Mutiny within the Greek navy according to telegrams published in the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad evening edition dated 30 October 1909

In a tiding dated Athens 29 October it was officially announced that the cabinet controlled the arsenal and the capitulation of the torpedo boats (1) was expected. The news however that the torpedo boats intended to attack Crete caused seriously commotion. In a tiding dated London 30 October informed the newspaper Times her readers that the Greek fleet fought with the torpedo boats causing two wounded but if the torpedo boats had victims was unknown. One torpedo boat was disabled, a second one disappeared in the direction of Eleusis and a third one visited Poros but depart again as a result of the hostile reception. The ships loyal to the cabinet were cruising off Piraeus. A third item dated Athens 30 October mentioned that the mutiny under the navy officers successful was suppressed. The naval troops and the labourers surrendered just like some officers. Rumours said that Tybaldos and his officers fled. During the bombardment were some firemen of the Sfendoni killed and some sailors wounded.

Note

1. In another items were the torpedo boats presumably more correctly called destroyers. The Sfendoni was a destroyer of the Thyella-class, ordered in 1905, laid down at the yard of Yarrow Shipbuilders, Cubitt Town, London the same year, launched and commissioned in 1905, temporarily in French hands between 1917 and 1918 and serving in the French navy and decommissioned in 1945. With a displacement of 350 tons standard were her dimensions 67,1 x 6,2 x 1,8 metres, the 6,000 hp allowed a maximum speed of 30 knots and her crew numbered 70 men.