Georgios Averof
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Georgios Averof

Cruiser · 1911

MUSEUM SHIPYou can visit her today — Palaio Faliro, Athens, Greece

Georgios Averof is a modified Pisa-class armoured cruiser built in Italy for the Royal Hellenic Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. The ship served as the Greek flagship during most of the first half of the century. Although popularly known in Greece as a battleship (θωρηκτό), she is in fact an armored cruiser, the only ship of this type still in existence.

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Foto: Wikimedia Commons — Cmfrangos, British Ministry of Information photo, DS 595-98, Verlag Gehr. Lempe Kiel. Serie 1238 (proste licence / javna domena)