Greek destroyer Nea Genea

Nea Genea (ex-German V-6)
History
Greece
Name	Nea Genea
Ordered	1911
Laid down	1911
Launched	29 February 1912
Commissioned	1912
Decommissioned	1919
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type	V1-class destroyer
Displacement	570 tons standard
Length	70.20 m (230 ft 4 in)
Beam	7.60 m (24 ft 11 in)
Draft	3.10 m (10 ft 2 in)
Propulsion	AEG-Vulcan 4 coal burning, 2 funnels
Speed	32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) maximum
Armament	2 × 8.8 cm (3.5 in) SK L/30 guns 4 × 500 mm (20 in) torpedo tubes

Nea Genea (Greek: Α/Τ Νέα Γενεά, "New Generation") was a destroyer that served in the Royal Hellenic Navy from 1912–1919. She was originally the German destroyer V-6.

Service

The ship, along with one of her six sister ships of V-class destroyers, Keravnos, was ordered from Germany. They were purchased before entering service in the German Navy, from the German shipyard Vulcan AG in Stettin, when the Balkan Wars were underway.

Later, during World War I, Greece belatedly entered the war on the side of the Triple Entente and, due to Greece's neutrality the two ex-German V-class ships were seized by the Allies in October 1916, taken over by the French in November and served in the French Navy from 1917–18. By 1918, they were back on escort duty under Greek colors, mainly in the Aegean Sea.

Nea Genea was stricken in 1919 and scrapped in 1922.

See also

• History of the Hellenic Navy

External links

• Russian Naval Encyclopedia Archived 2007-02-22 at the Wayback Machine
• Greek Naval ships of World War I