List of Polish submarine classes

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This list deals exclusively with submarine classes of the Polish Navy . See therefore the list of submarine classes .

The still young Polish Navy received its first submarines at the beginning of the 1930s. There were three boats of the Wilk class built in France. Shortly before the start of the Second World War , two Orzeł-class boats were added, which had been built in the Netherlands. During the war, an old American S-class boat and two modern British U-class boats were taken over by the Allies.

Four Polish submarines returned to Poland after the war. The old Wilk boats were soon scrapped. The remaining Orzeł class boat, the ORP Sęp , served as a training boat until the end of the 1960s.

In the 1950s, the Soviet Union supplied six small Malyutka-class coastal boats, which were soon replaced by four larger whiskey-class boats. These boats were used until the mid-1980s.

Then two boats of the Soviet Foxtrot class and a modern kilo class boat were procured. The latter is still in use today.

In the run-up to Poland's accession to NATO in 2004, it became necessary to adapt the equipment of the Polish army and navy to NATO standards. Therefore, four relatively old, but outdated and modernized Norwegian Kobben-class boats were taken over. The boats were built in Germany in the 1960s as class 207 for Norway. In return, the Foxtrot class boats were decommissioned.

Although Poland has a developed shipbuilding industry, all Polish submarines were built and imported abroad.

Current units

Orzeł class ( Soviet kilo class )

  1. ORP Orzeł (291) (entered service in 1986)

Kobben class (built in Germany as type 207 in the 1960s and previously in Norwegian service)

  1. ORP Sokół (294) (formerly KNM Stord (S-308) , built in 1967, sold to Poland in 2002)
  2. ORP Sęp (295) (formerly KNM Skolpen (S-306) , built in 1966, sold to Poland in 2002)
  3. ORP Bielik (296) (formerly KNM Svenner (S-309) , built in 1967, sold to Poland in 2003)
  4. ORP Kondor (297) (formerly KNM Kunna (S-319) , built in 1964, sold to Poland in 2004)

Decommissioned and lost units

1931 to 1945

Wilk class (1931) (Builtin France in the late 1920s)

  1. ORP Wilk (commissioned in 1931, scrapped 1951)
  2. ORP Ryś (entered service in 1931, decommissioned 1955, scrapped 1956)
  3. ORP Żbik (entered service in 1932, decommissioned 1955, scrapped 1956)

Orzeł class (1939) (Builtin the Netherlands in the late 1930s)

  1. ORP Orzeł (85A) (commissioned in 1939, missing in the North Sea since 1940; probably run into a sea mine.)
  2. ORP Sęp (1939) (entered service in 1939, closed in 1969, scrapped in 1972)

S-Class ( American submarines from the early 1920s)

  1. ORP Jastrząb (built until 1923, transferred to the Royal Navy in 1940and then placed under Polish command, sunk on May 2, 1942 by self-fire off Northern Norway.)

U class ( British submarines from the 1930s and early 1940s.)

  1. ORP Sokół (N97) (entered service in 1941, sold to the Royal Navy in 1946, decommissioned in 1948, scrapped in 1949)
  2. ORP Dzik (P52) (put into service 1942, 1947 to Denmark ( U 1 ), renamed Springeren in 1950, back to Great Britain in 1957, scrapped in 1958)

1945 to 1989

Project 96 (M-XV) Malyutka (Built in the Soviet Union in the 1940s and 1950s)

  1. ORP Ślązak
  2. ORP Kaszub
  3. ORP Kurp
  4. ORP Krakowiak
  5. ORP Kujawiak
  6. ORP Mazur

Orzeł class (1962) (Soviet whiskey class ; 1962–1988)

  1. ORP Orzeł (292) (entered service in 1962, decommissioned and scrapped in 1983.)
  2. ORP Sokół (293) (entered service in 1964, decommissioned and scrapped in 1987.)
  3. ORP Kondor (294) (entered service in 1965, decommissioned and scrapped in 1985.)
  4. ORP Bielik (295) (entered service in 1965, decommissioned and scrapped in 1988.)

Wilk class (1987) (Soviet Foxtrot class ; 1987-2003)

  1. ORP Wilk (292) (entered service in 1987, decommissioned in 2003.)
  2. ORP Dzik (293) (entered service in 1989, decommissioned in 2003.)

See also