Greek Submarine Papanikolis (Υ-2)
} ''Papanikolis'' ( el, Y-2 Παπανικολής) was one of the most successful Greek submarines during the Second World War. History ''Papanikolis'', together with her sister ship, , formed the Katsonis-class submarine, first class of Greek submarines ordered after the First World War. She was built at the Chantiers de la Loire shipyards between 1925 and 1927, and commissioned into the Hellenic Navy on 21 December 1927. Its first captain was Cdr P. Vandoros. Despite her age and mechanical problems, she participated in the 1940–41 Greco-Italian War under the command of Lieutenant Commander Miltiadis Iatridis, carrying out six war patrols in the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic. During one of these, on 22 December 1940, she sank the small Italian motor ship ''Antonietta'', and, on the very next day, the 3,952-ton troop carrier near Sazan Island.
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Dimitrios Papanikolis
Dimitrios Papanikolis ( el, Δημήτριος Παπανικολής) (1790–1855) was a naval hero of the Greek Revolution, famous for being the first to successfully employ a fireship to destroy an Ottoman ship of the line. Life Papanikolis was born on the island of Psara in 1790. At an early age he joined his father, Georgios, in his trading travels, and participated in fights with the corsairs of the Barbary Coast. During the first months of the Greek War of Independence, the Greek naval vessels, mostly converted and armed merchantmen, were unable to confront the larger and better-armed Ottoman warships. The rebels therefore decided to use fireships. Papanikolis volunteered for the first attempt, which was carried out successfully on in the harbour of Eressos in Lesbos, where the fireship destroyed an Ottoman two-deck frigate which lay in anchor there. This led to the generalized use of fireships by the Greeks, who were thus able to even the balance with the far more ...
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