List of Cruisers - Greece

Greece

  • Amalia (1861) - Renamed Hellas 1862, BU 1906
  • Navarchos Miaoulis (1879) - Sold 1931
  • Elli (1912, purchased 1914) - Torpedoed by Italian submarine 1940
  • Georgios Averof (1910) - Italian Pisa class, preserved at Faliro as museum
  • Elli II (1935, ex-Italian Eugenio di Savoia, obtained in 1951 as war reparations) - Stricken 1964

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