In her edition dated 7 October 1912 the local Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant published a news item dealing with the Greek navy. According to this item were four destroyers bought original destined for Argentina but refused dealing with the disappointing trial speed. There were 8 torpedo boats all ready launched in 1906 and one large modern ship available.(1) The latter was an armoured cruiser of 10.000 tons since 1911 in service. Further were small aged gunboats available.
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1. This must be the Georgios Averof, ordered 1909, laid down at the Orlando Shipyards at Livorno, Italy 27 February 1910, launched 12 March 1910, commissioned 1 September 1911, decommissioned 1 August 1952 and nowadays still existing as a museum ship. See also on this weblog the note published 13 September 2010 “Greek armoured cruiser Georgios Averof (1910-still existing as museum ship at Faliron”.
