Greek destroyer Miaoulis

Miaoulis - ΒΠ Μιαούλης (L91)
History
United Kingdom
Name:	Modbury
Builder:	Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. (Wallsend-on-Tyne)
Laid down:	5 August 1941
Launched:	13 April 1942
Greece
Name:	Miaoulis - ΒΠ Μιαούλης
Namesake:	Andreas Miaoulis
Commissioned:	25 November 1942
Decommissioned:	1959
Identification:	pennant number: L91
Fate:	returned to UK and sold for scrap in 1960
General characteristics
Class and type:	Type III Hunt-class destroyer
Displacement:	Full load 1,490 tons Standard 1,050 tons
Length:	85.3 m (280 ft)
Beam:	11.4 m (37 ft)
Draft:	2.4 m (7 ft 10 in)
Propulsion:	Boilers: 2 Admiralty 3 drum boilers, Engines: 2 shaft Parsons turbine, Shafts: 2 (twin screw ship), Power: 19,000 shp, (14.2 MW)
Speed:	26-knot (48 km/h) maximum 20-knot (37 km/h) maximum operational
Range:	2,350 nautical miles (4,350 km) at 20.0 knots (37 km/h)
Complement:	170
Armament:	4 × 4-inch (102 mm) (2 × 2) guns, one 4 × 40 mm A/A QF 2-pounder pompom gun, 3 × 20 mm A/A, 2 × 21 inch (533 mm) T/T, one depth charge track

Miaoulis (Greek: ΒΠ Μιαούλης) was a Type III Hunt-class destroyer that was originally built for the British Royal Navy as HMS Modbury but never commissioned. Before her completion, she was transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy and commissioned on 25 November 1942 as Miaoulis in order to relieve heavy losses of ships sustained by the Royal Hellenic Navy during the German invasion of 1941. Miaoulis served in the Mediterranean Theatre throughout the Second World War. On 10 October 1943, during the Dodecanese Campaign, she saved the crew of the British destroyer HMS Panther. She served during the Greek Civil War, was returned to the Royal Navy in 1959 and broken up for scrap in 1960.^[1]

References

Publications

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475. 

External links

• RHS Miaoulis (L 91) at UBoat.net