Unprotected Cruiser Build 1885-1892, service 1879-1931 The Nauarchos (or Navarchos) Miaoulis was an unprotected Greek masted cruiser ordered in France 1877, decommissioned in 1931. The Greek Ναύαρχος was a very old naval rank corresponding to Admiral, named for the admiral Andreas Miaoulis, leader of the Greek rebels fleet in the Greek War of Independence between … Read more
Coastal ironclads Build 1885-1892: RHN Hydra, Spetsai, Psara 1892-1929 Hydra, Spetsai and Psara were ordered as coast defence ironclads in 1885 under the cabinet of Charilaos Trikoupis in order to modernize an ageing navy which earlier armoured ships went back to the 1860s. The three vessels were built in France, and were quite peculiar, with … Read more
RHN Giorgios Averof (1910) Greece (1910) Rarely ships have been given the privilege of a very long career as a flagship of an entire navy, nor having such historical significance. RHN Giorgos Averof was probably the best example which can be found in naval history. Ordered in 1908 as a modified Italian Pisa-class armored cruiser, … Read more
USA/Greece – (1906) Kilkis, Lemnos The first Hellenic battleships – Before the Kilkis class, there was the Mississippi class. They were the last American pre-dreadnoughts, considered at the time somewhat hybrid ships, not monocaliber but with a powerful secondary artillery, and yet still slow pre-dreadnoughts. The Mississippi and Idaho had already a career in the … Read more
