ORP Warszawa (1969)

Warszawa

ORP Warszawa in 2004 after retirement

Ship data flag  Soviet Union Poland   other ship names Smeli until 1988 Ship type destroyer class Kashin Mod class Shipyard Shipyard No. 444 , Nikolayev Build number 1712 Keel laying November 15, 1966 Launch February 6, 1968 takeover January 9, 1988 Commissioning November 7, 1969 Decommissioning 2003 Whereabouts Demolition from 2004

Ship dimensions and crew length 146.20 m ( Lüa ) width 15.80 m Draft Max. 6.80 (including sonar) m displacement Standard : 4,250 ts Maximum: 4,950 ts   crew 315 men

Machine system machine 4 × gas turbine Machine performance 4 × 24,000 PS (17,650 kW) Top speed 35 kn (65 km / h) propeller 2 × 2

Armament 4 × single starter P-21 / P-22 ( SS-N-2C Styx ) 2 × double starter RZ-61 ( SA-N-1 Wolna ) 2 × 2 76mm L / 59 AK-726 4 × six-barrel Gatling guns Ak-630M (30 mm) 2 × twelve-tube RBU-6000 water bomb launchers 1 × 5 torpedo tubes ∅ 533 mm

The ORP Warszawa was the last unit of the Polish Navy to be classified as a destroyer . The ship belonged to the Soviet class Kashin Mod (61 MP) . To distinguish it from the destroyer of the same name of the Kotlin SAM class , it was unofficially referred to as ORP Warszawa II , although strictly speaking it was the third ship in the Polish Navy named after the Polish capital Warsaw .

history

The ship was initially integrated into the Soviet Black Sea Fleet as a class 61 unit under the name Smeli , and after the conversion in 1973, which brought it to the standard 61 MP, it was transferred to the Baltic fleet . During this time it carried the tactical mark 440. From 1982 to 1985 it was overhauled in Riga .

After the ORP Warszawa of the Kotlin-SAM class was decommissioned in 1986, the management of the Polish Navy decided to lease a Soviet destroyer of the Kashin class. The Soviet Navy offered the Smeli for this. After another overhaul in Leningrad in 1987 , the ship came to Gdynia in autumn of that year and, after a six-week handover, was incorporated into the Polish naval forces with the name Warszawa and number 271. The lease contained a ban on changing the ship as well as a purchase option.

As a result, Warszawa made several visits abroad:

• 9-12 May 1989: London ,
• 11-14 September 1989: Stockholm ,
• 5th-9th October 1989 Warnemünde / Rostock ,
• 7-10 April 1992: Kiel as well
• 1-10 September 1992: Amsterdam .

At the turn of the year 1992/1993 the ship was transferred to the Polish state as part of the settlement against Russian national debts. The ship was modernized in the 1990s. On December 5, 2003, the Polish flag was struck down on the Warszawa , the formal decommissioning was retrospectively set to December 1, 2003.

Commanders

1. komandor porucznik Jerzy Wójcik - January 1988 - October 1990
2. komandor porucznik Zdzisław Płaczek - October 1990 - November 1998
3. komandor podporucznik Krzysztof Maćkowiak - November 1998 - December 2003

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Warszawa" złomowana. In: Życie Warszawy , October 20, 2004
2. ^ "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 .
3. ↑ Смелый Smeli , The Bold .
4. ↑ "komandor porucznik" corresponds to OF-4 ( frigate captain ).
5. ↑ "komandor podporucznik" corresponds to OF-3 ( corvette captain ).

literature

• Jarosław Ciślak: Polska Marynarka Wojenna 1995 , Warsaw 1995

Web links

Commons : ORP Warszawa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bractwo ORP Warszawa: Historia okrętu 271