HMS Boreas (H77)

HMS Boreas at anchor
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Boreas
Namesake:	Boreas
Ordered:	22 March 1929
Builder:	Palmer's, Jarrow
Cost:	£221,156
Laid down:	22 July 1929
Launched:	11 June 1930
Completed:	20 February 1931
Identification:	Pennant number: H77
Fate:	Loaned to the Royal Hellenic Navy, 11 February 1944
Greece
Name:	Salamis
Namesake:	Salamis
Acquired:	11 February 1944
Commissioned:	25 March 1944
Decommissioned:	10 May 1951
Fate:	Returned to the Royal Navy, 10 May 1951 Sold for scrap, 23 November 1951
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type:	B-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,360 long tons (1,380 t) (standard) 1,790 long tons (1,820 t) (deep load)
Length:	323 ft (98.5 m) o/a
Beam:	32 ft 3 in (9.8 m)
Draught:	12 ft 3 in (3.7 m)
Installed power:	34,000 shp (25,000 kW) 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Propulsion:	2 × shafts 2 × Parsons geared steam turbines
Speed:	35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Range:	4,800 nmi (8,900 km; 5,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement:	142 (wartime)
Sensors and processing systems:	Type 119 ASDIC
Armament:	4 × 1 - 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk IX guns 2 × 1 - QF 2-pounder (40 mm) Mk II AA guns 2 × 4 - 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 20 × depth charges, 1 rail and 2 throwers

HMS Boreas was a B-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy around 1930. Initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet, she was transferred to the Home Fleet in 1936. The ship then patrolled Spanish waters enforcing the arms blockade during the first year of the Spanish Civil War of 1936–39. She spent most of World War II on convoy escort duties in the English Channel and the North Atlantic, based at Dover, Gibraltar, and Freetown, Sierra Leone. Boreas also served two brief tours with the Mediterranean Fleet and participated in Operation Husky, the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. She was loaned to the Royal Hellenic Navy the next year after conversion into an escort destroyer. She was renamed Salamis and served in the Aegean for the rest of the war. Salamis became a training ship after the war until she was returned to Britain and scrapped in 1951.

Boreas displaced 1,360 long tons (1,380 t) at standard load and 1,790 long tons (1,820 t) at deep load. The ship had an overall length of 323 feet (98.5 m), a beam of 32 feet 3 inches (9.8 m) and a draught of 12 feet 3 inches (3.7 m). She was powered by Parsons geared steam turbines, driving two shafts, which developed a total of 34,000 shaft horsepower (25,000 kW) and gave a maximum speed of 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph). Steam for the turbines was provided by three Admiralty 3-drum boilers. Boreas carried a maximum of 390 long tons (400 t) of fuel oil that gave her a range of 4,800 nautical miles (8,900 km; 5,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph). The ship's complement was 134 officers and enlisted men, although it increased to 142 during wartime.

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