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RHS Aegion (L 06)

Escort destroyer of the Hunt (Type II) class

NavyThe Royal Hellenic Navy
TypeEscort destroyer
ClassHunt (Type II) 
PennantL 06 
Built byJohn Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) 
Ordered 
Laid down12 Feb, 1940 
Launched23 Oct, 1940 
Commissioned 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryHMS Avon Vale was allocated to the Royal Hellenic Navy as Aegion from March 1944 until May 1944. She was never commissioned into the R.H.N. due to the mutinous state of the Greek Navy.  
Former nameHMS Avon Vale

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