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Lemnos or Limnos was the English-language name of Θ/Κ Λήμνος, a 13,000 ton Mississippi-class battleship originally built by the United States Navy in 1904–1908. As USS Idaho (BB-24), she was purchased by the Greek Navy in 1914 and renamed Lemnos, along with her sister Mississippi, renamed Kilkis.
As the Ottomans had a significant head start in battleship construction, the Greek Navy purchased two obsolete American pre-dreadnoughts—USS Mississippi and Idaho—as a stop-gap measure in June 1914. The ships were renamed Kilkis and Lemnos, respectively. Greek naval plans were interrupted by the outbreak of World War I in
Three ships of the Hellenic Navy have borne the name Lemnos or Limnos (Greek: Λήμνος), named after the island of Lemnos and the First Balkan War Battle of Lemnos: Greek battleship Lemnos (1914–1932), a Mississippi-class pre-dreadnought battleship; Greek landing ship Lemnos (L158) (1943–1977), an LST1-class landing ship
Lemnos (1914–1932) – The ex-USS Idaho (BB-24) was in Greek service named after the Naval Battle of Lemnos, hulk sunk by German aircraft in 1941 [2] Salamis (1914) Taken over by Germany 1914, not completed – BU 1923; Vasilefs Konstantinos A Bretagne-class battleship ordered in 1913 but not completed due to the outbreak of World War I ...
Ships built by William Cramp & Sons and Cramp Shipbuilding Co. in Philadelphia, ... Greek battleship Lemnos; USS Ling; USS Lionfish; USS Little Rock (CL-92) USS Long; M.
For a list of ships in the fleet in this era, see The Hellenic Navy in 1917. Greek battleship Lemnos at Constantinople in 1919. The Navy, shortly before the Balkan Wars, was composed of a destroyer and battleship fleet. Its mission was primarily offensive, aiming at capturing the Ottoman-held islands of the Eastern Aegean, and establish naval ...
Kilkis and Lemnos departed Smyrna on the evening of 8 September. [20] Kilkis under attack by German bombers. Kilkis underwent repairs and upgrades in 1926–1928 but was already obsolete due to low speed and low freeboard. [21] The ship had her boilers re-tubed during this refit. [22]
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