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    ORP Orzeł was an Orzeł class submarine of the Polish Navy that served during WWII. Orzeł was laid down 14 August 1936 at the Dutch shipyard De Schelde...
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  • been named ORP Orzeł (meaning eagle in Polish): ORP Orzeł (1938) was an Orzeł-class submarine commissioned in 1939 and lost in 1940 ORP Orzeł (1962) was...
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    ORP Orzeł a Polish Navy submarine of Project 613 (Whiskey class) . She was built in the Soviet Union as S-265 and was commissioned by the Polish Navy...
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    The Orzeł incident occurred at the beginning of World War II in September 1939, when the interned Polish submarine ORP Orzeł escaped from Tallinn, in neutral...
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    ORP Sęp was an Orzeł-class submarine serving in the Polish Navy during World War II. In Polish her name means Vulture. Built at the Dutch shipyard Rotterdamsche...
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  • submarines were ordered in De Schelde and Rotterdamse Shipyards, ORP Orzeł (Eagle) and ORP Sęp (Vulture). Design was made in cooperation with a team from...
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  • Polish Navy have been named ORP Sęp: ORP Sęp (1938) was an Orzeł-class submarine launched in 1938 and scrapped in 1972 ORP Sęp (2002), previously the Kobben-class...
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    ORP Grom was the lead ship of her class of destroyers serving in the Polish Navy during World War II. She was named after the Polish word for Thunderbolt...
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    54°40′N 18°34′E / 54.667°N 18.567°E / 54.667; 18.567 ORP Gryf (English: "Griffin") was a large Polish Navy minelayer, sunk during the 1939 German invasion...
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    submarine ORP Sęp. Shortly before the start of World War II, he was transferred to the submarine ORP Orzeł. During the Invasion of Poland, when ORP Orzeł was...
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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 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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    submarine U-39 was a Type IXA U-boat of the Kriegsmarine that operated from 1938 to the first few days of World War II. She was ordered by the Kriegsmarine...
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    influence". After the invasion of Poland, the Orzeł incident took place when Polish submarine ORP Orzeł looked for shelter in Tallinn but escaped after...
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    explodes due to an accident killing 215 people. The Polish submarine ORP Orzeł enters for repairs Tallinn harbour in neutral Estonia. 14 September The...
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    was a Polish engineer, co-designer of the Polish submarines ORP Sęp (1938) and ORP Orzeł, a fighter pilot, and an officer in World War II Home Army's...
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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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    ORP Warszawa was an armed river monitor of the Riverine Flotilla of the Polish Navy, launched in 1920 and scuttled in 1939. She was raised by the Soviets...
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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 Komendant Piłsudski was a Filin-class guard ship originally built at Ab Crichton in Turku, Finland, for the Imperial Russian Navy. She was bought...
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    ORP General Haller was a Filin-class guard ship originally built for the Imperial Russian Navy. She was later acquired by the Polish Navy and served until...
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    SS Kościuszko (redirect from ORP Gdynia)
    before the Invasion of Poland. On 10 November 1939 she was commissioned as ORP Gdynia. Initially she was a troopship, but she was considered unsuitable...
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    Urartu antiquities by the American scholars Kirsopp and Silva Lake during 1938–1940 and most of their finds and field records were lost in the sinking of...
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    assigned to the Atlantic and Home Fleets from 12 August 1930 to December 1938, aside from a temporary attachment to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1936. In...
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    Navy shortly before the beginning of Second World War in 1939. Completed in 1938 the ship was initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet where she served...
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    Barrow-in-Furness. She was launched on 5 October 1937, and commissioned on 9 November 1938. At the onset of the Second World War, Triton was a member of the 2nd Submarine...
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    destroyers. The Marynarka ended up with the two French-built destroyers, ORP Wicher and the ORP Burza together with the French-built submarines Wilk, Żbik, and...
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    Apprentices on the ship's books. At the peak of her training career during 1938–1939, her books were full. After the outbreak of World War II, the trainees...
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  • construction of a submarine for the Polish Navy. Thus, the legendary ORP Orzeł was funded. In collaboration with Portuguese colonial authorities, the...
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    Garland will shortly join the Mediterranean, and the two submarines, ORP Orzeł and Wilk form part of the 2nd submarine Flotilla." Unlike the Polish army...
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