ORP Wicher (English: Whirlwind) was a Project 30bis destroyer, transferred to the People's Republic of Poland from the Soviet Union in 1958.[2] She was built by the Zhdanov shipyard in Leningrad and originally commissioned into the Soviet Baltic Fleet as the Skoryy ("Rapid") in 1951, and transferred to Poland in 1958 together with a second ship, ORP Grom.[1] The ship was decommissioned in 1975, and scrapped.[1] One of the 130 mm guns is preserved in the Polish Navy Museum in Gdynia.[3] Remainings of the scrapped vessel were sunk at the beach in Hel as breakwater, where they remain to this day.
 ORP Wicher of the Polish Navy
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| History | |
|---|---|
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| Name | ORP Wicher |
| Builder | Zhdanov Shipyard, Leningrad[1] |
| Yard number | 603[1] |
| Laid down | 15 February 1949[1] |
| Launched | 14 August 1949[1] |
| Acquired | from USSR, 29 June 1958[2] |
| Decommissioned | 1975[1] |
| Fate | Scrapped; remainings sunk in Hel as breakwater |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Project 30bis destroyer |
| Displacement | 2,316 long tons (2,353 t) standard, 3,066 long tons (3,115 t) full load |
| Length | 120.5 m (395 ft 4 in) |
| Beam | 12 m (39 ft 4 in) |
| Draught | 3.9 m (12 ft 10 in) |
| Propulsion | 2 shaft geared turbines, 3 boilers, 60,000 shp (45,000 kW) |
| Speed | 36.5 knots (67.6 km/h; 42.0 mph) |
| Range | 4,080 nautical miles (7,560 km; 4,700 mi) at 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Complement | 286 |
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References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g "Destroyers - Project 30bis". russian-ships.info. 2012. Archived from the original on 10 April 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
- ^ a b "Проект 30-бис - Skory class". atrinaflot.narod.ru (in Russian). 2012. Archived from the original on 1 September 2007. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
- ^ "Polish Navy Museum". navy.mw.mil.pl. 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
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