Hellenic Navy — Destroyer
1912
Greek destroyer Leon (1912)
Service
- as Leon (ΒΠ Λέων)1912 — 15 May 1941622 days of the war
Aetos-class destroyer
Particulars
- Name
- Leon
- Pennant / hull number
- 1912
- Namesake
- lion
- Builder
- Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
- Ordered
- 1912
- Laid down
- 1911
- Launched
- 1 July 1911
- Commissioned
- 1912
- Decommissioned
- 15 May 1941
- Fate
- Sunk at Souda Bay, Crete 1941 (1941)
- Status
- Wreck
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)
Leon was a Aetos-class destroyer of the Hellenic Navy. She carried the pennant number 1912. She was named for lion. Her keel was laid at Cammell Laird, Birkenhead in 1911. She entered service in 1912, having been launched on 1 July 1911.
Her class ran to four ships.
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 622 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 15 May 1941.
She was sunk in 1941. The wreck survives.
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 Leon (1912) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — http://www.hellenicnavy.gr/leon12_41_en.asp — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons