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RHS Aetos (D 01)

Destroyer of the Aetos class


Aetos as seen during the Second World War.

Photo courtesy of D. Kamakaris.

NavyThe Royal Hellenic Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassAetos 
PennantD 01 
Built byCammell Laird Shipyard (Birkenhead, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched2 Feb, 1911 
Commissioned19 Oct, 1912 
End service, 1946 
Loss position
 
HistoryEscaped to Alexandria in May 1941.
Assigned pennant number H 89 by the British.
Decommissioned in 1946. 

Noteable events involving Aetos include:

15 Jun, 1943
Aetos picks up 47 survivors from the British tanker Athelmonarch that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-97 north-west of Jaffa, Palestine in position 32º20'N, 34º39'E.


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