RHN Vasilefs Georgios (King George) The class was ordered to UK as an escort to a new light cruiser (which never ordered). Planned four but only two were built. Those ships were modified versions of the G class, were built for the Greek Royal Hellenic Navy (RHN) by Yarrow in the late 1930s. The ship...
Fourth version, RHNS Antinavarchos Kountouriotis (Vice Admiral Kountouriotis) 1942-1946 RHNS Antinavarchos Kountouriotis & RHNS Spetsai survived German invasion and fled to Alexandria where united with Royal Navy. They were sent to India at the end of 1941 for modernisation. ASW detection devises an...
So let's start, I decided to fix 4 versions of the ships. -First version the leading ship RHNS Hydra as it was through 1933-39. -Second version RHNS Psara through 1933-39 loaded with mines. -Third version RHNS Spetsai as it was through 1939-41 when all Greek ships painted with camo ( I have the patt...
As I was checking various photos the ships look to have plenty of differences between each other. Some of them lack the third 40mm pom-pom aft of the funnel. At least one photo saw that at the position of the third pom-pom was a double MG (or it looks like that due to the sun glare). I haven't seen ...
I will outline all guns and correct the portholes.
Colombamike: I have plenty of pics of the class but not such detailed plans! Thanks!...work in progress!