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Starting in 1911, the Ottoman Empire—Greece's traditional naval rival—set about modernizing its fleet. That year, the Ottomans ordered the dreadnought Reşadiye.The expansion of Ottoman naval power threatened Greek control of the Aegean; to counter the Ottoman dreadnought, Greece decided to order a dreadnought of its own, Salamis, from a German shipyard. [2]
The Ulstein X-Bow (or just X-BOW) is an inverted ship's bow designed by Ulstein Group to improve handling in rough seas, and to lower fuel consumption by causing less hydrodynamic drag. [1] It is shaped somewhat like a submarine's bow. [2] Bourbon Orca anchor tug, shown in 2012, was the first ship built with an Ulstein X-Bow in 2006.
Greece became engaged in a naval arms race with the Ottoman Empire in the early 1910s; in 1910 the Ottomans had purchased a pair of German pre-dreadnoughts (renamed Barbaros Hayreddin and Turgut Reis) and ordered dreadnought battleships from Britain in 1911 and 1914.
Georgios Averof, acquired in 1909, was the first major component of Greece's rearmament program. Following the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, during which the Ottoman fleet had proved incapable of challenging Greece's navy for control of the Aegean Sea, the Ottomans began a naval expansion program, initially rebuilding several old ironclad warships into more modern vessels. [1]
Dreadnought mounted ten 12-inch guns. 12-inch guns had been standard for most navies in the pre-dreadnought era, and this continued in the first generation of dreadnought battleships. The Imperial German Navy was an exception, continuing to use 11-inch guns in its first class of dreadnoughts, the Nassau class .
The Greek cabinet announced that it would take actions to cut its national deficit by $6.5 billion for the fiscal year. "Measures which will yield 4.8 billion euros have been decided. Half will be ...
The ram was a naval weapon in the Greek/Roman antiquity and was used in such naval battles as Salamis [2] and Actium. Naval warfare in the Mediterranean rarely used sails, and the use of rams specifically required oarsmen rather than sails in order to maneuver with accuracy and speed, and particularly to reverse the movement of a ramming ship ...
Rigopulos M1941 [14] (Austrian origin and Greek modification) Philippidis M1925 [14] (Austrian origin and Greek modification) Lelakis M1923 [14] (Austrian origin and Greek modification) Light machine guns. Breda M1930 (Italian captured) Bren machine gun (British made, used by exiled Greek forces) Chauchat M1915 (French made) EPK M1939 [15 ...