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    ORP Mazur was a torpedo boat, then gunnery training ship of the Polish Navy. She was the former German torpedo boat V-105. She took part in the Polish...
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    working on the White Star Line’s North Atlantic run, originally launched in 1914 as the Hamburg America Liner SS Bismarck. At 56,551 gross register tons,...
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  • Destroyers ORP Błyskawica ORP Grom ORP Burza ORP Wicher ORP Garland ORP Orkan ORP Huragan ORP Piorun Escort Destroyers ORP Krakowiak ORP Kujawiak ORP Ślązak...
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    ORP Kaszub was a torpedo boat of the Polish Navy, and one of the first ships of that navy after Poland regained its independence in 1918. It was originally...
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  • SMS V106 (category 1914 ships)
    German ocean-going torpedo boats of World War I Sister ships ORP Mazur (ex-V105) ORP Kaszub (1921) (ex-V108) SMS V107 Gardiner and Gray 1985, p. 170...
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    SS Kościuszko (redirect from ORP Gdynia)
    before the Invasion of Poland. On 10 November 1939 she was commissioned as ORP Gdynia. Initially she was a troopship, but she was considered unsuitable...
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    ORP Wilia (old spelling ORP Wilja) was a transport and training ship of the Polish Navy of the Second Polish Republic, from 1940 a merchant ship SS Modlin...
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    scrap and was disposed of at Troon in Scotland. SHIPS OF THE ROYAL NAVY, 1914-1919 - in ALPHABETICAL ORDER (Part 2 of 2) HMS WALKER (D 27) - V & W-class...
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  • Caldew (trawler) (category 1914 ships)
    Caldew was a British steam fishing trawler. Launched in 1914 as Maristo, she was requisitioned by the Royal Navy for service in the First World War the...
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    flagship of the Training Squadron until the start of World War I in July 1914. The ship spent much of the war in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, where she...
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  • SMS V107 (category 1914 ships)
    German ocean-going torpedo boats of World War I Sister ships ORP Mazur (ex-V105) SMS V106 ORP Kaszub (ex-V108) Gardiner and Gray state that V107 had 8.8...
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    would be at the expense of Poland. In response, Piłsudski sent the destroyer ORP Wicher into the harbour of Danzig. Though the issue was ostensibly about...
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  • British steam fishing trawler. Launched in 1912, it was requisitioned in 1914 by the Royal Navy for service in World War I and fitted out as a minesweeper...
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    Royal Australian Navy destroyer HMAS Norman and the Polish Navy destroyer ORP Garland on 17 January 1942, after which she and rest of the local escort...
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  • minesweepers. ORP Mewa, Jaskółka and Czapla were sunk by German bombers near Hel and Oksywie, others have been captured and salvaged by Germans. Mazur, an artillery...
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    time and with a highly experienced crew. At the opening of World War I, in 1914, the French Army had about 4,000 of these field guns in service. By the end...
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    In terms of equipment the Polish Navy lost one destroyer (ORP Wicher), one minelayer (ORP Gryf) and several support craft. Equipment loses included 132...
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