Greek battleship Salamis

Greek battleship Salamis

The Greek battleship Salamis ( _el. Σαλαμίς) was a dreadnought ordered for the Greek Navy from the AG Vulkan shipyard in Hamburg, Germany in 1912. She was named after the battle of Salamis. Construction stopped after the outbreak of World War I in 1914 (the hull was launched in November 1914). The armament for this ship was ordered from Bethlehem Steel in the United States and could not be delivered due to the British blockade of Germany. Bethlehem sold the guns to Britain and they were used for arming the Abercrombie class monitors. The hull of the ship remained intact after the war and became the subject of a protracted legal dispute. She was finally awarded to the builders and the hull was scrapped in 1932.

References

* Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906-1922


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