Greek battleship Salamis

History
Greece
Ordered	1912
Launched	November 1914
Fate	scrapped 1932
General characteristics
Displacement	19,500 tons
Length	173.7 m (570 ft)
Beam	24.7 m (81 ft)
Draft	7.6 m (25 ft)
Propulsion	18 Yarrow-type boilers AEG turbines 3 shafts 40,000 shp
Speed	23 knots (43 km/h) maximum
Complement	1000?
Armament	8 × 14-inch (356 mm) guns (4 × 2) 12 × 6-inch (152 mm) guns in casemates 12 × 75 mm guns 5 × 500 mm torpedo tubes
Armor	Belt: 100-250 mm Deck: 75 mm Barbettes: 250 mm Turrets: 250 mm

Salamis (Template:Lang-el) was a dreadnought battleship ordered for the Greek Navy from the AG Vulcan shipyard in Hamburg, Germany in 1912. She was named after the Greek naval victory over a Persian fleet at the battle of Salamis in 480 BC. Construction stopped after the outbreak of World War I in 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

• Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal, eds. (1984). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906–1922. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0870219073.