 She was also equipped with a light gun armament consisting of a pair of Hotchkiss guns and a pair of Hotchkiss guns.The First Balkan War, pitting the decaying Ottoman Empire against Greece, Serbia, and Bulgaria, broke out on 19 October 1912.The Greek Navy quickly gained superiority in the Aegean; on the day before hostilities began, the main Greek naval force, including the powerful armored cruiser "Georgios Averof", the three elderly s, and fourteen destroyers including "Lonchi", departed from Piraeus and landed troops at Mudros Bay on the 20th.