Georgios Averof

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Georgios Averof is a cruiser built for the Italian navy and sold to the Greek navy during construction. She was laid down in 1907 and launched in 1910 and was commissioned in 1911. She was part of a plan to modernise the Greek navy and replace its older ships, and was named after the Greek tycoon who helped finance it’s purchace for the Greek navy. The ship served in ww1, the Greko-Turkish war and later ww2, during the later the crew disobeyed orders to scuttle the ship when both the Germans and Italians had taken over Greece and instead ran off to continue the fight with the allies. After the war she was formally decomissioned in 1953 and later turned into a museum ship in 1984, and is located at the Palaio Faliro museum dock where one can visit her in this present day. She is also the last surviving armoured cruiser in the world