The Protefs class (referred to as the Proteus class in some sources) was a group of submarines built for the Hellenic Navy in the late 1920s. The boats were built to a Loire-Simonot design in France and were larger than the preceding Katsonis class built by a different French company. Four boats were built, all were named after sea gods from Greek mythology. The three boats which survived the fall of Greece in 1941 served under overall Royal Navy control in the Eastern Mediterranean. References Bibliography Submarines of the Hellenic Navy French submarines in foreign service France–Greece relations World War II submarines of Greece