List of decommissioned ships of the Hellenic Navy

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This is a list of retired naval ships operated by the Hellenic Navy during its history.

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Capital ships

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The ironclad Hydra

Battleships

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The battleship Lemnos

Mississippi-class battleships


Ironclads

Hydra-class ironclads


Ships of the line

Coastal patrol boats

Three Delos-class (Abeking) air rescue patrol boats.

Two Goulandris class (Neorion shipyards).

Two Panagopoulos class (Hellenic shipyards HSY).

Corvettes

RHS Sachtouris underway in September 1943, shortly after her transfer to the Royal Hellenic Navy. HMS Peony.jpg
RHS Sachtouris underway in September 1943, shortly after her transfer to the Royal Hellenic Navy.

Flower-class corvettes

Sail corvettes

Steam corvettes

Cruisers

Armoured cruisers

HS Averof today (2006) as a museum ship in its original paint scheme. Averof Today2.jpg
HS Averof today (2006) as a museum ship in its original paint scheme.

Light cruisers

Sail cruisers

Destroyers

Charles F. Adams-class destroyers

Fletcher-class destroyers

HS Velos (D16) as a museum ship (2006) AT Velos starboard.JPG
HS Velos (D16) as a museum ship (2006)

Freccia-class destroyers

Gearing-class destroyers

FRAM I type

FRAM II type

German V-class destroyers

Gleaves-class destroyers

Hunt-class destroyers

Modified G-class destroyers

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CoA of RHS Vasilissa Olga

Niki-class destroyers

Rhein-class destroyer tenders

Thiria-class destroyers

Thyella-class destroyers

Wild Beast-class destroyers/Cannon-class destroyer escorts

Electronic surveillance ships

Fleet support ships

Frigates

Elli-class frigates/Kortenaer-class frigates

Knox-class frigates

Leased to Greece from the USN after the Gulf War

Sail frigates

Steam frigates

Guided missile boats

La Combattante IIIb-class fast attack craft

La Combattante IIa-class fast attack craft

Tiger-class fast attack craft

Gunboats

Thetis-class gunboats

Formerly German Navy Class 420 or Thetis submarine hunters (U-Jagdboote).

Landing ships

Dock landing ships (LSD)

Landing craft (LCT)

Twelve WW II British landing craft (LCT) were transferred on loan to the Royal Hellenic Navy in 1945/1946. They were used for military transport and also for civilian transport due to the poor state of the railway system. Four were returned to the UK in 1953. The remaining were sold in 1963, with the exception of Kythira and Milos. [13]

Tank carriers (LST)

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LST HS Syros, L144

Eight former United States Navy LST Mark 2. [14]

Six former Royal Navy LST Mark 3. [17]

Two former United States Navy Terrebonne Parish-class tank landing ships.

Vehicle carriers (LSM-1)

Minehunters (Castagno class)

Minelayers

Minesweepers

Algerine Class (225-foot), transferred in 1948 [20]

BYMS Class (136-foot), transferred between 1943 and 1948

MMS Class (119-foot), transferred in 1946 [21]

MSC Class

Motor launches

Fifteen Fairmile B motor launches, transferred in 1945–47

Eight Admiralty harbour defence motor launches, transferred in 1945–47 [23]

Oil tankers

2 Patapsco-class tankers.

Others

Submarines

Balao-class submarines

Gato-class submarines

Glafkos class submarines (Type 209-1100)

Katsonis-class submarines

Built in France in 1925–1927.

Perla-class submarines

Pre–World War I submarines

Protefs-class submarines

Built in France in 1927–1930.

Tench-class submarines

U-class submarines

Under lease from the United Kingdom.

V-class submarines

Under lease from Britain.

Torpedo boats

Alkyoni-class torpedo boats

Antalya-class torpedo boats

Ottoman torpedo boats, scuttled in Preveza in 1912 during the First Balkan War, later salvaged by Greece.

Esperos class torpedo boats

Seven former German Navy Type 141 torpedo boats. Four Esperos class torpedo boats (Esperos, Kyklon, Lelaps, Typhon) were sold in public auction on May 18, 2009.

The remaining three boats of the class (P-6069 Albatros, P-6074 Bussard and P-6076 Sperber) were also transferred to the Hellenic Navy and used as sources for spare parts.

Kydonia-class torpedo boats

These ships were transferred to Greece from Austria-Hungary as war reparations for World War I.

Training ships

Tugboats

See also

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USS <i>Charrette</i> Fletcher-class destroyer

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Italian cruiser <i>Eugenio di Savoia</i> Italian and Greek naval vessel (1933–1965)

Eugenio di Savoia was a Condottieri-class light cruiser, which served in the Regia Marina during World War II. She survived the war but was given as a war reparation to the Hellenic Navy in 1950. Eugenio di Savoia was renamed Elli and served until 1965.

<i>Thetis</i>-class gunboat Class of Hellenic Navy corvettes

The Thetis-class gunboats was a class of five naval ships of the Hellenic Navy, originally developed for the German Navy as Class 420 and first commissioned in 1961.

BYMS-class minesweeper

The BYMS class was a class of wooden motor minesweepers, part of the United States Navy YMS-1 class minesweepers. One hundred fifty ships destined for the United Kingdom were launched from 1941 to 1943.

<i>YMS-1</i>-class minesweeper

The YMS-1 class of auxiliary motor minesweepers was established with the laying down of YMS-1 on 4 March 1941. Some were later transferred to the United Kingdom as part of the World War II Lend-Lease pact between the two nations. One ship eventually made its way into the Royal Canadian Navy postwar.

HMS <i>BYMS-2203</i> Minesweeper of the Royal Navy

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Greek destroyer <i>Leon</i> (D54)

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HMS <i>Peony</i> (K40) Flower-class corvette

HMS Peony was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. In 1943 she was transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy as RHNS Sachtouris, serving throughout World War II and the Greek Civil War. She was returned to the Royal Navy in 1951 and scrapped in April 1952.

Greek frigate <i>Hydra</i> Greek naval ship, launched 1991

Hydra (F-452) is the lead ship of the Greek Hydra-class frigate and flagship of the Hellenic Navy. The ship was built in the same shipyard as the Blohm + Voss MEKO 200 frigate class, on which its design was based. Three more vessels were built by Hellenic Shipyards Co. at Skaramagas in following years. It is the fifth ship in the Hellenic Navy to bear the name Hydra.

USS <i>LSM-45</i>

USS LSM-45 was a LSM-1-class medium landing ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. The ship also served as Ypoploiarchos Grigoropoulos (L161) in the Hellenic Navy from 1958 to 1993. She was the last known surviving LSM in its original configuration. Her last location before scrapping was Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. LSM-45 was donated to the Museum of the Marine by the now defunct Amphibious Ship Museum under the understanding that it would be put on display at the museum, and was towed to North Carolina in 2004 from Omaha, Nebraska. The museum decided in 2007 that the ship would not be a part of the museum and tried looking for another home for the ship. In 2009, there were reports that the Museum was considering scrapping or sinking the ship as an artificial reef, and she was scrapped sometime between 2010 and 2014.

At least two ships of the Hellenic Navy have borne the name Kos, after the Greek island of Kos:

Greek frigate <i>Spetsai</i>

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Greek ship <i>Ermis</i> Hellenic Navy ship

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The Goulandris-class were a series of two coastal patrol boats built by the Neorion shipyard and donated to the Hellenic Navy in 1975 and 1977 respectively. They were 40-ton, 24-metre boats, powered by two 1350 hp diesel engines, and armed with a 20 mm gun.

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