Hellenic Navy — Destroyer class
Kountouriotis-class destroyer
Freccia class
The class in numbers
- 8 Completed
- 6 Lost
- 2 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- Hellenic Navy
- Built
- 1929–1933
- In commission
- 1931–1946
- Preceded by
- Navigatori-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- Folgore-class destroyer
- Operators
- Royal Hellenic Navy
- Builders
- Cantieri del Tirreno, Riva Trigoso
- Cantieri navali Odero, Sestri Ponente
- Subclasses
- Kountouriotis class
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,206 long tons (1,225 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,116 long tons (2,150 t)
- Length
- 96.15 m (315.5 ft)
- Speed
- 30 knots (55.6 km/h, 34.5 mph)
- Complement
- 185
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
- Armament
- 2 × twin 120 mm guns
- 2 × single 40 mm AA guns
- 2 × twin 13.2 mm machine guns
- 2 × triple 533 mm torpedo tubes
- 2 × depth charge throwers
- 54 mines
Roster
Holding 4 of the 8 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greek destroyer Hydra | 1932 | Sunk 1941 | |
| Greek destroyer Kountouriotis (1931) | 1931 | 1932 | Scrapped 1946 |
| Greek destroyer Psara | D-98 | 1933 | Sunk 1941 |
| Greek destroyer Spetsai | D-83 | 1933 | Disposed 1946 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Kountouriotis-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.