The Georgios Averof was a Pisa-class armoured cruiser that the Italian government decided it didn't quite have the need/money for. Luckily for the maker and ship Greece decided that they did however. The ship in return performed extremely well in the Balkan wars, where she almost single handedly chased off the Turkish navy in two battles, securing Greek naval domination in the Aegean sea. She was eventually decommissioned in 1952, restored as a museum ship in 1984, and then restored to sea-going