The steamship EPTANISOS was built under Lloyd's Register of Shipping Special Survey for the Anglo-Greek Steam Navigation & Trading Co by Richardson, Duck & Co, Stockton-on-Tees, and was launched in February 1865. 747/588 tons (gross/net); 198.8 x 29.1 x 16.7 feet (length x breadth x depth of hold); iron construction, screw propulsion. The annual volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1865/66 and 1866/67 give the following information on the EPTANISOS:

Owner:
     1865/66-1866/67 - Anglo-Greek Steam Navigation & Trading Co
     1866/67         - Richardson, of Hartlepool

Port of Registry:
     1865/66-1866/67 - London
     1866/67         - Hartlepool

Port of Survey:
     1865/66-1866/67 - Hartlepool

Intended Voyage:
     1865/66-1866/67 - Mediterranean

On 12 April 1867, the EPTANISOS was purchased from Richardson by the Hamburg firm of H. J. Perlbach & Co, and renamed HANSA.

Captains:
     1867-1868 - J. H. Boeck
     1868-1879 - A. F. Brandt
     1875      - A. Krulle
     1879-1883 - G. H. M. Blanck
     1882      - H. Wolters
     1884-1891 - P. Kröger

Voyages:
     1867 - Havre (3 x); Antwerp (15 x)
     1868 - Antwerp (7 x); Antwerp/Havre; Havre (6 x); Havre/Dunkirk (2 x);
            Havre/Cardiff (2 x); Kopenhagen/Hull
     1869 - Antwerp (4 x); Dunkirk/Havre; Havre (2 x); Havre/Bordeaux; Dunkirk/Bordeaux;
            Rouen/Bordeaux; London/Cardiff; Hull (9 x)
     1870 - Antwerp; Antwerp/Hull; Hull (11 x)
     1871 - Dunkirk; Havre;  Antwerp/Hull (2 x); Hull (13 x)
     1872 - Hull (23 x)
     1873 - Hull (19 x)
     1874 - Hull (19 x); Antwerp
     1875 - Hull (22 x); Whitehaven/London
     1876 - Hull (26 x)
     1877 - Hull (23 x)
     1878 - Hull (26 x)
     1879 - Hull (23 x)
     1880 - Antwerp; Hull (25 x)
     1881 - Hull (17 x)
     1882 - Hull (24 x)
     1883 - Hull (25 x)
     1884 - Hull (26 x)
     1885 - Hull (25 x)
     1886 - Hull (23 x)
     1887 - Hull (26 x)
     1888 - Hull (25 x)

The HANSA ex EPTANISOS was sunk on 7 April 1892, after a collision, off the Dutch coast

Source: Walter Kresse, ed., Seeschiffs-Verzeichnis der Hamburger Reedereien, 1824-1888, Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, N. F., Bd. 5. (Hamburg: Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, 1969), vol. 2, p. 103. The Lloyd's Register of Shipping Special Survey under which the EPTANISOS was built is now held by the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (see in particular National Maritime Museum Research Guide H6, Lloyds: Lloyd's Register Survey Reports).