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    ORP Mewa (Polish for "seagull") was a Jaskółka-class minesweeper of the Polish Navy at the outset of World War II. Mewa participated in the defense of...
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    (Recollections of Stanislaw Tatar from September 1939". Retrieved July 14, 2010. "ORP Mewa". Zgapa.pl. 2005-06-05. Retrieved 2010-07-15. "Wielka Encyklopedia Uzbrojenia...
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  • Prystor (since October 4, 1935). January 6. Second World Zionist-Revisionist Conference begins in Kraków, January 10. ORP Mewa is launched, January 15....
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    ORP Mazur was a torpedo boat, then gunnery training ship of the Polish Navy. She was the former German torpedo boat V-105. She took part in the Polish...
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    ORP Wicher, the lead ship of the Wicher class, was a Polish Navy destroyer. She saw combat in the Invasion of Poland, which began World War II in Europe...
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    ORP Jaskółka was the lead ship of her class of minesweepers in the Polish Navy at the outset of World War II. Jaskółka was sunk during the Nazi invasion...
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    ("ptaszki"– "Birds"): ORP Jaskółka – Swallow, sunk 1939 ORP Mewa – Seagull ORP Rybitwa – Tern ORP Czajka – Lapwing ORP Żuraw – Crane ORP Czapla – Heron Polish...
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    1924 he commanded the following ships: minesweepers ORP Czajka and ORP Mewa and the gunboat ORP General Haller. In 1927 he was appointed as the director...
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    caller at Halifax, making over 100 trips to Halifax with immigrants. In 1935 Anchor Line went into liquidation and Donaldson Line bought most of its assets...
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    flag and the largest ship in the world until completion of SS Normandie in 1935. The third and largest member of German Hamburg America Line's trio of transatlantic...
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    flight deck before March 1934. Courageous was refitted again between October 1935 and June 1936 with her pom-pom mounts. She was present at the Coronation...
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  • Żbik, a submarine, interned in Sweden Mewa, Jaskółka, Rybitwa, Czajka, Żuraw, Czapla - 6 small minesweepers. ORP Mewa, Jaskółka and Czapla were sunk by German...
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    installed for use by the Rangefinding School. Pluton spent much of 1933–1935 in dockyard hands after finishing her first round of modifications on 27...
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  • renamed Caldew in that time. She collided with fellow trawler Ospray II in 1935, sinking the latter ship. On 27 September 1939, four weeks after the outbreak...
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  • incidents in September 1939 Shipwrecks 1 Sep: ORP Mazur 3 Sep: Athenia, ORP Gryf, ORP Mewa, ORP Wicher 6 Sep: ORP General Haller 8 Sep: HNLMS Willem van Ewijck...
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    net. Retrieved 17 February 2015. Hofmann, Markus. "U 39". Deutsche U-Boote 1935-1945 - u-boot-archiv.de (in German). Retrieved 7 December 2014. 58°32′N 11°49′W...
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    joined the staff of SubDiv 4. He commanded submarine salvage ship Falcon from 1935–1938, served as Officer in Command of the Submarine Escape Training Tank...
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    Kriegsmarine built for service in World War II. Her keel was laid down in November 1935 in Bremen. She was commissioned in August 1936 with Korvettenkapitän Hans...
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  • Register: Chalutiers &c. Car (in English and French). London: Lloyd's Register. 1935–1936. Retrieved 28 May 2022 – via Southampton City Council. Gröner 1993,...
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  • Chalutiers &c. R (in English and French). London: Lloyd's Register. 1934–1935. Retrieved 31 May 2022 – via Southampton City Council. Gröner 1993, p. 212...
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  • Trawlers &c. HIN-HIY (in English and French). London: Lloyd's Register. 1935–1936. Retrieved 4 June 2022 – via Southampton City Council. Gröner 1993,...
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  • Chalutiers &c. DIR-DOG (in English and French). London: Lloyd's Register. 1934–1935. Retrieved 29 May 2022 – via Southampton City Council. Rohwer, Jürgen; Gerhard...
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