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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 Hellenic Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the Armed Forces of Greece. As of 2024, the Navy operates a wide variety of warships including: 13 frigates, 10 submarines, 19 missile boats, 10 gunboats, and 15 helicopters.
Only disambiguation and shipindex pages (both used to detail multiple ships of the same name) should be included in this category. Individual ships (including those that are the only one to bear the name) should instead be categorised in Category:Ships of the Hellenic Navy , or the relevant subcategory for the type of vessel.
List of battleships of Greece; Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ... Battleships of the Hellenic Navy (1 C, 2 P)
List of battleships of Greece; S. Greek battleship Salamis This page was last edited on 2 October 2009, at 14:20 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The three Hydra class ships are not now regarded as modern battleships like the Royal Sovereign class was; they belong to the ironclad era. As such, they belong on a List of ironclad warships of Greece list, along with Vasilissa Olga and Vasilifs Georgios. It doesn't exactly matter what the Greeks called the ships at the time, for the reason ...
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 ...
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.