| As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships © for 1919 |
British Navy - Destroyers
3 Ex-Greek Destroyers |
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MEDEA
1 Clydebank: Medea (ex Kriti). 1007 tons.
2 Fairfield: Melpomene (ex Samos), Melampus (ex Chios). 1040 tons.
- Dimensions: 273.33 x 26.66 x 10.25 feet.
- Guns: 3-4 inch, 1-2 pdr. pom-pom. 1 M.G. Torpedo tubes: 4-21 inch in twin deck mountings. Also usual D.C.
- Machinery: Brown-Curtis turbines and Yarrow boilers. 3 screws. Designed H.P. 25,000 = 32 kts. Fuel: 276/225 tons.
- Complement, 80.
Notes: Ordered for Greek Navy, and taken over for British Navy, 1914, Medusa (ex Greek Lesvos) built by Clydebank, lost, during War.
| |
Begun. |
Launch. |
Comp |
| Medea |
8/4/14 |
30/1/15 |
5/15 |
| Melampus |
........ |
16/12/14 |
29/6/15 |
| Melpomene |
........ |
1/2/15 |
16/8/15 |
Source: As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships for 1919 - p 102
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