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THYELLA destroyers (1906-1907)

Sfendoni 1910

Thyella 1933

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Θύελλα [Thyella]     Yarrow, Glasgow, UK 1905 1907 1907 captured by France 12.1916 (Thyella), returned 12.1918, sunk 21.4.1941
Ναυκρατούσα [Nafkratoussa]     Yarrow, Glasgow, UK 1905 1906 1906 captured by France 12.1916 (Nafkratoussa), returned 12.1918, wrecked 3.1921
Λόγχη [Lonchi]     Yarrow, Glasgow, UK 1905 7.7.1907 1907 captured by France 12.1916 (Lonchi), returned 12.1918, discarded 1926
Σφενδόνη [Sfendoni]     Yarrow, Glasgow, UK 1905 1907 1907 captured by France 12.1916 (Sfendoni), returned 12.1918, stricken 1945
  

Displacement normal, t

352

Displacement full, t

380

Length, m

67.1

Breadth, m

6.20

Draught, m

1.80

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 4 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

6000

Max speed, kts

30

Fuel, t

coal 88

Endurance, nm(kts) 1200(15)

Armament

2 x 1 - 76/51 Hotchkiss, 4 x 1 - 57/59 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

70

Project history: Typical destroyers of beginning of XX century. They were designed on the basis of Austro-Hungarian Hussar class destroyers, but with both TT in aft part and strengthened artillery. On trials they made 31.8-32.4kts.
   Speed of survived ships by 1940 did not exceed 25kts.

Modernizations: (1926-1928, Salamis), Thyella, Sfendoni: - 2 x 1 - 76/51, 4 x 1 - 57/59; + 2 x 1 - 88/327 TK L/30 C/08, 1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II

Naval service: Nafkratoussa was lost on stones at island Milos in March, 1921. Thyella was sunk 21.4.1941 by German aircraft near Piraeus. Sfendoni was BU right after war.

Thyella 1931

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