HMS Echo (H23)

HMS Echo
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Echo
Namesake	Echo
Ordered	1 November 1932
Builder	William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton
Cost	£247,009
Laid down	20 March 1933
Launched	16 February 1934
Completed	22 October 1934
Identification	Pennant number: H23
Motto	Marte et Arte ("Strength and Skill")
Honours and awards	Atlantic 1939 Norway 1940 Bismarck Action 1941 Arctic 1941–43 Malta Convoys 1942 Sicily 1943 Salerno 1943 Aegean 1943
Fate	Transferred to Greece, 5 April 1944
Badge	On a Field Party per pale Green and Blue, two horns counterchanged Gold and Silver.
Greece
Name	Navarinon (Greek: Ναυαρίνον)
Acquired	5 April 1944
Fate	Returned to the Royal Navy, 8 March 1956, and sold for scrapping.
General characteristics
Class and type	E-class destroyer
Displacement	1,405 long tons (1,428 t) (standard) 1,940 long tons (1,970 t) (deep load)
Length	329 ft (100.3 m) o/a
Beam	33 ft 3 in (10.13 m)
Draught	12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) (deep)
Installed power	36,000 shp (26,800 kW) 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Propulsion	2 × shafts; 2 × Parsons geared steam turbines
Speed	35.5 knots (65.7 km/h; 40.9 mph)
Range	6,350 nmi (11,760 km; 7,310 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	145
Sensors and processing systems	ASDIC
Armament	4 × single QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk IX guns 2 × quadruple 0.5-inch (12.7 mm) machine guns 2 × quadruple 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 20 × depth charges, 1 rack and 2 throwers

HMS Echo was an E-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the Atlantic, Arctic and Mediterranean theatres during World War II, before being transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy in 1944, and renamed Navarinon, until scrapped in 1956.^[1]