F-450 Elli

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Career
Elli
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:	October 10, 1981
Commissioned:	1982
Decommissioned:	(active)
Fate:	-
Current position:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	3, 360 tons tons
Length:	130.5 m
Beam:	14.6 m
Draft:	6.2 m
Speed:	30 kts knots
Complement:	198
Armament:	2xCompact 76mm/62, 2x Mk 15 Phalanx 20mm CIWS, 2x Mk141quadruple launchers for 8x Harpoon missile, Mk29 octuple launcher for 24x RIM-7M SAMs, ASW: 2x Mk32 twin 324mm TT for Mk46 torpedoes
Powerplant:	2 RR Olympus 56.800 HR, 2 RR Tyne 10
Armour:	none

The HS Elli (F-450) (Greek Φ/Γ Έλλη) is the lead ship of the Greek Elli frigate class and the third Hellenic Navy ship by that name. It is based on the Royal Netherlands Navy Kortenaer class and was built in a Dutch shipyard; however, unlike later members of its class in the Hellenic Navy, it was not originally in Dutch service, but was sold directly to Greece.

The Elli was built at the Koninklijka Maatschappij de Schelde in Vlissingen, Holland, along with the frigate Limnos as part of a commission for the two ships from the Greek government. Her maiden voyage was on October 10, 1981 under her first captain, Grigoris Demestihas. She arrived in Greece on November 15 of that year.

The Elli took part in the Persian Gulf War from 1990-91, enforcing the UN resolution on Iraq in the neighborhood of the Red Sea.