UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C.  20549

FORM 6-K

REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO RULE 13A-16 OR 15D-16 OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the month of June 2016

Commission File Number:  001-33283

 

 

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INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT ON FORM 6-K

 

Attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Report on Form 6-K is a copy of the press release of Euroseas Ltd. (the "Company") announcing the results of the Company's 2016 Annual Meeting of Shareholders held on June 24, 2016.

This Report on Form 6-K is hereby incorporated by reference into the Company's Registration Statement on Form F-3 (File No. 333-194922) filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") on March 31, 2014, as amended, and the Company's Registration Statement on Form F-3 (File No. 333-208305) filed with the Commission on December 2, 2015.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Exhibit 99.1

 

EUROSEAS LTD. ANNOUNCES THE RESULTS

OF ITS 2016 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

Maroussi, Athens, Greece – June 27, 2016 – Euroseas Ltd. (NASDAQ: ESEA) (the "Company"), an owner and operator of drybulk and container carrier vessels and provider of seaborne transportation for drybulk and containerized cargoes, today announced the official results of its 2016 Annual General Meeting, held on June 24, 2016 at 10:30 a.m. local time in New York, NY USA.  The following proposals were approved by the Company's shareholders:

1.

Mr. Apostolos Tamvakakis and Mr. George Taniskidis were re-elected as Class C Directors to serve for a term of three years until the 2019 Annual Meeting of Shareholders ("Proposal One");

2.

An amendment to the Company's Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation to effect a reverse stock split of the Company's issued and outstanding shares of common stock by a ratio of between one-for-two and one-for-ten, inclusive, to be determined by the Company's Board of Directors in its discretion, and to authorize the Company's Board of Directors to implement the reverse stock split at any time prior to the Company's 2017 Annual Meeting of Shareholders by filing such amendment with the Registrar of Corporations of the Republic of the Marshall Islands ("Proposal Two"); and

3.

Deloitte Hadjipavlou, Sofianos & Cambanis S.A. was approved as the Company's independent auditors for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2016 ("Proposal Three").

About Euroseas Ltd.

 

Euroseas Ltd. was formed on May 5, 2005 under the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands to consolidate the ship owning interests of the Pittas family of Athens, Greece, which has been in the shipping business over the past 140 years. Euroseas trades on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker symbol ESEA.

 

Visit our website www.euroseas.gr.  Information contained on our

website does not constitute a part of this press release.