Greek destroyer Lonchi
Lonchi - Α/Τ Λόγχη
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 Greece
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| Namesake: | Spear |
| Ordered: | 1905 |
| Builder: | Yarrow Shipbuilders, Cubitt Town, London |
| Laid down: | 1905 |
| Launched: | July 7, 1907 |
| Commissioned: | 1907 |
| Decommissioned: | 1926 |
| Fate: | broken up in 1931 |
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| Class and type: | Thyella class destroyer |
| Displacement: | Standard 350 tons |
| Length: | 67.1 m (220 ft) |
| Beam: | 6.2 m (20 ft) |
| Draft: | 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shafts, 6,000 hp |
| Speed: | 30-knot (56 km/h) maximum |
| Complement: | 70 |
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Lonchi (Greek: Α/Τ Λόγχη, "Spear") was a Thyella class destroyer that served in the Royal Hellenic Navy beginning in 1907. The ship, along with her three sister ships, was ordered from England in 1906 and was built in the Yarrow shipyard at Cubitt Town, London. Lonchi was 220 feet (67 m), displaced 352 metric tons (346 long tons; 388 short tons), and was armed with two 18 in (46 cm) torpedo tubes, two 76 mm (3.0 in) guns, and two 57 mm (2.2 in) guns.
Lonchi saw active service during the Balkan Wars, as part of the invasion fleet that seized several islands in the Aegean Sea in the first week of the war. For the remainder of the conflict, Lonchi participated in the naval blockade of the Dardanelles. During World War I, Greece belatedly entered the war on the side of the Triple Entente and, due to Greece's neutrality the four Thyella class ships were seized by the Allies in October 1916, taken over by the French in November and served in the French Navy 1917–1918. By 1918, they were back on escort duty under Greek colors, mainly in the Aegean Sea. Lonchi saw action in the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922). After the war, she was stricken in 1926 and broken up in 1931.
Lonchi was ordered from Yarrow shipyard at Cubitt Town, London in 1905, along with three sister ships, Thyella, Nafkratousa, and Sfendoni.Lonchi was launched on 10 July 1907. The ship was 220 feet (67 m) long and had a beam of 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m) and a draft of 6 ft (1.8 m). At normal displacement, Lonchi displaced 352 metric tons (346 long tons; 388 short tons), and at full combat load her displacement rose to 380 t (370 long tons; 420 short tons). The ship was powered by a pair of vertical triple expansion engines supplied with steam by four Yarrow water-tube coal-burning boilers. The power plant had a designed output of 6,000 indicated horsepower (4,500 kW) and a top speed of 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph), but on trials, the four ships averaged between 6,263 ihp (4,670 kW) and 6,524 ihp (4,865 kW) and speeds of 31.8 to 32.4 kn (58.9 to 60.0 km/h; 36.6 to 37.3 mph).
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