Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "The Drydock - Episode 125" video.

  1. In the battles of Elli and Lemnos, Averof did most of the work, inflicting gun damage on several Ottoman ships, but sinking nothing. The newly purchased Aetos class destroyers had 21" torpedo tubes, unique in the Greek fleet, and the Greeks had not bought any torpedoes for them. However, Greece had the eight Thyella and Niki class destroyers, each of which mounted a pair of torpedo tubes. Newspaper reports at the time say the older Greek destroyers, the ones that should have had torpedoes, stayed at Lemnos, rather than come out with the rest of the fleet and participate in the battle. Why didn't the Nikis and Thyellas come out with the rest of the fleet and torpedo the ex-German pre-dreadnoughts when they were exposed, and sink them, so they would not need to be dealt with again? And thanks for addressing my question about battleship construction sequence.
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