HMS Boreas (H77)

Boreas at anchor
History
United Kingdom
Name	Boreas
Namesake	Boreas
Ordered	22 March 1929
Builder	Palmer's, Jarrow
Laid down	22 July 1929
Launched	11 June 1930
Completed	20 February 1931
Identification	Pennant number: H77[1]
Fate	Loaned to the Royal Hellenic Navy, 10 February 1944
Greece
Name	Salamis
Namesake	Salamis
Acquired	10 February 1944
Commissioned	25 March 1944
Decommissioned	9 October 1951
Fate	Returned to the Royal Navy, 9 October 1951 Sold for scrap, 15 April 1952
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	B-class destroyer
Displacement	1,360 long tons (1,380 t) (standard)
Length	323 ft (98.5 m) (o/a)
Beam	32 ft 3 in (9.8 m)
Draught	12 ft 3 in (3.7 m)
Installed power	3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers 34,000 shp (25,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
Speed	35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Range	4,800 nmi (8,900 km; 5,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	142 (wartime)
Sensors and processing systems	Type 119 ASDIC
Armament	4 × single 4.7 in (120 mm) guns 2 × single 2 pdr (40 mm) AA guns 2 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 20 × depth charges, 1 rail and 2 throwers

HMS Boreas was a B-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy around 1930. Initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet, she was transferred to the Home Fleet in 1936. She then patrolled Spanish waters, enforcing the arms blockade during the first year of the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939. She spent most of World War II on convoy escort duties in the English Channel and the North Atlantic, based at Dover, Gibraltar, and Freetown, Sierra Leone. Boreas also participated in Operation Husky and was later loaned to the Royal Hellenic Navy the next year after conversion into an escort destroyer. She was renamed Salamis and served in the Aegean for the rest of the war. Salamis became a training ship after the war until she was returned to Britain and scrapped in 1952.