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    ORP Błyskawica (Lightning) is a Grom-class destroyer which served in the Polish Navy during World War II. She is the only Polish Navy ship to have been...
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    ORP Fala is a Polish patrol craft of the Project 912 class (NATO: Obluze Class). She was the first ship of a five-ship series, commissioned in 1965. Of...
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    ORP Rolnik (Polish: farmer) was a Polish Navy missile Tarantul-class corvette. Built in Rybinsk for the Soviet Navy as R-833, the ship was acquired by...
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    Retrieved 23 August 2016. Dura, Maksymilian (9 March 2021). "Final Voyage of the ORP "Sęp" Kobben-class Submarine". Defense24.com. Retrieved 22 November 2021...
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    8th Coastal Defence Flotilla (category Military units and formations established in 1965)
    up with the concept of concentrating the main forces of the vessels in Gdynia, because completing, supplying and repairing the flotilla posed serious...
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    ship-base ORP Gdynia in the United Kingdom. In 1940, Bartosik served as a watch keeping officer and deputy gunnery officer aboard the destroyer ORP Błyskawica...
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  • Polish Navy, ORP Grom and ORP Blyskawica, the latter (the oldest preserved destroyer in the world) currently (2022) a museum ship in Gdynia. Egret-class...
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    Fleets Of The World. 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2012. "ORP FLAMING". 4 December 2020. "Spuszczenie bandery na ORP Mewa". "ORP CZAJKA". 8 December 2021....
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  • SS Kościuszko 1915 SS Czaritza (1915–1921) SS Lituania (1921–1930) SS ORP Gdynia (1939) SS Empire Helford (1946–1950) Scrapped in 1950 SS Kronprinz Wilhelm...
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    Gwanggaeto the Great-class destroyers.  Polish Navy has the Grom-class destroyer ORP Błyskawica which remains ceremonially in commission due to her historical...
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    and sank U-971;Haida rescued six survivors. On 14/15 July 1944, Haida and ORP Błyskawica intercepted a group of German ships in the Île de Groix area near...
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    called "carbon carriers," or "French" because of their origin. Toruń entered Gdynia in January 1927. The ceremony of consecrating and raising the Polish flag...
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    part of World War II, the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Danae was rechristened ORP Conrad and served as part of the Polish Navy. Notwithstanding the undoubted...
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  • HelloMonaco. Retrieved 2024-01-02. "Blyskawica – History". Friends of the ORP Blyskawica. Retrieved 17 September 2016. "Dar Pomorza". National Maritime...
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    marynarzy (1918–1947)", Kadry Morskie Rzeczypospolitej, tom V, published in Gdynia by Polskie Towarzystwo Nautologiczne; Komisja Historii Żeglugi. ISBN 978-83-932722-0-4...
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    measures of the workshop. The local museum is also moored at the port of ORP Fala patrol ship, built in 1964, after leaving the service transformed into...
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  • company was later renamed Gdynia America Shipping Line. Requisitioned by the Polish Navy at the outbreak of way and renamed ORP Gdynia. Used as a depot ship...
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  • destroyer HMCS St Clair, Free French destroyer Léopard and Free Polish destroyer ORP Piorun. Andes left Freetown on 7 April, called at Cape Town and reached Suez...
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    Polish Air Force Academy in Dęblin Heroes of Westerplatte Naval Academy in Gdynia Faculty of Military Medicine of the Medical University in Łódź Colégio Militar...
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  • Bartelski, Andrzej (April 2015). "Przyczynek do historii ORP Sławny" [A contribution to the history of ORP Sławny]. Okręty Wojenne (in Polish). Tarnowskie Góry:...
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    Wacław Krzywiec (1908–1956) was a famous warship komandor with the destroyer ORP Błyskawica. He was falsely accused by the communist regime in Poland after...
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