ORP Warszawa (1958)

Warszawa

ORP Warszawa on demagnetization

Ship data flag  Soviet Union Poland   other ship names Sprawedliwi until 1970/71 Ship type destroyer class Kotlin SAM class (Project 56AE) Shipyard Shipyard No. 196 “Sudomech” or No. 190 “Imeni Zhdanova” Leningrad Build number 709 Keel laying 1956 or December 25, 1954 Launch 1957 or April 12, 1956 takeover June 25, 1970 Commissioning 1958 or December 27, 1956 Decommissioning January 31, 1986 Whereabouts Canceled

Ship dimensions and crew length 127.5 m ( Lüa ) width 12.9 m Draft Max. 4.6 m displacement 3,600  t Standard displacement 2,850  ts   crew about 300

Machine system machine 4 × KW-76 steam boilers 2 × GTZA steam turbines Machine performance 72,000 PS (52,956 kW) Top speed 38 kn (70 km / h) propeller 2

Armament 1 × 2 L / 58 gun SM-2-1 (130 mm) 1 × double starter RZ-61 ( SA-N-1 Wolna ) 1 × 4 FlaK SM-20-ZIF11 (45 mm) 2 × twelve-tube RBU-6000 water bomb launchers 1 × 5 torpedo tubes ∅ 533 mm

The ORP Warszawa was a destroyer of Kotlin-SAM-Class , the first as Sprawedliwi by the Soviet Baltic Fleet and later the Polish Navy was used.

history

The Sprawedliwi was built as a Kotlin-class ship (Project 56) and modified from 1968 to 1969 by dismantling the artillery at the stern and the aft torpedo tube group and replacing it with a double launch pad for anti-aircraft missiles M-1 Wolna (SA-N-1A) was replaced. This configuration was called Project 56AE (E for export) and differed from the variant used in the Soviet Navy in that it was simpler electronic equipment. The ship was purchased by Poland for 952,300 postcodes . On June 25, 1970, the Polish flag was hoisted in Gdynia on the ship now called Warszawa . The formal decommissioning in the Soviet Navy only followed on January 27, 1971. It was not until mid-1971 that the ship's commissioning was disclosed in the Polish media.

The name of the ship after the Polish capital Warsaw broke with the forty-year tradition of naming destroyers after weather events. The ship carried the tactical mark 275 . For financial reasons, no further units were taken over.

After it was decommissioned on January 31, 1986, the Warszawa stayed in Gdynia for a few years until it was brought to Swinoujscie and scrapped there.

Commanders

1. komandor podporucznik Bogusław Gruchała - June 25, 1970 - February 21, 1972
2. komandor podporucznik Edmund Chełchowski - February 21, 1972 - November 25, 1976
3. kapitan marynarki Jerzy Wójcik - November 25, 1976 - January 31, 1986

Individual evidence

1. ^ "ORP" is the abbreviation for "Okręt Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej" and the name prefix of Polish ships. ORP means "Warship of the Republic of Poland". Warszawa is the Polish name of the city of Warsaw .
2. ↑ Справедливый Sprawedliwi , The Righteous
3. ↑ "komandor podporucznik" corresponds to OF-3 ( corvette captain ).
4. ↑ "kapitan marynarki" corresponds to OF-2 ( captain lieutenant ).

literature

• Jarosław Ciślak: Polska Marynarka Wojenna 1995 , Warsaw 1995
• Marek Soroka: Polskie Okręty Wojenne 1945-1980 , Danzig 1986

Web links

• Bractwo ORP Warszawa: Historia - Okręty (Polish)
• navsource.narod.ru: «Справедливый» (story and photographs) (Russian)