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Averof in camouflage paint, RN Bombay Station, 1942. In the early morning of 18 April 1941, after the collapse of the Greco-German front, the Averof ' s crew disobeyed direct orders to scuttle the ship in preventing her possible capture by the enemy. They cut through a closed harbor-boom with axes and handsaws to let the vessel escape, and ...
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.
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]
Influenced by communist agitators, her crew mutinied in 1944, but it was suppressed without any bloodshed. Georgios Averof returned to Greece after the German evacuation in late 1944 and became a museum ship in 1952. She is the only surviving armored cruiser in the world. [1]
Name in Greek Builder Active Notes Submarines (10) Glavkos class : Type 209/1100: HS Nireus HS Triton: S111 S112 Νηρεύς Τρίτων: HDW: 2: Were modernized in 1993-2000. 2/4 submarines are active. HS Glavkos was decommissioned in 2011 while, as of September 2022, HS Proteus will serve as a submarine museum. [1] [2] [3] Poseidon class
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George Averoff was born in Metsovo in Northern Greece, into an Aromanian family. [1] [2] He moved to Cairo, Egypt, in 1837 to work in a shop run by his brother, Anastasios.. Thanks to his bold tactics and business activities, he became the biggest merchant in Eg
The Greek flotilla, which included the armored cruiser Georgios Averof and three Hydra-class ironclads, sailing from the island of Lemnos, altered course to the northeast to block the advance of the Ottoman battleships. [51] The Ottoman ships opened fire on the Greeks at 9:40, from a range of about 15,000 yd (14,000 m).