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Fleet tanker ORP Bałtyk: Z-1 1991 3,021 tonnes [17] Homeport: Gdynia. B199 class 1 Poland: Fleet tanker Z-8: Z-8 1970 1,225 tonnes [18] Homeport: Świnoujście. Survey ship (2) Heweliusz-class. Project 874. 2 Poland: Survey ship ORP Heweliusz: 265 1982 1,214 tonnes [19] Homeport: Gdynia. ORP Arctowski: 266 1982 Tugboats (13) B860 class 6 ...
The Polish Navy fought alongside the Allied navies in Norway, the North Sea, the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and aided in the escort of Atlantic and Arctic convoys, in which ORP Orkan was lost in 1943. Polish naval vessels played a part in the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck, and in the landings in Normandy during D-Day. During ...
The British ships led the Polish ships to Leith, and at night the Polish destroyers arrived at Rosyth. In 1940 Burza supported British forces off Norway in April and in the English Channel in May. [3] On 4 May Burza came alongside the battleship HMS Resolution and took aboard Polish survivors who had survived the sinking of ORP Grom earlier ...
ORP Kujawiak was a Polish A 56 type torpedo boat, served from 1921 to 1939; formerly the German A 68 from World War I, one of the first ships of the Polish Navy. The vessel was acquired by the navy from the division of Imperial German Navy ships after the end of the war. Struggling with technical issues, the unit served as a training ship from ...
Difficulties in maintaining a relatively uniform and compact Flotilla in Świnoujście existed from the very beginning of its creation. In July 1949, Rear Admiral Włodzimierz Steyer, already as the commander of the Navy, came up with the concept of concentrating the main forces of the vessels in Gdynia, because completing, supplying and repairing the flotilla posed serious difficulties.
ORP Grom was the lead ship of her class of destroyers serving in the Polish Navy during World War II. She was named after the Polish word for Thunder or Thunderbolt, while her sister ship ORP Błyskawica translates to lightning bolt.
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.
The Grom-class destroyers were two destroyers, built for the Polish Navy by the British company of J. Samuel White, Cowes. They were laid down in 1935 and commissioned in 1937. The two Groms were some of the fastest and most heavily armed destroyers of World War II.