The 500th SS-Parachute Battalion (German: SS-Fallschirmjägerbataillon 500) was the airborne unit of the Waffen-SS. The idea to form a paratrooper unit...

Stocznia Gdynia S.A. The shipyard was founded in 1922, initially building small coastal vessels. The construction of its first larger ship, SS Olza, was...

the ship was named SS Olza, after an eponymous river flowing through Cieszyn Silesia. The keel was laid 28 August 1938 in the Gdynia Shipyard. Most of...

She was built as Czaritza and later bore the names Lituania, Kościuszko, Gdynia and Empire Helford. The name Kościuszko refers to Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746...

1 May 1936. The airport serviced international route Gdynia-Copenhagen and domestic route Gdynia-Warszawa and by 1 January 1939, the number of passengers...

(1969–1988) and mainly sailed from Gdynia–Copenhagen–Rotterdam–London–Montreal–Southampton–Rotterdam–Copenhagen–Gdynia. According to the contemporary press...

merchant steamship. It was owned by Polish Ocean Lines and was registered in Gdynia. The ship served during World War II, including at Normandy landings. On...

Estonia for the Baltic American Line, then named Pułaski for the PTTO (later Gdynia America Line) and as a UK Ministry of War Transport troopship, and as Empire...

SS Cap Arcona, named after Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen, was a large German ocean liner, later a ship of the Kriegsmarine, and finally a prison ship...

Zegluga Morska, Poland and renamed Kopalnia. Relegated to a storage vessel at Gdynia in 1971 and renamed MP-ZP-GDY 7. Empire Union was a 5,952 GRT cargo ship...

54°41′N 16°51′E / 54.683°N 16.850°E / 54.683; 16.850 SS General von Steuben was a German passenger liner and later an armed transport ship of the German...

Tadeusz Kościuszko is homeported in Gdynia Oksywie, and has participated in numerous NATO exercises in the Baltic Sea. SS Kościuszko Saunders, p. 558 Saunders...

SS Poznań and SS Kraków. These ships were usually called "carbon carriers," or "French" because of their origin. Toruń entered Gdynia in January 1927...

Schichau-Werke (Elbląg) Pölitz (Police near Szczecin) Gotenhafen in Gdynia Gdynia-Orłowo Außenarbeitslager Gerdauen (Zheleznodorozhny) Graudenz in Grudziądz...

MS Batory was a Polish ocean liner which was the flagship of Gdynia-America Line, named after Stefan Batory, the sixteenth-century King of Poland. She...

500 m away from coast in Gdynia Naval Harbour (Formoza means Formosa in Polish). The headquarters are stationed in Gdynia, Poland. It is subordinated...

MotoArena Toruń and Stadion Miejski in Gdynia. Main indoor arenas include Ergo Arena in Gdańsk/Sopot, Gdynia Arena in Gdynia and Netto Arena in Szczecin. The...

German-occupied Baltic states, and German military personnel from Gotenhafen (Gdynia) as the Red Army advanced. By one estimate, 9,400 people died, making it...

January 1943 and its remnants were withdrawn to Gotenhafen-Adlershorst, (now [Gdynia-Orłowo], Poland), where they were used to help form the first battalion...

constructed for the South American service of the Gdynia-America Line – GAL to replace the aging SS Kościuszko and SS Pulaski. She was named in honour of the Polish...

flooded engine room, the ship was towed to the German-occupied Polish port of Gdynia for temporary repairs. The ship was then towed to Copenhagen, carrying 5...

– 21 February 1960) was a German SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor of the Waffen-SS and police, who served as the SS and Police Leader in Ukraine and...

Gottlieb Hering (2 June 1887 – 9 October 1945) was an SS commander of Nazi Germany. He served in Action T4 and later as the second and last commandant...

the awards for Best Actress, Best Sound and Best Special Effects at the Gdynia Film Festival and two of the prestigious Golden Rooster Awards given by...

additional employees were sent to the post office from Polish Post offices in Gdynia and Bydgoszcz (mostly reserve non-commissioned officers). In the building...

MS Finnpulp and MS Finnwave. Finnlines makes runs between Helsinki and Gdynia with three/four departures per week. Finnlines makes runs between Helsinki...

Forest, the Battle of Westerplatte, the Battle of Hel and the Battle of Gdynia. In preparation for Operation Barbarossa, Army Group North was reformed...

Oceaniczne) is a Polish commercial shipping company, with headquarters in Gdynia. The company was created in 1951 in a merger of three smaller shipping companies...

sold to Gdynia-America Shipping Lines in Gdańsk, Poland and renamed SS Kilinski. In 1971 she was sold to Poul Christensen in Denmark and renamed SS Lin....

Blainville: SS Wieluń, SS Kraków, SS Toruń, SS Poznań, the oldest of the acquired ships was SS Narocz (2,520 DWT) built in 1915 in Great Britain, SS Narew (310...