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Elli 1930

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Έλλη [Elli] (ex-飛鴻 [Fei Hung])			New York SB, Camden, USA	1910	4.5.1912	11/1913 // 14.5.1914	sunk 15.8.1940

Technical data

Data variant	as completed	as modernized 1929
Displacement standard, t	---	2115
Displacement normal, t	2600
Displacement full, t	2750	2750
Length, m	97.5 pp 98.1 oa	97.5 pp 98.1 oa
Breadth, m	11.9	11.9
Draught, m	4.26	4.26
No of shafts	3	3
Machinery	3 Parsons steam turbines, 3 Thornycroft watertube boilers	3 Parsons steam turbines, 3 Thornycroft watertube boilers
Power, h. p.	7500	7500
Max speed, kts	20	20.5
Fuel, t	coal 600 + oil 100	oil 600
Endurance, nm(kts)	4500(10)	7000(10)
Armour, mm	deck: 25 with 51mm slopes, CT: 50	deck: 51 with 51mm slopes, CT: 50
Armament	2 x 1 - 152/45 Armstrong Mk NN, 4 x 1 - 102/50 Armstrong P, 2 x 1 - 76/40 Armstrong N, 6 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 37/27 Maxim, 2 x 1 - 450 TT	3 x 1 - 152/50 Armstrong Mk WW, 2 x 1 - 76/40 Armstrong N, 2 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss AA, 2 x 1 - 450 TT, 110 mines
Complement	232	232

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Project history

Cruiser was built in the USA under Chinese order as Fei Hung and completed in November, 1913, but was not redeemed by customer and 14.5.1914 she was sold to Greece, being renamed Elli (in English-speaking sources often there is writing Helle).    On an original design she was close to British-built Chinese cruisers Chao Ho and Jing Swei, in particular, she had forecastle and poop, boilers with coal/oil combustion and mixed artillery. On trials she shown 20.3kts at 8640hp.    In 1925-1929 Elli passed repair and modernization with conversion to cruiser-minelayer.

Ship protection

Ship was protected by only main deck with slopes, covered machinery.

Modernizations

1917: + 1 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss

(1925-1929, F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France): the poop was sheared (aft 152mm gun was thus installed one deck lower), superstructures were completely reconstructed, funnels were moved, mine rails for 110 mines were fitted aft, all armament was changed. Boilers were converted on pure oil-firing, however by 1940 speed because of deterioration of machinery did not exceed 18kts. Thanks to the spared weight, the thickness of main protected deck was increased to 51mm. New data was as given in the table.

1930s: - 2 x 1 - 57/40; + 2 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II

Naval service

In 1916-1917 Elli served under French flag. Elli 15.8.1940 (before official declaration of war) was torpedoed and sunk by Italian submarine Delfino off island Tinos.