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The Greek shipping family has always extended a helping hand to help address the needs
of Greek society by undertaking a significant number of collective or individual ini-
tiatives. To highlight the maritime community’s social contribution, Naftika Chronika
presents the recent efforts of companies or individuals within Greek shipping that have
benefited the wider society.

The benevolent work
MARITIME of the Greek shipping family
INDUSTRY Edited by:

BENEVOLENCE
Panagiotis Korakas

“REVOLUTION 21 REFRAMED:
THE FLOATING EXHIBITION” COMPLETES
ITS COURSE
On Sunday, 31 July 2022, the exhibition “Rev-
olution 21 Reframed: The Floating Exhibition”
was concluded with an event held at the Naval
Tradition Park in Paleo Faliro, in front of the
legendary battleship “Averof”.
“Revolution 21 Reframed: The Floating Exhibi-
tion” was part of the Historical and Ethnological
Society of Greece and the National Historical
Museum’s versatile anniversary programme com-
memorating the 200 years since the beginning
of the Greek Revolution. The exhibition was
organised by the Historical and Ethnological
Society of Greece - National Historical Museum
(HESG/NHM), the “Maria Tsakos” Public Ben-
efit Foundation- International Centre for Naval
Research and Tradition, and Piraeus Bank. The
exhibition was hosted onboard the educational
sailing vessel “Mania”, kindly provided for this
purpose by the Tsakos Enhanced Education
Nautical School (TEENS).
The “Mania” began its journey on 26 June, visit-
ing 14 Greek islands with the aim of highlighting
the naval element of the Greek Revolution of
1821 through authentic relics from the NHM’s
collections (the cross from the ship of Miaoulis,
the grab from Kanaris’s torpedo boat, various
naval weapons and philhellenic objects dedi-
cated to the Greeks’ naval struggle, etc.) as well
as digital methods such as short videos, digital

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