History | |
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Greece | |
Ordered | January 16, 1912 |
Laid down | March 19, 1914 |
Launched | November 19, 1914 |
Acquired | 1920 as war reparation from Austria-Hungary |
Commissioned | 1920 |
Decommissioned | April 24, 1941 |
Fate | Scuttled near Salamis Island during 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) |
Complement | 38 |
Armament | 2 × 66 mm (2.6 in) L/30, AA:2 machine guns, 4 × 450 mm torpedo tubes (2 × 2) |
The Greek torpedo boat Kyzikos (Greek: TA Κύζικος) served in the Royal Hellenic Navy from 1920–1941. Originally the ship was the Austro-Hungarian Fiume-class torpedo boat SMS Tb 98-M. She was named for the ancient Greek city of Kyzikos (today known as Belkis) 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 Kydonia and Kios, was transferred to Greece as a war reparation from the Central Powers in 1920.[1]