Unknown stories of the past
some of you may have recognised the ship of this image to be HMS Medea, the tier 2 British destroyer, but how many knew its origins? Well HMS Medea ( firstly named HS Kriti ) was layed down at the John brown shipyards in 1914 originally as a greek ship and would be named HS Kriti.
the order concluded 4 ships of this class alongside with 2 other town class cruisers that would be named L. Katsonis and P. kountouriotis.
those ships were ordered to strengthen the greek fleet after the purchase of the German-built battleship Salamis and the french-built battleship King Constantine. both battleships were cancelled during construction due to the start of The Great War.
the rest of the ships though were actually made but they were seized by the British navy, the cruisers were renamed HMS Birkenhead and HMS Chester ( of which the main gun is in the imperial war museum in London today ) . the destroyers were renamed as HMS Medea, HMS Melpomene, HMS Medusa and HMS Melampus.
Now for those wondering about the story of the ship in-game, L. Katsonis, it has nothing to do with these ships, The ship you see in game was a project proposed in 1929 for the Hellenic navy after they requested shipyards around the world to design the perfect destroyer for the Aegean. The L Katsonis design was rejected after the Hellenic navy wanted something cheap so they could get more numbers. thats how the project got abandoned and the Greeks turned to Italy to buy the 4 improved dardo class destroyer named as Hydra, Spetse, Psara and Kountouriotis.