Greek destroyer Miaoulis (L91)

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History
Miaoulis - ΒΠ Μιαούλης (L91)
United Kingdom
Name	Modbury
Builder	Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. (Wallsend-on-Tyne)
Laid down	5 August 1941
Launched	13 April 1942
Greece
Name	Miaoulis - ΒΠ Μιαούλης
Namesake	Andreas Miaoulis
Commissioned	25 November 1942
Decommissioned	1959
Identification	Pennant number: L91
Fate	Returned to UK and sold for scrap in 1960
General characteristics
Class and type	Type III Hunt-class destroyer
Displacement	Full load 1,490 tons Standard 1,050 tons
Length	85.3 m (280 ft)
Beam	11.4 m (37 ft)
Draft	2.4 m (7 ft 10 in)
Propulsion	Boilers: 2 Admiralty 3 drum boilers, Engines: 2 shaft Parsons turbine, Shafts: 2 (twin screw ship), Power: 19,000 shp, (14.2 MW)
Speed	26-knot (48 km/h) maximum 20-knot (37 km/h) maximum operational
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

Miaoulis (Greek: ΒΠ Μιαούλης) was a Type III Hunt-class destroyer that was originally built for the British Royal Navy as HMS Modbury but never commissioned. Before her completion, she was transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy and commissioned on 25 November 1942 as Miaoulis in order to relieve heavy losses of ships sustained by the Royal Hellenic Navy during the German invasion of 1941. Miaoulis served in the Mediterranean Theatre throughout the Second World War. On 10 October 1943, during the Dodecanese Campaign, she saved the crew of the British destroyer HMS Panther. She served during the Greek Civil War, was returned to the Royal Navy in 1959 and broken up for scrap in 1960.^[1]

References

^ Raymond V B Blackman (ed.). Jane's Fighting Ships 1963-4. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. p. 112.

Publications

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.

External links

RHS Miaoulis (L 91) at UBoat.net

Hunt-class destroyers

Type I
Royal Navy	Atherstone Berkeley Blencathra Brocklesby Cattistock Cleveland Cotswold Cottesmore Eglinton Exmoor (L61) Fernie Garth Hambledon Holderness Liddesdale Mendip Meynell Pytchley Quantock Quorn Southdown Tynedale Whaddon
Republic of China Navy	Lin Fu (ex-Mendip)
Ecuadorian Navy	Presidente Alfaro (ex-Quantock) Presidente Velasco Ibarra (ex-Meynell)
Egyptian Navy	Mohamed Ali el-Kebir (1949) / Ibrahim el-Awal (1951) (ex-Mendip) Ibrahim el-Awal (1950) / Mohamed Ali el-Kebir (1951)/ Port Said (ex-Cottesmore)
Israeli Navy	Haifa (ex-Ibrahim el-Awal (1951))

Type II
Royal Navy	Avon Vale Badsworth Beaufort Bedale Bicester Blackmore Blankney Bramham Burton / Exmoor (L08) Calpe Chiddingfold Cowdray Croome Dulverton Eridge Farndale Grove Heythrop Hursley Hurworth Lamerton Lauderdale Ledbury Middleton Oakley (L72) Puckeridge Southwold Silverton Tetcott Tickham / Oakley (L98) Wheatland Wilton Zetland
Royal Danish Navy	Esbern Snare (ex-Blackmore) Rolf Krake (ex-Calpe) Valdemar Sejr (ex-Exmoor (L08))
German Navy	Gneisenau (ex-Oakley (L98))
Royal Hellenic Navy	Aigaion (ex-Lauderdale) Admiral Hastings (L52) (ex-Cowdray) Themistoklis (ex-Bramham) Kriti (ex-Hursley)
Indian Navy	Godavari (ex-Bedale) Gomati (ex-Lamerton) Ganga (ex-Chiddingfold)
Royal Norwegian Navy	Arendal (ex-Badsworth) Haugesund (ex-Beaufort) Tromsø (ex-Zetland)
Free Polish Navy	Krakowiak (ex-Silverton) Kujawiak (ex-Oakley (L72)) Ślązak (ex-Bedale)

