Greek submarine Delfin (1912)
Delfin was a submarine built for the Greek Navy in 1911. She served during the Balkan Wars, earning the distinction of being the first submarine in the world to conduct offensive patrols and launch a submerged torpedo attack against a warship.
A scale model of Delfin at the Athens War Museum
A torpedo being loaded into Xifias at Toulon
The First Balkan War lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and involved actions of the Balkan League against the Ottoman Empire. The Balkan states' combined armies overcame the initially numerically inferior and strategically disadvantaged Ottoman armies, achieving rapid success.
Clockwise from top right: Serbian forces entering the town of Mitrovica; Ottoman troops at the Battle of Kumanovo; Meeting of the Greek king George I and the Bulgarian tsar Ferdinand I in Thessaloniki; Bulgarian heavy artillery
Greek artillerymen with 75 mm field gun
The armored cruiser Georgios Averof, flagship of the Greek fleet. She was the most modern warship involved in the conflict and played a crucial role in operations in the Aegean.
Ottoman troops during the Balkan Wars