS TORPEDOED BY THE GERMANS AND WENT DOWN DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

ARTEMIS PITTAS

THIS VESSEL WAS REQUISITIONED BY GERMANS AUTHORITIES DURING THE 2ND WORLD WAR, RENAMED TO S/S ADOLPH HITLER AND BOMBED AT MILOS ISLAND ON 21.03.43 FROM R.A.F.

S/S POSEIDON

PURCHASED WITH SEVERAL DAMAGES CAUSED BY FIRE. COST OF REPAIRS AMOUNTED TO ABOUT STG 7.000. TORPEDOED WITH ALL HANDS LOST IN A CONVOY FROM MEXICO TO ENGLAND IN 1940.

S/S MARINELLA

TORPEDOED WITH ALL HANDS LOST IN A CONVOY FROM MEXICO TO ENGLAND IN 1940




PART A
FRAGGOULIS & NIKOLAOS F PITTAS AND BROTHERS - CHIOS

PART B
GEORGE N. PITTAS BROTHERS AND COMPANY - PIRAEUS

PART C
CHIOS NAVIGATION Co Ltd - LONDON

PART D
OCEANBULK MARITIME S.A. - PIRAEUS

PART E
EUROBULK Ltd - ATHENS