Thyella-class destroyer

The Thyella class was a group of four destroyers ordered from Britain in 1905 for the Royal Hellenic Navy, after Greece lost the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 and began a naval build-up. Lonchi, Nafkratousa, Sfendoni and Thyella were among the last vessels built at Yarrow's shipyard at Cubitt Town, in London, before the firm moved to the Clyde. Navypedia says the design was based on the Austro-Hungarian Hussar class destroyers, but with both torpedo tubes in the after part of the ship and stronger artillery. Machinery was two vertical triple expansion engines with four Yarrow boilers, burning coal, giving 6,000 horsepower and a contract speed of 30 knots, and on trials the ships made between 31.8 and 32.4 knots. All four were captured by France in December 1916 and returned in December 1918.