Vasilissa Olga
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The
destroyer D 15 was built in 1938 in Glasgow for the
Royal Hellenic Navy. She commissioned in February 1939
and named Vasilissa
Olga. She participated in operations against
the Italians in early 1941, and when Germany invaded
Greece in April 1941 under Operation Marita, she took
part in the evacuation of Crete before she sailed to
Alexandria. Together with British forces she escorted
Allied convoys and after modifications in India she was
again ready for service in early 1942. Again she did
service as an escort, and took part in the Allied
invasion of Sicily in 1943. While she laid at anchor
outside the island of Leros 23. September 1943, she was
attacked by German JU88 bombers and sunk. 72 men of her
crew lost their lives in the sinking. The wreck rest
today on a depth of 20 to 32 meter in Lakki harbor.
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 Picture: BP Vasille Olga -ΒΠ Βασίλισσα Όλγα Courtesy of Oocities Last updated: September 2019 |
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