USS Stickell (DD-888) - HNS Kanaris (D-212)

HNS Kanaris (D-212)

Kanaris (D-212) (Greek Κανάρης) was the second ship in the Hellenic Navy with this name (the first was Kanaris (L51), the former HMS Hatherleigh, a Hunt III-class destroyer transferred to Greece from the Royal Navy in 1941) was named for Admiral Constantine Kanaris (1793–1877), a fire ship captain in the Greek War of Independence, and later Prime Minister of Greece.

She commissioned into the Hellenic Navy (Greek Navy) on 1 July 1972 at Norfolk, Virginia, by Cdr. K. Zografos HN. After sea trials and training she sailed to Greece where she arrived on 29 March 1973. She served in the Hellenic Navy for 20 years as part of the Destroyers Command Force. She performed many patrols in the Aegean Sea participated in Greek and NATO exercises and had active participation in the conflicts with Turkey in 1974 and 1987.

The Ship's Badge depicts the hand of a fire ship captain holding the torch used to set on fire the fire ship, while the fireship sails toward an Ottoman flagship during Greek War of Independence, the same badge used for the later frigate bearing the same name.

Kanaris was decommissioned on 15 September 1993, and sold for scrap in 2002.