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Monday, 22 April 2013

New destroyers for Greece according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1932 no. 5

An item referred to the magazine Schiffbau dated 1 July reported that recently 2 of the 4 destroyers built in Italy for Greece were delivered. With a displacement of 1.445 tons were their dimensions 95,16 x 9,7 x 3,3 metres. Divided in 13 watertight compartments. During the building process was she partly electrically welded instead of riveted. The contracted horsepower was 40.000 hp although during trials was 53.000 hp achieved. The armament consisted of 4-12cm guns, 3-4cm guns and 6-53,3cm torpedo tubes.