"Aktion" ( Greek "Άκτιον" ) is a Greek gunboat . Built at the shipyard in the city of in 1881. Belonged to the class of small flat-bottomed gunboats, known as the “Rendel gunboats” . This gunboat, like the one of the same type, “ Amvrakia ”, had one single purpose: military operations in the then bordering with the Ottoman Empire , shallow water bay of Amvrakikos , in the event of a war for the liberation of Epirus , which has been part of the plans of the Greek kingdom from the moment of its formation.
| Aktion | |
|---|---|
| Greek Άκτιον | |
 Aktion in 1896 | |
| Service | |
 Greece | |
| Class and type of vessel | Gunboat |
| Manufacturer | , , UK |
| Ordered to build | 1881 year |
| Withdrawn from the fleet | 1919 year |
| Status | sold for scrap |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 433 t |
| Length | 38.5 m |
| Width | 7.6 m |
| Draft | 2.9 meters |
| Engines | 2 PM |
| Power | 380 l. with. |
| Speed | 10 knots |
| Armament | |
| Artillery | 1 × 370 mm 1912: 3 × 76 mm |
| Flak | 1912: 1 × 15 mm |
| Mine torpedo armament | 1912: 2 torpedo tubes of 450 mm caliber [1] |
Initially, the gunboat received the name of one of the strongholds of the fleet of the Greek revolution of the island of Spetses , just as from the same considerations the second ship received the name of the island of Hydra . With the order of these 2 gunboats, ordered a year earlier in France and also intended for the Gulf of Amvrakikos, but much smaller, Alpha gunboats changed their names. In 1889, after the introduction of the eponymous battleship “Spets” and the battleship “Idra” into the fleet, the gunboat was in turn renamed “Aktion”, which, like the new name of the gunboat “Idra” renamed “Amvrakia” openly spoke about their purpose ( Aktium and Ambrakia - toponyms of the Gulf of Amvrakikos).
"Aktion" took part in the Greek-Turkish war of 1897 , under the command of Captain E. Tombazis, as part of the Western Ionian Flotilla. As part of the same flotilla and under the command of Captain E. Lampadarios, the gunboat took part in the Balkan wars of 1912-1913.
During the First World War, the gunboat was used as a mine layer in the waters around Piraeus . After the war, the gunboat was withdrawn from the fleet in 1919 [2] .
Heirs
- Aktion (auxiliary cruiser) , joined the fleet in 1919
- Aktion (mine layer) , joined the fleet in 1953
Notes
- ↑ Άκτιον. Τεχνικά Χαρακτηριστικά (Greek) . Η Ιστορία των Ελληηνικών Ενόπλων Δυνάμεων (2010). Date of treatment December 21, 2018.
- ↑ Άκτιον. Ιστορικά στοιχεία - Γενικές πληροφορίες (Greek) . Η Ιστορία των Ελληηνικών Ενόπλων Δυνάμεων (2010). Date of treatment December 21, 2018.