Greek_ship_Hydra
Greek ship Hydra
List of ships with the same or similar names
Five ships of the Hellenic Navy have borne the name Hydra or Ydra (Ύδρα), named after the island of Hydra, which played a major role in the Greek War of Independence:
- Hydra (1827–1831), a 26-gun sail corvette captured from the Egyptian fleet in 1827, destroyed in 1831 at Poros during a rebellion against Governor Ioannis Kapodistrias
- Hydra, a 433-ton steam gunboat built at the Black Wall Shipyard in England in 1891. It was armed with one fixed Krupp 270/30 gun and one small rapid-fire gun
- Hydra (1889–1918), a French-built ironclad warship
- Hydra (1932–1942), a Dardo-class destroyer
- Hydra (1992–today), a MEKO 200-type frigate, lead ship of the Hydra class frigate