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    ORP Piorun is an Orkan-class fast attack craft and sister ship of Grom and Orkan. The original project was prepared by the German Democratic Republic for...
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    ORP Piorun was an N-class destroyer operated by the Polish Navy in World War II. The word piorun is Polish for "Thunderbolt". Ordered by the Royal Navy...
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    ORP Grom is an Orkan-class fast attack craft. It is the sister ship of Orkan and Piorun. The ship was the result of a construction project undertaken...
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    ORP Orkan is an Orkan-class fast attack craft and sister ship of Grom and Piorun. The original project was prepared by the German Democratic Republic for...
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  • submarine ORP Wilk Danae-class cruiser ORP Dragon ORP Conrad G-class destroyer ORP Garland M-class destroyer ORP Orkan N-class destroyer ORP Piorun Hunt-class...
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    War II, he served as an artillery officer on the ORP Burza, OF Ouragan, ORP Krakowiak, and ORP Piorun. He participated in various combat missions, including...
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    1943 ORP Ouragan, sometimes called Huragan– Hurricane (French Bourrasque class) ORP Piorun – Thunderbolt (British N class) Escort destroyers: ORP Krakowiak...
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    destroyers HMS Cossack, Sikh, Maori and Zulu, and the Polish destroyer ORP Piorun, under command of Captain Philip Vian, was ordered to detach from convoy...
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  • destroyers involved in the attack were HMS Maori, HMS Sikh, HMS Zulu and ORP Piorun. Aboard HMS Zulu, a sub-lieutenant in the gunnery control tower lost a...
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    cypher codebooks. In the same month, Zulu, Sikh, Cossack, Maori and Polish ORP Piorun (N-class destroyer) were in action against the German battleship Bismarck...
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  • Flotilla (HMS Tartar, Ashanti, Eskimo, Javelin, HMCS Haida, Huron, and ORP Błyskawica, Piorun). In the night action, ZH1 was torpedoed and sunk by Ashanti on...
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    battery. After firing three salvos, she straddled the Polish destroyer ORP Piorun. The destroyer continued to close the range until a near miss at around...
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    targeted by incessant torpedo attacks by HMS Cossack, Sikh, Maori, Zulu, and ORP Piorun, denying Lindemann and the crew much-needed rest. Bismarck's alarm sounded...
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    States Navy Clemson Destroyer 1,190 15 December 1920 sunk 2 March 1942 Piorun  Polish Navy N Destroyer 1,773 4 November 1940 to Poland October 1940, to...
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    target of incessant torpedo attacks by HMS Cossack, Sikh, Maori, Zulu, and ORP Piorun designed to wear down the crew. At this point, the Home Fleet and Norfolk...
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    communist authorities in Warsaw in 1946. In May 1941, the Polish destroyer Piorun—Thunderbolt—was able to locate and engage the world's most powerful battleship...
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  • TANKERS - C". Mariners. Retrieved 19 October 2016. Mitchell, WH; Sawyer, LA (1990). The Empire Ships (Second ed.). London, New York, Hamburg, Hong Kong: Lloyd's...
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  • and Heritage Command. Retrieved 4 January 2012. Mitchell, WH; Sawyer, LA (1990). The Empire Ships (Second ed.). London, New York, Hamburg, Hong Kong: Lloyd's...
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  • Heritage Command. Retrieved 31 December 2011. Mitchell, WH; Sawyer, LA (1990). The Empire Ships (Second ed.). London, New York, Hamburg, Hong Kong: Lloyd's...
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  • Royal Navy". Uboat. Retrieved 16 August 2013. Mitchell, WH; Sawyer, LA (1990). The Empire Ships (Second ed.). London, New York, Hamburg, Hong Kong: Lloyd's...
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  • the Royal Navy". Uboat. Retrieved 4 April 2013. Mitchell, WH; Sawyer, LA (1990). The Empire Ships (Second ed.). London, New York, Hamburg, Hong Kong: Lloyd's...
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  • Eikhaug". Warsailors. Retrieved 12 January 2012. Mitchell, WH; Sawyer, LA (1990). The Empire Ships (Second ed.). London, New York, Hamburg, Hong Kong: Lloyd's...
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