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Niki 1931

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Νίκη [Niki]			Vulcan, Stettin, Germany	1905	30.5.1906	1906	captured by France 12.1916 (Niki), returned 12.1918, receiving ship 4.1941, stricken 1945
Δόξα [Doxa]			Vulcan, Stettin, Germany	1905	18.7.1906	1906	captured by France 12.1916 (Doxa), returned 12.1918, sunk 27.6.1917
Ασπίς [Aspis]			Vulcan, Stettin, Germany	1905	3.4.1907	1907	captured by France 12.1916 (Aspis), returned 12.1918, receiving ship 4.1941, stricken 1945
Βέλος [Velos]			Vulcan, Stettin, Germany	1905	8.5.1907	1907	captured by France 12.1916 (Velos), returned 12.1918, discarded 1926

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	275
Displacement full, t	350
Length, m	67.0
Breadth, m	6.60
Draught, m	2.70
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 4 Marine boilers
Power, h. p.	6800
Max speed, kts	30
Fuel, t	coal 90
Endurance, nm(kts)	1200(15)
Armament	2 x 1 - 76/51 Hotchkiss, 4 x 1 - 57/59 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement	58

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Project history

A Niki class of 4 destroyers was ordered simultaneously with order on 4 destroyers of Thyella class for Yarrow. As a whole both classes were identical, but German-built ships differed by three-funneled outline profile and lower cost (1,250,000 francs for all four ships instead of 1,325,000). Speed of survived ships by 1940 did not exceed 25kts.

Modernizations

(1925-1927, Salamis), Aspis, Niki: - 2 x 1 - 76/51, 4 x 1 - 57/59; + 2 x 1 - 88/27 TK L/30 C/08, 1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII

Naval service

Doxa was sunk off Milos 27.6.1917 by German submarine UB47. Aspis and Niki in April, 1941 were disarmed and all the time of war were used as receiving ships. Both were broken up in 1945.