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Thyella 1931

Ships

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

Technical data

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

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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.