Greek destroyer Ierax (1912)

	Destroyer Ierax
History
Greece
Name	Ierax (ΒΠ Ιέραξ)
Namesake	hawk
Ordered	1912
Builder	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Laid down	1911
Launched	15 March 1911
Commissioned	1912
Decommissioned	1946
Fate	Broken up
General characteristics
Class and type	Aetos-class destroyer
Displacement	880 tons standard
Length	89.4 m (293 ft)
Beam	8.3 m (27 ft)
Draft	3 m (9.8 ft)
Propulsion	5 × Foster Wheeler boilers (4 coal-fired and 1 oil-fired), replaced by Yarrow oil-fired boilers in 1925; 5 funnels; combined Parsons and Curtis steam turbines;
Speed	31 knots (57 km/h) maximum (32 knots (59 km/h) after 1925)
Complement	58
Armament	As completed:; 4 × 4 in (100 mm)/50 guns; 1 × 3 in (76 mm) anti-aircraft gun; 6 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes; 3 × electric search lights; 1925:; 76.2 mm gun removed; 37 mm anti-aircraft gun added; four-barrel 40 mm (1.6 in) gun added; 2 mortars added; Modified for laying 40 mines; 1942:; 3rd and 4th stern torpedo launchers removed; 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) anti-aircraft gun added; 1 × 20 mm Oerlikon gun added; A/S type 123A detection device added;

Ierax (Greek: ΒΠ Ιέραξ, "Hawk") was an Aetos-class destroyer which had been built for Argentina as Santa Fe. She served in the Hellenic Royal Navy from 1912 to 1946.

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