Hellenic Navy (others)

QSL card confirming a 21 MHz FT8 (Digital) contact with Special Event Station SZ1AB aboard Armoured Cruiser Georgios Averof in June 2024. The official ITU callsign of Averof was SZAB and it was adapted during this event to SZ1AB for compliance with the format of amateur radio callsigns. The photograph used for the QSL card was taken after the 1925-1925 refit.

Coat of Arms of the Hellenic Navy, by Sarah fides on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons file: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hellenic_Navy_Seal.svg

Official Hellenic Navy aerial photo, showing the naval radio station at Aggelochori (Thermaikos), near Thessaloniki. Published on the website of the Hellenic Navy. Original image: http://www.hellenicnavy.gr/el/organosi/aneksartites-ypiresies/stratigeio-dioikiseos-anatolikis-mesogeiou/organosi/kentro-ekpompis-aggeloxoriou-thessalonikis.html

Rare aerial view of the antenna of Hellenic Navy LF transmitter SXV in Marathon (Kato Souli), Greece. The antenna consists of a 250 m tall guyed lattice mast and an extensive ground radial system. In the background, part of the Olympic Rowing Course is visible. This rowing course was constructed in the exact location of the runway of the former Marathon Airfield for the 2004 Olympic Games. From Wikipedia: Kato Souli Naval Transmission Facility (Greek: Κέντρο Εκπομπής Κάτω Σουλίου) is a facility used by the Greek Navy for transmitting messages to submarines in the LF-range at Kato Souli near Marathon, Greece. It was commissioned in 1989 and uses as tallest antenna tower a 250-metre-tall guyed mast with umbrella antenna, the tallest structure in Greece. The site has an area of 650 acres. Nearby there was a transmission site of the US Navy with several shortwave transmitters.

The only known photograph in Greek service (c. 1992) of EW ship Hermes A373 SZBX of the Hellenic Navy (1988-2002). More information of the ship in German Service (Oker, A53) can be found here: http://www.manfred-bischoff.de/schiff.htm (The copyright claims on the photos may be invalid). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ερμής Α-373 (1988-2002). Πρώην γερμανικό OKER, πρώην HOHEWEG ΠΛΟΙΟ ΥΠΟΚΛΟΠΩΝ Διαστάσεις: 72,5 / 10,5 / 4,9 μέτρα Εκτόπισμα: 1.497 τον. Πρόωση: Diesel 1.800 bhp Ταχύτητα: 15 κόμβοι Αλιευτικό που ναυπηγήθηκε στη Γερμανία το 1960. Αγοράστηκε από το γερμανικό ναυτικό το 1972 και μετατράπηκε σε πλοίο υποκλοπών. Παραχωρήθηκε στο Πολεμικό Ναυτικό στο πλαίσιο της γερμανικής στρατιωτικής βοήθειας στις 12 Φεβρουαρίου 1988. Ανήκε στη Διοίκηση Αντιτορπιλικών μέχρι τις 12 Δεκεμβρίου του 2002 οπότε και παροπλίσθηκε.

HS Panther D67 at anchor in the Grand Harbour of Malta, 1978. Old photograph in my collection. Panther, formerly USS Thomas Garfield, was a Cannon class Destroyer Escort built in 1944. Served in the US Navy until 1951 when she was transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy. She was decommissioned in 1992. This visit to Malta most likely took place for the benefit of the cadet officers (=midshipmen) of the Hellenic Naval Academy .

RHS Hermes A324 depot ship sailing from Valetta Grand Harbour, Malta on July 11, 1962. (Own collection) Formerly a Portugese trawler, Port Jackson launched in April 1941, acquired by the Royal Navy as HMS Product (T188) in 1943. In 1946 commissioned as RHS Hermes (ΒΠ ΕΡΜΗΣ) in the Royal Hellenic Navy and was used mainly as a minesweeper support vessel until 1973.

Ships of the Royal Hellenic Navy in Volos port, Greece, in or after 1952: Destroyer RHS DOXA D20 (1951-1971) Three Cannon class Destroyers Escort: RHS LEON D54 (ex USS Eldridge DE-173) One of IERAX D31, PANTHR D67 RHS AETOS D01 (ex USS Slater DE-766) A familiar building in the photo is the brach office of the Bank of Greece, founded in 1933 and completed in 1935, currently a listed structure. Estimated date is summer of 1954. Most of the old-style buildings in the background were destroyed or damaged in the earthquake of April 1955 and afterwards they were rebuilt in different style. Anonymous photographer, photograph in my collection. Still under copyright protection until December 31, 2024, based on the 1954 dating.

Reproduction of old postcard of 1882, watercolour painting by B. Strassberger (*), showing some recently commissioned small naval ships of the Royal Hellenic Navy in 1882. SPETSAI , steam gun boat, Blackwall Shipyards, 1881 (renamed to AKTION ). HYDRA , steam gun boat, Blackwall Shipyards, 1881 (renamed to AMVRAKIA ) RHODOS , torpedo boat, Yarrow Shipyard 1882 (renamed to Torpedo Boat 10 ) KYPROS , torpedo boat, Yarrow Shipyard 1882 (renamed to Torpedo Boat 17 ) (*) Bruno Heinrich Straßberger , 1832–1910, German painter and illustrator.