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Greek destroyer Pindos

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Name
  
Bolebroke

Name
  
Pindos - ΒΠ Πίνδος

Commissioned
  
27 June 1942

Launched
  
5 November 1941

Builder
  
Swan Hunter

Laid down
  
3 April 1941

Namesake
  
Battle of Pindus

Decommissioned
  
1959

Length
  
85 m

Pindos (Greek: ΒΠ Πίνδος) was a Type III Hunt-class destroyer that was originally built for the British Royal Navy as HMS Bolebroke but never commissioned. Before her completion, she was transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy and commissioned on 27 June 1942 as Pindos in order to relieve heavy losses of ships sustained by the Royal Hellenic Navy during the German invasion of 1941. Pindos served in the Mediterranean Theatre throughout the Second World War. On 22 August 1943, along with HMS Easton, she sank the German U-boat U-458 off Pantelleria. Pindos served during the Greek Civil War, was returned to the Royal Navy in 1959 and broken up for scrap in Greece in 1960.

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Greek destroyer Pindos Wikipedia