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Rescue ships (4) Piast-class: 2 Poland: Multi-task rescue-salvage ship ORP Piast 281 1974 1,600 tonnes [15] Homeport: Gdynia. ORP Lech 282 1974 Zbyszko-class: 2 Poland: Salvage and rescue ship ORP Zbyszko R-14 1991 380 tonnes [15] Homeport: Gdynia. ORP Maćko R-15 1992 Survey (2) Nawigator-class. Project 863. 2 Poland: Survey ORP Navigator
During the Polish–Soviet War fought from February 1919 to October 1920 (ended by armistice in March 1921) between Soviet Russia and the Second Polish Republic – in the aftermath of World War I in Europe – the Polish order of battle included broad disposition of personnel, strength, organization, and command structure.
The Polish Navy has its roots in naval vessels that were largely employed on Poland's main rivers in defense of trade and commerce. During the Thirteen Years' War (1454–66), a small force of ships that primarily operated on rivers and lakes saw real open sea battles for the first time. At the Battle of Vistula Lagoon, a combined fleet of the ...
OSU-35K 35 mm autocannon, 3x WKM-Bm 12.7 mm machine guns, Grom missile launchers. ORP Albatros (602) – a ship of Polish Navy 's Kormoran II class MCMVs. She was laid down on 18 September 2018, and launched on 19 October 2019 at Remontowa Shipbuilding yard in Gdańsk. [1] Her non-magnetic 58.5 meter hull is made from austenitic steel.
Kontradmirał Xawery Czernicki. ORP Kontradmirał Xawery Czernicki is a mine countermeasure forces command vessel of the Polish Navy. [1] The ship's design was based on a hull of the 130 class degaussing station planned by the Construction Bureau of the Refurbishing Shipyard in Gdańsk. The hull was ordered by the Russian Navy, but the contract ...
Ships were acquired from France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, and the navy was to be able to secure the Polish supply lines in case of a war against the Soviet Union. By September 1939 the Polish Navy consisted of 5 submarines, 4 destroyers, and various support vessels and mine-warfare ships. This force was no match for the large ...
ORP Kormoran (601) – a lead ship of Polish Navy 's Kormoran II class MCMVs. She was laid down on 23 September 2014, launched on 4 September 2015 at Remontowa Shipbuilding yard in Gdańsk and commissioned on 28 November 2017. Her non-magnetic 58.5 meters in length hull was made from austenitic steel. She has 830 tons of standard displacement.
As the USS Clark, she was the US Navy's fifth ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class, and was named for Admiral Joseph James "Jocko" Clark (1893–1971). The ship is propelled by two General Electric LM-2500 gas turbines and two 350 horsepower (261 kW) electric drive auxiliary propulsion units. The Gen K. Pułaski is currently homeported at ...