History | |
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Greece | |
Ordered | January 16, 1912 |
Laid down | March 28, 1914 |
Launched | January 15, 1915 |
Acquired | 1920 as war reparation from Austria-Hungary |
Commissioned | 1920 |
Decommissioned | April 26, 1941 |
Fate | Sunk south of Peloponnesos during the German invasion of Greece |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 270 tons standard |
Length | 60.5 m (198 ft) |
Beam | 5.6 m (18 ft) |
Draft | 1.5 m (4.9 ft) |
Propulsion | 5,000 shp; 2 Yarrow boilers; 2 set Melms & Pfenniger turbines |
Speed | 31 knots (57 km/h) maximum (32 knots (59 km/h) after 1925) |
Armament | 2 × 66 mm (2.6 in) L/30, AA:2 machine guns, 4 × 450 mm torpedo tubes (2 × 2) |
The Greek torpedo boat Kydoniai (Greek: TA Κυδωνίαi) served in the Royal Hellenic Navy in 1920–1941. Originally the ship was the Austro-Hungarian Fiume-class torpedo boat SMS Tb 100-M. She was named for the ancient Greek city of Kydoniai (today known as Ayvalık) located in Anatolia; the city was part of the territory awarded to Greece for joining the side of the allied in the Treaty of Sèvres at the end of World War I.
The ship, along with two sister ships of Monfalcone-built torpedo boats Kios and Kyzikos was transferred to Greece as a war reparation from the Central Powers in 1920.[1]