| KTravlos | 26 Apr 2017 7:39 a.m. PST |
Keep in mind that you will be able to visit the Averoff for two months, as it will be at Salamina for maintenance. Here is drone video footage of the moving of the ship. YouTube link With Respect
Konstantinos Travlos |
 ColCampbell  | 26 Apr 2017 8:05 a.m. PST |
Nice video, Konstantinos. She sure looks very neat and deadly. I'm glad the Greek Navy appears to be keeping her fit. Jim |
| vtsaogames | 26 Apr 2017 8:48 a.m. PST |
Very nice. She looks like a dreadnought, very much. |
| Tgerritsen | 26 Apr 2017 8:51 a.m. PST |
She's a beautiful old ship and looks to be very well maintained. |
| Wackmole9 | 26 Apr 2017 9:47 a.m. PST |
I got to see her in Greece several years ago and was amazed at how well she looked. |
| stecal | 26 Apr 2017 9:52 a.m. PST |
Visited the Averof 2 years ago. Still manned by Greek Naval personnel, perhaps reservists. |
 Yellow Admiral | 26 Apr 2017 10:47 a.m. PST |
Maybe she'll get some drybrushing while she's in drydock. Her paint job looks far too neat and uniform and bland. :-) - Ix |
| KTravlos | 26 Apr 2017 11:59 a.m. PST |
Yup, it still is conscripts. One of the cushy posts for military service. And I was wrong on the op. It is unable, not able. |
Wyatt the Odd  | 26 Apr 2017 1:17 p.m. PST |
The ship in the background, hull number 16, looks to be a Fletcher-class. Is it active or a museum as well? Wyatt |
| NCC1717 | 26 Apr 2017 1:35 p.m. PST |
D16 is the ex USS Charrette (DD-581):
link |
| Wyatt the Odd | 26 Apr 2017 1:39 p.m. PST |
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| Shagnasty | 26 Apr 2017 2:04 p.m. PST |
Many thanks! I always thought her one of the most attractive of armoured cruisers. |
| StarCruiser | 26 Apr 2017 6:21 p.m. PST |
One of the last Armored cruisers built and definitely one of the prettiest… |
| Grelber | 26 Apr 2017 8:55 p.m. PST |
Grand news, KTravlos! Several years ago, I had understood there were serious doubts about Greece being able to afford maintenance for her. Saw her from a distance but was not able to visit when I was in Athens. Grelber |
| Alan Lauder | 27 Apr 2017 1:35 a.m. PST |
Thanks Konstantinos, I kept hoping we'd see the engines fire up! YA:
"Maybe she'll get some drybrushing while she's in drydock. Her paint job looks far too neat and uniform and bland. :-)" Yep, know what you mean. But, in my limited experience mucking around on ships (), if we weren't scrubbing something, we'd be painting it! And the bleach – oh, the bleach! One skipper, if the air below decks didn't peel your eyeballs with the stench of bleach, the job wasn't done right ;) |
| KTravlos | 28 Apr 2017 9:50 a.m. PST |
The reports are that the Goulandri family of ship-owners are paying a big part of the maintenance. Some reports indicate that this might go as far as making it sea-worthy. Maybe my dream of seeing the Averoff pay visits to the Texas, Aurora, Mikasa, and Olympia will come true! The D16 is indeed the USS Charrette. In the Greek navy it was the Velos. It is a museum ship but not as well done as Averoff. It mainly focuses on the naval mutiny against the Greek military Junta of 1967-1973. |
