Greek battleship Salamis

Illustration of Salamis had she been completed during World War I and taken over by the Imperial German Navy
History
Greece
Ordered:	1912
Laid down:	23 July 1913
Launched:	11 November 1914
Fate:	scrapped 1932
General characteristics
Displacement:	19,500 t (19,200 long tons; 21,500 short tons)
Length:	569 ft 11 in (173.71 m)
Beam:	81 ft (25 m)
Draft:	25 ft (7.6 m)
Propulsion:	18 Yarrow-type boilers AEG turbines 3 shafts 40,000 shp
Speed:	23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) maximum
Armament:	8 × 14-inch (356 mm) guns (4 × 2) 12 × 6-inch (152 mm) guns in casemates 12 × 75 mm (3.0 in) guns 5 × 500 mm (20 in) torpedo tubes
Armor:	Belt: 3.875–9.875 in (98.4–250.8 mm) Deck: 2.875 in (73.0 mm) Barbettes: 9.875 in (250.8 mm) Turrets: 9.875 in (250.8 mm)

Salamis (Greek: Σαλαμίς or Σαλαμινία) was a dreadnought battleship ordered for the Greek Navy from the AG Vulcan shipyard in Hamburg, Germany in 1912. She was ordered in response to Ottoman naval expansion begun in 1911. The ship was to have been 569 feet 11 inches (173.71 meters) long, armed with eight 14-inch (356 mm) guns, and have had a top speed of 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph). Salamis was named after the Greek naval victory over a Persian fleet at the battle of Salamis in 480 BC.

Work began on the keel on 23 July 1913, and the hull was launched on 11 November 1914. Construction stopped in December 1914, following the outbreak of World War I in August of that year. The German navy employed the unfinished ship as a floating barracks in Kiel. The armament for this ship was ordered from Bethlehem Steel in the United States and could not be delivered due to the British blockade of Germany. Bethlehem sold the guns to Britain instead and they were used to arm the four Abercrombie-class monitors. The hull of the ship remained intact after the war and became the subject of a protracted legal dispute. She was finally awarded to the builders and the hull was scrapped in 1932.

Salamis was 569 feet 11 inches (173.71 m) long at the waterline, and had a beam of 81 ft (25 m) and a draft of 25 ft (7.6 m). The ship was designed to displace 19,500 t (19,200 long tons; 21,500 short tons). Had the battleship been completed, she was to have been powered by three AEG turbines, each of which drove a propeller shaft. The turbines were supplied with steam by 18 Yarrow boilers. This would have provided Salamis with 40,000 shaft horsepower and a top speed of 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph).