Company: DSX-PB
Filing Date: 2025-01-07
Form Type: SC TO-I/A
Source: 0000919574-25-000124
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Company: DIANA SHIPPING INC.
Filing Date: 2025-01-07
Form: SC TO-I/A
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

SCHEDULE TO

TENDER OFFER STATEMENT Under Section 14(d)(1) or 13(e)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Amendment No. 1)

DIANA SHIPPING INC. (Name of Subject Company (Issuer)) DIANA SHIPPING INC. (Names of Filing Person(s) (Issuer)) Common Shares of Beneficial Interest, Par Value $0.01 per share (Title of Class of Securities) Y2066G104 (CUSIP Number of Class of Securities) Mr. Ioannis Zafirakis Diana Shipping Inc. Pendelis 16, 175 64 Palaio Faliro, Athens, Greece Tel: + 30-210-9470-100 (Name, Address and Telephone Number of Person Authorized to Receive Notices and Communications on Behalf of Filing Person(s))

Copies to:

| Edward S. Horton, Esq.   |
| Seward & Kissel LLP      |
| One Battery Park Plaza   |
| New York, New York 10004 |

December 2, 2024 (Date Tender Offer First Published, Sent or Given to Security Holders)

| ☐ | Check the box if the filing relates solely to preliminary communications made before the commencement of a tender offer. |

Check the appropriate boxes below to designate any transactions to which this statement relates:

| ☐ |                                             |                                            |                                                  | third-party tender offer subject to Rule 14d-1. |
| ☒ |                                             | issuer tender offer subject to Rule 13e-4. |                                                  |                                                 |
| ☐ |                                             |                                            | going-private transaction subject to Rule 13e-3. |                                                 |
| ☐ | amendment to Schedule 13D under Rule 13d-2. |                                            |                                                  |                                                 |

Check the following box if the filing is a final amendment reporting the results of the tender offer. ☐

This Amendment No. 1 (this "Amendment No. 1") amends and supplements the Tender Offer Statement on Schedule TO (together with any subsequent amendments and supplements thereto, the "Schedule TO"), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Diana Shipping Inc., a Marshall Islands corporation ("Diana Shipping" or the "Company"), on December 2, 2024. The Schedule TO relates to the offer by the Company to purchase up to 15,000,000