Karteria (ship, 1825)

**Karteria**
	Steamship Karteria
Ship data
flag	Greece
other ship names	Perseverance
Ship type	Sloop
Shipyard	Greenland South Dockyard, Rotherhithe, London
Keel laying	1825
Commissioning	1826
Decommissioning	Burned 13th August 1831
Ship dimensions and crew
length	38.4 m ( Lüa )
width	7.6 m
displacement	233 tn.l.
crew	185 men (17 officers, 22 NCOs, 32 gunners , 110 seamen, 4 cooks / cabin boys)
Machine system
machine	2 × steam engine
Machine ; performance	85 hp (63 kW)
Top ; speed	7 kn (13 km / h)
propeller	2 paddle wheels
Rigging and rigging
Rigging	More beautiful
Number of masts	4th
Armament
	4 × 68 pounder;

The Karteria ( Greek Καρτερία ( f. Pl. ) = Endurance ) was the first steam-powered ship that was involved in combat operations. It was built in 1825 in an English shipyard for the Greek Navy for use in the Greek struggle for freedom. The captain of the Karteria was the British naval officer Frank Abney Hastings .

It was built by Daniel Brent at the Greenland South Dockyard, Rotherhithe, London. It was the first of six ships owned by Thomas Cochrane , Commander in Chief of the Greek Navy, to be completed.

The 400-ton ship was classified as a sloop and the paddle wheels were powered by two small steam engines. The ship had four masts and could also sail. It was armed with four 68-pounders, the projectiles being heated to red embers with an oven and used as incendiary projectiles . In 1827 alone, the ship delivered 18,000 volleys.

The ship entered service in Greece in 1826 and was the first steam warship to take part in combat operations. Under the command of Frank Abney Hastings, the Karteria soon achieved terrifying fame. For example, the attack on the port of Itea near Salona in the Gulf of Corinth on 29/30 was a successful operation . September 1827, where she sank nine Ottoman ships.

The Karteria was burned on August 13, 1831 at the instigation of Admiral Andreas Miaoulis when he refused to hand over the Greek fleet to the Russian Admiral Peter Iwanowich Rikord.

Web links

(1820-1840) Paddle Steamer Karteria. on greek-war-equipment.blogspot.co A History of Military Equipment of Modern Greece (1821 – today) , accessed on September 24, 2013, (English).

Footnotes

↑ Lawren Sondhaus: warfare Naval, 1815-1914. Routledge, London, New York 2001, p. 20. “The first steam warship was the American USS Demologos , but it was never used in combat. The British HMS Lightning was the first steam warship that was used in combat operations, but only acted as a tug itself . "
^ William St. Clair: That Greece Might Still be Free: The Philhellenes in the War of Independence , Cambridge 2008, p. 350 ( online )

[1] Lawren Sondhaus: warfare Naval, 1815-1914. Routledge, London, New York 2001, p. 20. “The first steam warship was the American USS Demologos , but it was never used in combat. The British HMS Lightning was the first steam warship that was used in combat operations, but only acted as a tug itself . "

[2] William St. Clair: That Greece Might Still be Free: The Philhellenes in the War of Independence , Cambridge 2008, p. 350 ( online )