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List of active Hellenic Navy ships

Active Hellenic Navy ships

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ4385334 ↗
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The Hellenic Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the Armed Forces of Greece. As of 2026, the Navy operates a wide variety of warships including: 13 frigates, 8 submarines, 13 missile boats, 9 gunboats, 6 patrol boats and others.

Current fleet

Submarine fleet

Combat surface fleet

Memorial ships fleet

Future ships

Submarines

A bid for four submarines is ongoing as of 2025 as part of the Achilles' Shield Programme.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of active Hellenic Navy ships” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.