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Greek destroyer Adrias (L67)
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Adrias (Greek: ΒΠ Αδρίας) was a Type III Hunt-class destroyer that was originally built for the Royal Navy as HMS Border but never commissioned. Before her completion, she was loaned to the Royal Hellenic Navy on 20 July 1942 and commissioned as Adrias on 5 August 1942 in order to relieve heavy losses of ships sustained by the Royal Hellenic Navy during the German invasion of 1941 and throughout the war.[1] Adrias took her name from the ancient Greek town of Adria in Italy, at the mouth of the Po river, after which the Adriatic Sea is named (Herodotus vi. 127, vii. 20, ix. 92; Euripides, Hippolytus, 736).
![]() Adrias on the River Tyne, 31 July 1942. Shortly after she was taken over by the Hellenic Navy | |
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Name | Border |
Namesake | Border Hunt |
Builder | Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom |
Laid down | 1 May 1941 |
Launched | 3 February 1942 |
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Name | Adrias - ΒΠ Αδρίας |
Namesake | Adria/Adriatic Sea |
Acquired | 20 July 1942 |
Commissioned | 5 August 1942 |
Decommissioned | 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: L67 |
Fate | Returned to UK and sold for scrap |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Type III Hunt-class destroyer |
Displacement |
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Length | 85.3 m (280 ft) |
Beam | 11.4 m (37 ft) |
Draft | 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in) |
Propulsion | Boilers: 2 Admiralty three-drum boilers, Engines: 2 shaft Parsons turbine, Shafts: 2 (twin screw ship), Power: 19,000 shp, (14.2 MW) |
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Range | 2,350 nautical miles (4,350 km) at 20.0 knots (37 km/h) |
Complement | 170 |
Armament | 4 × 4-inch (102 mm) (2 × 2) guns, one 4 × 40 mm A/A QF 2-pounder pompom gun, 3 × 20 mm A/A, 2 × 21-inch (533 mm) T/T, one depth charge track |
Command of Adrias was accepted by Cmdr. Ioannis Toumbas in Newcastle, England, on 20 July 1942. Upon completion of the training period on 26 August, while sailing under foggy conditions with only the left engine functioning, she ran aground near Scapa Flow. The damage took four months to repair. No responsibility was attributed to the captain for the accident. In the beginning of January, 1943, after the completion of repairs, Adrias sailed to the Mediterranean where she participated in missions escorting convoys.