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Greek battleship Kilkis : ウィキペディア英語版 | Greek battleship Kilkis
''Kilkis'' (Greek: Θ/Κ Κιλκίς) was a 13,000 ton originally built by the US Navy in 1904–1908. As she was purchased by the Greek Navy in 1914, and renamed her ''Kilkis'', along with her sister , renamed . ''Kilkis'' was named for the Battle of Kilkis-Lahanas, a crucial engagement of the Second Balkan War. Armed with a main battery of four guns, ''Kilkis'' and her sister were the most powerful vessels in the Greek fleet. The ship saw limited action during World War I. Greece's pro-German monarch, Constantine I opted to remain neutral until October 1916, when pressure from the Triple Entente forced him to abdicate in favor of a pro-Entente government. For the remainder of the war, ''Kilkis'' operated solely as a harbor defense ship. In the immediately ensuing Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, ''Kilkis'' supported Greek landings in Turkey and participated in the final Greek sea-borne withdrawal in 1922. She remained in service into the early 1930s, when she was used for a training ship. During the German invasion of Greece in 1941, she and her sister were sunk in Salamis by German Ju 87 Stuka dive-bombers. The two ships were ultimately raised in the 1950s and broken up for scrap. ==Construction== (詳細はUnited States Navy on 1 January 1908 as .〔Gardiner, p. 144〕 She served in the US Navy until 1914, when she and her sister were sold on 30 June 1914,〔Gardiner & Gray, p. 384〕 for the sum of $12,535,276.58.〔Cassimatis, p. 4〕 The two ships were transferred to the Greek Navy in Newport News, Virginia the following month.〔Hore, p. 89〕 The ship was long overall and had a beam of and a draft of . She displaced as designed and up to at full combat load. The ship was powered by two-shaft vertical triple expansion engines and eight coal-fired Babcock & Wilcox boilers rated at and a top speed of . Lattice masts were installed in 1909. She had a crew of 744 officers and enlisted men.〔 The ship was armed with a main battery of four L/45 guns in two twin turrets, one on either end of the superstructure. Eight L/45 guns were mounted in four twin turrets, two on other side of the vessel amidships. The secondary battery was rounded out with eight L/45 guns mounted individually in casemates along the length of the hull. Close-range defense against torpedo boats was protected by a battery of twelve L/50 guns, six 3-pounder guns and two 1-pounder guns. The ship's armament system was completed by two torpedo tubes submerged in her hull.〔 ''Kilkis'' and ''Lemnos'' were the most powerful vessels in the Greek Navy.〔Paloczi-Horvath, p. 80〕
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