The pupils of Grade 5 had the opportunity to visit an important part of  live history of Modern Greece.
They visited the battleship Georgios Averof and they were guided on the ship learning all about its contribution to the Modern History of Greece.

"Georgios Averof (Θ/Κ Γεώργιος Αβέρωφ) , although popularly known as a battleship, she is in fact an armored cruiser  the only ship of this type still in existence. It was  built in Italy for the Royal Hellenic Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. The ship served as the Greek flagship during most of the first half of the century,the most modern warship in the Aegean at the time.

In the First Balkan War played a major role in the establishment of Greek predominance over the Ottoman Navy and the incorporation of many Aegean islands to Greece.

The ship continued to serve in World War I, the Greek-Turkish Warof 1919-1922 and the interwar period reiving a modernization in France in 1925 to 1927. Following the German invasion of Greece in April 1941, Averof participated in the exodus of the Greek fleet to Egypt."

From 1984 until today, she has been reinstated on active duty as a Museum ship in the Naval Tradition Park of our city.
(Faliro, Attica)

They also saw the Olympias Trireme , a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme and an important example of experimental archaeology.