Type III
Royal Navy	Airedale Albrighton Aldenham Belvoir Blean Bleasdale Bolebroke Border Catterick Derwent Easton Eggesford Eskdale Glaisdale Goathland Haldon Hatherleigh Haydon Holcombe Limbourne Melbreak Modbury Penylan Rockwood Stevenstone Talybont Tanatside Wensleydale
Free French Naval Forces	La Combattante (ex-Haldon)
German Navy	Raule (ex-Albrighton) Brommy (ex-Eggesford)
Royal Hellenic Navy	Adrias (L67) (ex-Border) Adrias (D06) (ex-Tanatside) Hastings (L81) (ex-Catterick) Kanaris (ex-Hatherleigh) Miaoulis (ex-Modbury) Pindos (ex-Bolebroke)
Royal Norwegian Navy	Eskdale Narvik (ex-Glaisdale)

Type IV
Royal Navy	Brecon Brissenden

Preceded by: N class
Followed by: L class

List of destroyer classes of the Royal Navy

Greece during World War II

1940–1941 Balkans Campaign

Greco-Italian War
(1940–1941)

Battles

Leaders

Greece	Ioannis Metaxas Alexandros Papagos Charalambos Katsimitros Konstantinos Davakis Markos Drakos and Ioannis Pitsikas Dimitrios Papadopoulos Georgios Kosmas
Italy	Benito Mussolini Galeazzo Ciano Sebastiano Visconti Prasca Ubaldo Soddu Ugo Cavallero Carlo Geloso

Units

Greece	8th Infantry Division Epirus Army Section Western Macedonia Army Section
Italy	9th Army 11th Army

German invasion
(April–May 1941)

Battles

Leaders

Greece	King George II Alexandros Papagos Konstantinos Bakopoulos Georgios Tsolakoglou
British Commonwealth	Henry Maitland Wilson Thomas Blamey Bernard Freyberg
Germany	Wilhelm List Sepp Dietrich Kurt Student

Units

Greece	Eastern Macedonia Army Section Central Macedonia Army Section Epirus Army Section
British Commonwealth	1st Armoured Brigade 2nd New Zealand Division 6th Australian Division
Germany	XVIII Army Corps XXXX Panzer Corps Luftflotte 4 1st Parachute Division 5th Mountain Division

Occupation and collaboration

Occupying
powers

Leaders and
commands

Germany	Günther Altenburg Hermann Neubacher Walter Schimana Alexander Löhr Army Group E Hellmuth Felmy LXVIII Army Corps Hubert Lanz XXII Mountain Corps Alexander Andrae, Bruno Bräuer and Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller Fortress Crete Max Merten
Italy	Angelico Carta Pellegrino Ghigi Piero Parini Carlo Geloso and Carlo Vecchiarelli 11th Army III Army Corps [it] VIII Army Corps XXVI Corps
Bulgaria	Ivan Markov [bg] Trifon Trifonov [bg] Asen Sirakov

Atrocities

Economic
exploitation

The Holocaust

Collaborationist
government

People	Georgios Tsolakoglou K. Logothetopoulos Ioannis Rallis Sotirios Gotzamanis Georgios Bakos Georgios Poulos Friedrich Schubert Nikolaos Bourantas George S. Mercouris Ioannis Plytzanopoulos Dionysios Papadongonas
Organizations	Security Battalions Hellenic Socialist Patriotic Organisation (ESPO) National Union of Greece (EEE) Greek National Socialist Party
Secessionists	Roman Legion Alcibiades Diamandi Nicolaos Matussis Vassilis Rapotikas Ohrana Andon Kalchev Cham collaboration Këshilla Xhemil Dino
Atrocities	Paramythia Executions of Kokkinia

Resistance and Free Greece

National Liberation
Front (EAM)

