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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.
Kilkis or Lemnos in port in the United States At the outbreak of World War I in July 1914, Greece's pro-German monarch, Constantine I , decided to remain neutral, so the ships saw no action. The Entente powers landed troops in Salonika in 1915, which was a source of tension between France and Greece.
Both ships continued to see service in the Greek fleet until the early 1930s, with Kilkis serving as the flagship of the fleet. [10] In 1932, Lemnos was disarmed and used as a barracks ship, and Kilkis was reduced to a training ship. [3] Lemnos was used as a barracks ship after 1937, [11] and Kilkis became a floating battery at Salamis Naval ...
Both battleships were relegated to reserve and auxiliary roles in the mid-1930s. Kilkis, which had been upgraded in the mid-1920s, became a naval artillery training facility in 1932. Lemnos 's guns were removed and installed in a coastal defense battery on the island of Aegina. [59]
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As a stopgap measure, they purchased a pair of pre-dreadnought battleships from the United States: Mississippi and Idaho, which became Kilkis and Lemnos, respectively. [33] Kerr criticized this purchase as "penny-wise and pound-foolish" for ships that were "entirely useless for war", carrying a price that could have paid for a brand-new ...