Greek Battleship Salamis

In July 1912 the Greek Navy ordered a battleship to counter Ottoman expansion that had begun in 1911 with the ordering of, among other, Reshadieh later HMS Erin. It was designed for service in the Aegean with the following specifications:

Displacement: 13,500t
Dimensions: 458ft, 72ft, 24ft. 
Machinery: 2-shaft turbines, 26,000shp for 21 knots. 
Armour: 10" belt, 10" barbettes & 12" control tower
Armament: 6 x 14"/45 (3 x 2), 8 x 6"/50 (casemates), 8 x 3", 4 x 37mm AA & 2 x 450mm torpedo tubes. 

Caption: The early design. 

The ship was called Salamis, after the Greek naval victory over the Persians in 480 BC. However the Greeks enlarged the design to 16,500t, then the particulars below:

Displacement: 19,500t
Dimensions: 569ft 11" (waterline) by 81ft by 25ft
Machinery: 3-shaft AEG turbines, 18 Yarrow Boilers, 40,000 shp for 23 knots. 
Armour: 9.8"-3.9" belt, 3.1"-1.6" deck, 9.8" barbettes, 9.8" turrets & 11.8" control tower. 
Armament. 8 x 14"/45 (4 x 2), 12 x 6"/50 (casemates), 12 x 3", 5 x 500mm TT.

for the cost of £1,693,000 for a delivery date of March 1915.

Caption: The final design. 

However with the outbreak of hostilities in Europe, the company building the ship, AG Vulcan, stopped work on the 31st December 1914. One of the reasons for this was that the British blockade meant that the guns and armour from Bethlehem Steel of the United States couldn't be delivered (the guns were brought by the British and used on the Abercrombie class monitors). 

After the war the Greek government refused to accept the incomplete ship, which was intact despite the war. This led to a court case: the final verdict was that the Greeks must pay £30,000 (in addition to the £450,000 paid already) and that the ship remained the property of the builder. 

She was scrapped in Bremen in 1932. 

Caption: An artists impression of a completed Salamis in German service.