Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War

Hellenic Navy — Destroyer class

Aetos-class destroyer

Aetos

The class in numbers

  • 4 Completed
  • 1 Lost

Design and service

Type
Destroyer
Navy
Hellenic Navy
In commission
1912
Operators
Royal Hellenic Navy
Builders
  • Cammell Laird, Birkenhead

Class specifications

Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.

As built
Displacement, standard
980 long tons (996 t)
Displacement, full load
1,175 long tons (1,194 t)
Length
89.3 m (293 ft) OA
Speed
32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
Complement
90
Main gun
102 mm (4 in)
Armament
  • 4 × single 4 in/50 guns
  • 4 × single 21 in torpedo tubes

Roster

Vessel Pennant Commissioned Fate
Greek destroyer Aetos (1912) 1912 1912 Scrapped
Greek destroyer Ierax (1912) 1912 1912 Scrapped
Greek destroyer Leon (1912) 1912 1912 Sunk 1941
Greek destroyer Panthir (1912) 1912 1912 Scrapped

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