People	Aris Velouchiotis Stefanos Sarafis Andreas Tzimas Georgios Siantos Alexandros Svolos Ilias Tsirimokos Markos Vafeiadis Evripidis Bakirtzis
Organizations	Communist Party of Greece (KKE) Socialist Party of Greece (SKE) Union of People's Democracy (ELD) Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) Greek People's Liberation Navy (ELAN) Political Committee of National Liberation (PEEA) and National Council United Panhellenic Organization of Youth (EPON) National Solidarity (EA) Organization for the Protection of the People's Struggle (OPLA) Slavic-Macedonian National Liberation Front (SNOF) Anti-Fascist Committee for a Free Germany (AKFD)
Operations	Drama uprising Ryka Mikro Chorio Gorgopotamos Bridge Meritsa Protests against labour mobilization Fardykambos Porta Sarantaporos Kournovo Tunnel 1943 Athens protest Pinerolo disarmament Steiri Agorelitsa Killing of Franz Krech
Atrocities	Feneos executions 5/42 Regiment dissolution Meligalas Kilkis Red Terror (Greece)

Non-EAM resistance

People	Napoleon Zervas Georgios Kartalis Dimitrios Psarros Komninos Pyromaglou Antonis Fosteridis Kostas Perrikos Ilias Degiannis Vasileios Sachinis Lela Karagianni Konstantinos Ventiris Manolis Paterakis Petrakogiorgis Kimonas Zografakis
Organizations	National Republican Greek League (EDES) National Bands of Greek Guerrillas (EOEA) National and Social Liberation (EKKA) 5/42 Regiment Defenders of Northern Greece (YVE)/Panhellenic Liberation Organization (PAO) Panhellenic Union of Fighting Youths (PEAN) Prometheus II Apollo National Organization of Crete (ΕΟΚ) Hellenic Army (ES) Northern Epirus Liberation Front (MAVI) others...
Operations	ESPO bombing Gorgopotamos Bridge (Operation "Harling") Agia Kyriaki Milia Skala Paramythias Execution of Josef Salminger Xirovouni Trahili Menina Dodona
Atrocities	Expulsion of Cham Albanians

British Military Mission (SOE)

People	Eddie Myers Monty Woodhouse Patrick Leigh Fermor Bill Stanley Moss Themis Marinos George Psychoundakis Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz
Operations	Operation "Albumen" Gorgopotamos Bridge (Operation "Harling") Operation "Animals" Asopos Bridge (Operation "Washing") Kidnapping of Heinrich Kreipe Damasta sabotage

Greek government-in-exile

Greek government
in exile

Events/Battles	Mareth Line El Alamein Wadi Akarit Dodecanese April 1944 mutiny Rimini Symi Santorini
People	King George II Emmanouil Tsouderos Sofoklis Venizelos Panagiotis Kanellopoulos Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos Christodoulos Tsigantes Pafsanias Katsotas
Greek Armed Forces in the Middle East	3rd Mountain Brigade Sacred Band Vasilissa Olga Adrias Katsonis Papanikolis 13th Squadron 335th Squadron 336th Squadron

Liberation and road to the civil war

Prelude to Civil War

Events	National Bands Agreement Plaka agreement [el] Red Terror Lebanon Conference Caserta Agreement Operation "Manna" Percentages agreement Dekemvriana Treaty of Varkiza White Terror
People	Ronald Scobie Georgios Papandreou Archbishop Damaskinos Georgios Grivas Angelos Evert Nikos Zachariadis

Commemoration

Events	Ohi Day
Museums	Athens War Museum Holocaust Museum of Greece Kalavryta Massacre Museum Kalpaki War Museum Museum of the Battle of Crete and the National Resistance Thessaloniki War Museum
Popular culture	Aera! Aera! Aera! Captain Corelli's Mandolin film Ill Met by Moonlight film Ipolochagos Natassa Mediterraneo The 11th Day: Crete 1941 The Guns of Navarone film What Did You Do in the War, Thanasis?

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