Hellenic Navy — Destroyer
1912
Greek destroyer Ierax (1912)
Service
- as Ierax (ΒΠ Ιέραξ)1912 — 19462,193 days of the war
Aetos-class destroyer
Particulars
- Name
- Ierax
- Pennant / hull number
- 1912
- Namesake
- hawk
- Builder
- Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
- Ordered
- 1912
- Laid down
- 1911
- Launched
- 15 March 1911
- Commissioned
- 1912
- Decommissioned
- 1946
- Fate
- Broken up
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 880 long tons (894 t)
- Length
- 89.4 m (293.3 ft)
- Beam
- 8.3 m (27.2 ft)
- Draught
- 3 m (9.8 ft)
- Speed
- 31 knots (57.4 km/h, 35.7 mph)
- Complement
- 58
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
Ierax was a Aetos-class destroyer built for the Hellenic Navy. She carried the pennant number 1912. The ship was named after hawk. Cammell Laird, Birkenhead laid her keel in 1911. Launched on 15 March 1911, she entered service in 1912.
Four ships of the class were built.
Displacement was 880 long tons. She measured 89.4 m (293 ft) long with a beam of 8.3 m (27 ft). Her designed speed was 31 knots, and she carried a complement of 58.
Her main battery was four 102 mm (4 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1946.
She was broken up for scrap.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 5 × Foster Wheeler boilers (4 coal-fired and 1 oil-fired), replaced by Yarrow oil-fired boilers in 1925
- 5 funnels
- combined Parsons and Curtis steam turbines
- Armament
- As completed:
- 4 × 4 in/50 guns
- 1 × 3 in anti-aircraft gun
- 6 × 21 in torpedo tubes
- 3 × electric search lights
- 1925:
- 76.2 mm gun removed
- 37 mm anti-aircraft gun added
- four-barrel 40 mm gun added
- 2 mortars added
- Modified for laying 40 mines
- 1942:
- 3rd and 4th stern torpedo launchers removed
- 1 × 3 in anti-aircraft gun added
- 1 × 20 mm Oerlikon gun added
- A/S type 123A detection device added
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Greek destroyer Ierax (1912) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — File:IERAX-1912.JPG — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons