Medea-class destroyer

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The Medea class were a class of destroyers that were being built for the Greek Navy at the outbreak of World War I but were taken over and completed for the Royal Navy for wartime service. All were named after characters from Greek mythology as result of their Greek heritage.

The Medeas were a private design roughly similar to their various Royal Navy M-class contemporaries. They had three funnels, the foremost of which was taller, and unusually, the mainmast was taller than the foremast, giving rise to a distinctive appearance. They shipped three single QF 4 inch guns, one on the forecastle, one between the first two funnels and the third on the quarterdeck.

Ships

Name	Ship Builder	Laid down	Launched	Completed	Fate
Template:HMS (ex-Kriti)	John Brown & Company, Clydebank	8 April 1914	30 January 1915	May 1915	Sold for breaking up 9 May 1921.
Template:HMS (ex-Lesbos)	John Brown, Clydebank	1914	27 March 1915	1915	Rammed and sunk by Template:HMS off of Schleswig 25 March 1916.
Template:HMS (ex-Chios)	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan	1914	16 December 1914	29 June 1915	Sold for breaking up 22 September 1921.
Template:HMS (ex-Samos)	Fairfields, Govan	1914	1 February 1915	16 August 1915,	Sold for breaking up 9 May 1921.

Bibliography

• Destroyers of the Royal Navy, 1893-1981, Maurice Cocker, 1983, Ian Allan Template:ISBN
• Jane's Fighting Ships, 1919, Jane's Publishing