Limnos
Career
Ordered:	1914
Laid down:	May 12, 1904
Launched:	December 9, 1905
Commissioned:	July 22, 1914
Decommissioned:	April 23, 1941
Fate:	sunk during German invasion of Greece
Current position:	near Salamis
General Characteristics
Displacement:	Full load 14,095 tons, standard displacement 13,000 tons
Length:	382 ft
Beam:	77 ft
Draft:	24.7 ft
Speed:	Maximum Speed 17 kts. knots
Complement:	34 Officers 710 men
Armament:	four 12-inch guns, eight eight-inch guns, eight seven-inch guns, 12 three-inch guns, six three-pounders, two one-pounders, six .30-caliber machineguns, two 21-inch torpedo tubes
Powerplant:	10,000 horsepower, triple-expansion reciprocating engines, two propellers, 17 knot maximum speed
Armour:	9" Belt, 12" Turrets, 3" Decks, 9" Conning Tower

Limnos (sometimes Lemnos) (Greek: Θ/Κ Λήμνος) was a 13,000 ton Mississippi-class Greek battleship (θωρηκτό) named for a crucial naval battle of the First Balkan War. Laid down for the United States Navy in 1904, she served in that navy as the USS Idaho (BB-24) from 1908 until [[1914], when both Mississippi-class ships were purchased from the United States by Greece. Taken over at Newport News, Virginia, late in July of that year, the ship was seized by France along with the rest of the Greek Fleet in 1916 due to Greece's neutrality in World War I (see the National Schism). When the Greek Prime Minister, Eleftherios Venizelos was re-established as head of the entire country in June 1917 and Greece entered the war on the side of the Entente, France turned both battleships over to the Royal Hellenic Navy, where she served in World War I and in the 1919 Allied Crimean expedition in support of White Russian forces, along with Kilkis, Leon and Panther under the command of Rear Admiral G. Kakoulidis, RHN. During the Asia Minor Campaign, she was flagship to the Second Fleet, based in Smyrna, under Rear Admiral G. Kalamidas RHN, her mission being the surveillance of the Black Sea, Dardanelles and Asia Minor coasts. In 1926-28, she underwent boiler repairs. In 1932, her armament was removed and employed as a coastal battery on the island of Aegina. She was sunk in the Salamis channel by Stuka dive bombers on April 23, 1941, during the German invasion of Greece. Her wreck was salvaged for scrap in the 1950s. Image File history File links Naval_Jack_of_Greece. ... 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (133rd in leap years). ... 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... December 9 is the 343rd day (344th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... July 22 is the 203rd day (204th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 162 days remaining. ... 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ... This article is about the year. ... Salamis may refer to Salamis Island in the Saronic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, near Athens, Greece, where the Battle of Salamis was fought in 480 B.C.. Salamis, Cyprus, an ancient city on the east coast of Cyprus. ... The Mississippi-class battleships, USS Mississippi (BB-23) and USS Idaho (BB-24), served in the US Navy from 1908 to 1914. ... HMS Victory in 1884 Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built between the 15th and 20th centuries. ... The Battle of Lemnos (January 5-18, 1913) was a naval battle during the First Balkan War. ... // Combatants Ottoman Empire Balkan League: Bulgaria Montenegro Greece Serbia Commanders Nizam Pasha, Zekki Pasha, Esat Pasha, Abdullah Pasha, Ali Rizah Pasha Bulgaria: Vladimir Vazov, Vasil Kutinchev, Nikola Ivanov, Radko Dimitriev Serbia: Radomir Putnik, Petar Bojović, Stepa Stepanović Greece:Crown Prince Constantine, Panagiotis Danglis, Pavlos Kountouriotis Strength 350,000 men Bulgaria... USN redirects here. ... 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... USS Idaho (BB-24), a Mississippi-class battleship, was the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 43rd state. ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Official language(s) English Capital Richmond Largest city Virginia Beach Area  Ranked 35th  - Total 42,793 sq mi (110,862 km²)  - Width 200 miles (320 km)  - Length 430 miles (690 km)  - % water 7. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Combatants Allied Powers: France Italy Russia Serbia United Kingdom United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul von Hindenburg Reinhard... Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936), Greek statesman and diplomat. ... European military alliances in 1915. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... European military alliances in 1915. ... 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For other meanings of Smyrna, see Smyrna (disambiguation). ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... The Aegina town centre Aegina (Greek: Αίγινα (Egina)) is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, 31 miles (50 km) from Athens. ... Junkers Ju 87 Dive-Bombers The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka was the most famous Sturzkampfflugzeug (German dive bomber) in World War II, instantly recognisable by its inverted gull-wings and fixed undercarriage. ... April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ... This article is about the year. ... Combatants Germany, Italy, Bulgaria Greece, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand Commanders Wilhelm List, Maximilian von Weichs Alexander Papagos, Henry Maitland Wilson, Thomas Blamey Strength Germany: 680,000 men,[1] 1200 tanks, 700 aircraft, Italy: 529,000 men Greece: 350,000 men, British Commonwealth: 58,000 men Casualties Italy: 13,755...