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The two ships reached Greece in July 1914, just before the outbreak of World War I at the end of the month. As Greece remained neutral during the first three years of the war, the two ships saw little service. In October 1916, the French seized the Greek fleet and disarmed Kilkis and Lemnos; they were put back into service at the end of the war.
The list of battleships includes all battleships built between 1859 and 1946, listed alphabetically. The boundary between ironclads and the first battleships, the so-called ' pre-dreadnought battleship ', is not obvious, as the characteristics of the pre-dreadnought evolved in the period from 1875 to 1895.
These ships are about 3/4 the size of the smallest 2nd class battleship of the period and are pretty comparable to the German Siegfried class coastal defense ships. Conway's All the World's Fighting ships 1860–1905 calls them armored ships and Tony Gibbons' Complete Encyclopedia of Battleships lists them (without characterizing them) right ...
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HS Averof today (2006) as a museum ship in its original paint scheme. Georgios Averof (1909 – today) – A Pisa-class armored cruiser (the only ship of this type still in existence), she served as the flagship of the Hellenic Royal Navy during the Balkan Wars, World War I and World War II, now a floating museum at Palaio Faliro.
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