NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Melampus (ex-Chios)	H44, H75		Fairfield, Govan	1914	16.12.1914	6.1915	sold 9.1921
Medea (ex-Kriti)	H9C, H74		John Brown, Clydebank	4.1914	30.1.1915	6.1915	sold 5.1921
Melpomene (ex-Samos)	H09, H76, D50		Fairfield, Govan	1914	1.2.1915	8.1915	sold 5.1921
Medusa (ex-Lesvos)	H90		John Brown, Clydebank	4.1914	27.3.1915	7.1915	sunk 25.3.1916

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1007 - 1040
Displacement full, t	1200
Length, m	83.3
Breadth, m	8.15
Draught, m	2.59
No of shafts	3
Machinery	3 Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	25000
Max speed, kts	32
Fuel, t	oil 278
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	3 x 1 - 102/41 QF Mk VII, 2 x 2 - 533 TT
Complement	80

Standard scale images

Project history

Late in 1913 four destroyers had been ordered for the Greek Navy, and they were laid down early in 1914 as the Kriti and Lesvos (John Brown) and Chios and Samos (Fairfield). They were very similar to the Admiralty 'M' class, but had a raised fore funnel and carried the second 102mm gun between No 1 and No 2 funnels. Internally they differed in having the double boiler room next to the engine room, and the accommodation was different.

Modernizations

1916-1917, all survived: - 3 x 1 - 102/41; + 3 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk IV, 1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II

Naval service

Medusa 25.3.1916 while screening seaplane carrier Vindex was rammed by destroyer Laverock, she was taken under tow home but later abandoned and sank.