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H . M . S . M O D B U R Y ( L 91 )
Type
III HUNT Class Escort Destroyer ordered from Swan Hunter at Newcastle on
23rd August
1940 and laid down on 5th August 1941 as Job Number J4297. She was allocated to the
Royal Hellenic Navy on 24th March 1942 and launched as HHMS MIAOULIS on 13th April
1942. Build completion date was 25th November 1942.
B a t t
l e H o n o u r s
No British Battle Honours were
awarded as
the ship served in an allied Navy
Ship Badge
None is included in the Official
List of Heraldic
Crests for RN warships as she
was never
in commission with the Royal
Navy.
D e t a i
l s o f
W a r S e r v i c e u n d e r
G r e e k
C o m m a n d
H . H . M . S . M I A O U L I S ( L 9 1 )
1 9 4 2
November Contractors trials
25th Build completion and commenced Acceptance
Trials.
December
11th Commissioned for service with 5th Destroyer based at
Alexandria.
On completion of trials and storing took passage
to Scapa Flow to
work-up with ships of the Home Fleet.
1 9 4 3
January Working-up for Operational service.
Nominated for escort of military convoy during
Atlantic passage.
22nd Joined escort for joint convoy KMS8 to Middle East and KMF8 to
the Mediterranean in Clyde.
23rd Deployed with HM Cutters BANFF and FISHGUARD, HM
Armed
Merchant Cruisers CANTON and CILICIA, HHMS
ADRIAS, HM
Destroyer QUADRANT, French Sloop SAVORGNAN DE
BRAZZA
and HM Destroyer RELENTLESS for escort of joint
convoy during its
passage in Atlantic.
30th Detached and returned to Londonderry.
February Nominated for escort of military convoy KMF9 to
Gibraltar.
(Note: During stay at Londonderry some personnel
were changed due
to ill-feeling between Greek and RN ratings. RN
ratings were
carried in the warships of allied nations to
assist with radio and
visual communications.)
10th Passage to Gibraltar as escort for KMF9.
22nd Detached at Gibraltar and carried out anti-submarine
exercises prior to
passage to join Flotilla in eastern
Mediterranean
March Joined 5th Destroyer Flotilla for convoy defence and
support of army
operations.
(Note: Other ships in Flotilla were HM
Destroyers ALDENHAM,
BEAUFORT, BELVOIR. CROOME, DERWENT, HAYDON,
DULVERTON, HOLCOMBE, HURSLEY, HURWORTH,
ROCKWOOD and TETCOTT, all HUNT Class.)
Deployed in eastern Mediterranean.
April Flotilla deployment in continuation
to (Note: During this period destroyers carried out
interception patrols
May to enforce a blockade of the Cape Bon area in order
to prevent
enemy forces attempting to leave the area after
the defeat of
the Afrika Korps in Tunisia Operation
RETRIBUTION.)
June Convoy defence and patrol in central Mediterranean.
Nominated for support of allied landings in
Sicily (Operation HUSKY)
July
10th Took part in allied invasion of Sicily as part of
Support Force East with
other allied ships including Greek destroyers
KANARIS, MIAOULIS,
THEMISTOCLES and SAKHTOURIS. (Operation HUSKY)
August Convoy defence and support of military operations in
Sicily and Italian
mainland in continuation.
(Note: During this period allied military forces
were being built up in
preparation for planned landings on mainland
which involved
provision of escorts for military convoys in
central and western
Mediterranean.)
September Flotilla duties in continuation.
(Note: Not included in Northern Attack Force
providing support for
landings at Salerno (Operation AVALANCHE.)
Transferred with Flotilla to Alexandria for
support of military operations
in Aegean..
(Note: Increase in naval activity was
anticipated in support of the planned
allied operations to occupy Dodecanese islands
in the Aegean Sea.
(Operation ACCOLADE – See IMPROVISE AND DARE by
J S
Guard, WAR IN THE AEGEAN by E. Walker and P
Smith and the
above references.)
October
1st Deployed with sister destroyers HMS ALDENHAM and
the Greek
THEMISTOCLES for interception patrol.
2nd Planned attack on convoy cancelled.
4th Passage to Limassol with HM Destroyers ALDENHAM and
ROCKWOOD .
6th Deployed with HMS ROCKWOOD for patrol north of
Rhodes.
7th Took part in attack on invasion craft with HM
Cruisers PENELOPE and SIRIUS.
9th Under air attacks during patrol in Aegean.
17th Took part in attack on invasion convoy with HM
Destroyer HURSLEY
during which an escort UJ2109 (Ex HMS WIDNES)
was sunk and a
transport TRAPANI badly damaged.
(Note: TRAPANI was sunk the next night by HM
Destroyers PENN
and JERVIS.)
18th Took part in bombardment of Kos.
20th Deployed to carry relief stores to Leros.
26th Carried out further supply deployed with stores to
Leros.
November Support of evacuation of personnel from Aegean islands.
11th Bombarded Kos and Rhodes.
On completion of evacuation resumed Flotilla
convoy defence duties
based at Alexandria.
December Flotilla duties in continuation.
1 9 4 4
January Deployed in eastern Mediterranean with Flotilla.
to
June
July Transferred to newly formed Greek Flotilla with
other RHN ships.
August Nominated for support of military operations to reoccupy
islands in
to eastern Mediterranean with ships of Greek
Flotilla.
September
October Deployed in support of allied re-occupation of
Greece (Operation
to MANNA) with Greek Flotilla.
December (Note: Details of this operation are available in Naval
and Military
Staff Histories (HMSO).)
1 9 4 5
January Deployed with Greek Flotilla in support of
re-occupation and for
to convoy defence.
May
June Resumed control by Greek naval authority after VE
Day.
P o s t W a r
N o t e s
HHMS
MIAOULIS remained in Greek service until 23rd September 1960 when she was returned
to the Royal Navy. The ship was placed on the Disposal List and sold for
breaking up in Greece on 19th July 1961.
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