List of ships of the Polish Navy 1920–1945

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The list of ships of the Polish Navy 1920-1945 includes ships of the Polish Navy until the end of the attack on Poland in September 1939, as well as ships of the Polish Armed Forces in the West 1939-1945.

Ships of the Polish Navy until the end of the attack on Poland in 1939

destroyer

Destroyer Grom
  • Grom class
    • ORP Grom
    • ORP Błyskawica
    • On September 1, 1939, two more destroyers of the class, ORP Huragan and ORP Orkan, were under construction at Polish shipyards. Both were destroyed.

Torpedo boats

Torpedo boat Mazur
  • A-III-Boot (ex German)
    • ORP Góral, renamed ORP Podhalanin (ex German A 80 ): deleted in 1938, target ship and tank container; sunk by German aircraft on September 1, 1939 off Hela; lifted and broken off
    • ORP Krakowiak (ex German A 64 ): sunk by German aircraft on September 4, 1939 in the Bay of Danzig
    • ORP Kujawiak (ex German A 68 ): sunk, lifted and scrapped on September 4, 1939 in Gdańsk Bay itself
    • ORP Ślązak (ex German A 59 ): in active service until 1937, used up as a target ship
  • V-Boats (Dutch destroyer; ex Ger.)
    • ORP Kaszub (ex German V 108 , ex Z 4 ): sunk, lifted and broken up on July 20, 1925 by a boiler explosion
    • ORP Mazur (ex German V 105 , ex Z 1 ): sunk, lifted and scrapped on September 1, 1939 in Gdynia by German aircraft

Mine layers

Mine- layer Gryf

Submarines

Orzeł submarine

Minesweepers

Jaskółka minesweeper (FM type)
  • Shallow minesweepers (FM type)
    • ORP Czajka (ex German FM 2 ): Bought in Denmark in 1920, retired in 1935, scuttled in September 1939, then scrapped.
    • ORP Jaskółka (ex Ger. FM 27 ): Bought in Denmark in 1920, retired and scrapped in 1935.
    • ORP Mewa (ex German FM 28 ): Bought in Denmark in 1920, converted to the Pomorzanin survey ship in 1934 . Sunk on September 1, 1939, scrapped in 1946.
    • ORP Rybitwa (ex German FM 31 ): Bought in Denmark in 1920, decommissioned and scrapped in 1935.
Jaskółka- class minesweepers : Rybitwa, Czajka, Mewa and Jaskółka 1937

Gunboats

Gunboat General Haller
  • ORP Komendant Piłsudski (ex Finnish Turunmaa ): Bought in Finland in 1920, mainly used for educational purposes. Sunk himself on October 2, 1939. Reactivated by the Navy as a test boat Heisternest , sunk in 1944 as the M 3109 in France during an air raid.
  • ORP General Haller (ex Finnish Karjala ): Bought in Finland in 1920, mainly used for educational purposes. Destroyed by German air raids on September 6, 1939.

Other units

Ships of the Polish Armed Forces in the West 1939–1945

cruiser

Cruiser Dragon

destroyer

Destroyer hurricane

Escort destroyer

Escort destroyer Krakowiak

Submarines

Submarine Dzik

Speed ​​boats

  • S1 : appointed on January 24, 1939, adopted as S1 (chart) on August 17, 1940 , retired on February 21, 1944.
  • S2, S3 (ex British MGB 44, MGB 45 ): adopted on July 19 and 28, 1940 as S2 (Wilczur) and S3 (Wyżeł). S2 decommissioned on May 20, 1943 due to damage to the hull, S3 on July 5, 1944.
  • S4 (ex British MGB 113 ): Taken over on July 5, 1943, returned on April 18, 1944.
  • S5 - S10 (ex British MTB424 - MTB429 ): adopted between May and October 1944. S5 on October 15, 1944, the rest returned on May 8, 1945.

Submarine hunter

  • CH 11 (ex French): handed over from Great Britain to Poland on July 19, 1940, returned on February 5, 1941
  • CH 15 (ex French): handed over from Great Britain to Poland on July 19, 1940, returned on February 5, 1941

literature

  • Harald Fock: Fleet Chronicle. The active warships involved in both world wars and their whereabouts. Koehler's publishing company, revised and expanded version Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-7822-0788-2 .
  • Robert Gardiner / Roger Chesneau: Conway's All the world's fighting ships 1922-1946. Conway Maritime Press, London 1980, ISBN 0-8317-0303-2 .
  • Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945, Vol. 2: Torpedo boats, destroyers, speedboats, minesweepers, mine clearance boats. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1983, ISBN 3-7637-4801-6 .
  • Erich Gröner, Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815–1945, Vol. 5: Auxiliary ships II: Hospital ships, accommodation ships, training ships, research vehicles, port service vehicles. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1988, ISBN 3-7637-4804-0 .
  • MJ Whitley: Destroyer in World War II. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 2nd edition 1997, ISBN 3-613-01426-2 .
  • Michael Alfred Peszke: Poland's Navy 1918-1945. Hippocrene Books Inc., New York 1999, ISBN 0-7818-0672-0 .
  • Maciej Neumann: Flota II Rzeczypospolitej i jej okręty , Wydawnictwo LTW, Łomianki 2013, ISBN 978-83-7565-309-0 .
  • Stanisław M. Piaskowski: Okręty Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 1920-1946 [The Ships of the Republic of Poland 1920-1946], Planów album, Warsaw 1996, ISBN 83-900217-2-2 .
  • Peter Klepsch: The fleets of the German allies and the war opponents in World War II - inventory and whereabouts, Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7637-0103-6 .
  • Marek Twardowski: The Jaskolka Class Minesweepers. In: Warships. A. quarterly Journal of warship history 15 (1980), Conway Maritime Press, London, pp. 167-179, ISBN 0-85177-207-2 .
  • Marcin Wawrzynkowski: Kanonierki ORP Komendant Pilsudski i ORP General Haller, Napoleon V, Oświęcim 2015, ISBN 978-83-7889-321-9 .
  • Marek Twardowski. Gunner General Haller and Komendant Piłsudski. In: Morza Statki i Okręty. 3/1998, pp. 19-21, ISSN 1426-529X.
  • Piotr Adamczak: Wojenne losy kanonierek. In: Przegląd morski, June 2012 / No. 01 (058), pp. 88–93, ISSN 1897-8436.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ For more information on the individual boats, see: Boats of the A-III class . A fifth boat A 69 was exchanged for V 105 (later ORP Mazur ).
  2. ↑ Dutch destroyer design built at Vulkan. For more information on the individual boats, see: Large torpedo boat ( V 105 – V 108 )