Polish Projects

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Let me check my database

 

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I wrote about this information here on April 8, 2023, it was on page 3, because I checked it now.

 

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What designs of Vickers cruisers were there in 1933-36? Why am I asking this:
I think I once wrote here about the mention of the Vickers cruiser for Poland in the mid-1930s.
What was then available from the famous Vickers cruiser offerings of those years?
As far as I know, this happened when others were offered the same project but under a different number.
They know the known offers of what Vickers could offer Poles back then (depending on what the Poles wanted: 8 inch or 6 inch)
Do you have any guesses as to what it could be, assuming that it is one of the well-known projects from those years but with a different number?

Here:
Light Cruisers:
Vickers Export Design 1054 for Norway - 1932
Vickers Export Design 1070 for Portugal - 1932
Vickers Export Design 1071 for Portugal - 1932
Vickers Proposal - 1936
Vickers Design 1089 - 1937
Vickers Design 1094 - 1937
Vickers Export Design 1087 for Siam - 1938

Heavy Cruisers:
Vickers Export Design 819 for Mexico - 1933
Vickers Export Design 1045 for Brazil - 1933
Vickers Export Design for Chile - 1937

 

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Several ships of the Polish Navy, I think worth mentioning.

1. ORP Bitny - a former German partisan chaser of the ZPK type, the hull of which was found in Toruń and then completed as a submarine chaser.
It was armed with two single 37 mm 70-K guns, the engine was not changed.
He served only a short time, and there are not many photos of him to this day.
The drawing below shows a reconstruction of this ship(from Okręty Wojenne 4/2010).


2. ORP Jamno OP-201.
It was a prototype of the Project 9 patrol ship, which was built on the hull of a German R-boat that had been found. It had a 37 mm 70-K gun.
Project 9 patrol ships were the first patrol ships of Polish design (as I remember), later project 902 was built, I will write about patrol ships another time.


3. Type 205 patrol ships.
These were project 205 missile boats, known as Osa, rebuilt in the late 1980s, there were only 3 units of these patrol ships:
ORP Gdynia OP-301, later SG-301
ORP Szczecin OP-302, later SG-302
ORP Elbląg OP-303, later SG-303.
The changes were as follows: missile armament, main guns, Rangout and MR-104 radars were removed
a second navigation radar and a 25 mm 2M-3M gun were added.
However, they served only for a short time, until the 1990s.
Below is ORP Szczecin, the photo comes from Okręty Wojenne 4/2011.

Not everyone may know them, so I'm giving them to you.

 

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Other ships.
There was an Italian MZ type landing barge, apparently the Germans brought this ship to the Baltic Sea, and then we found this ship and it was incorporated into the Polish Navy.

In addition, we used 6 former German MFP landing barges - type D and DM, which were found in the river shipyard in Głogów and then underwent a thorough renovation.
The photo shows one of these landing craft - type DM as ODD-6.

They served in the landing craft flotilla along with American landing craft purchased from surplus in 1950.
These were:
11 LCT mk V landing craft, numbers BDS-50 - BDS-60,
3 small landing craft type LCM mk III - numbers BDM-100 - BDM-102
In September 1953, the flotilla was joined by 6 LCP type landing boats.
The photo shows one of such ships.

I thought I would remind you about these ships, although the American ones are known, the Italian landing barge and the German landing barges are a bit forgotten.
In addition, sturmboot 42s were in use - we had 4 of them.
There was also an Sz-1 motorboat which could have been built on the Sturmboot 42 hull, but with different engines.
There was also a used motorboat from Gneisenau.
I don't want to write about smaller ships now.

 

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As an addition to the previous post, I will attach a photo of ORP Mors.
It was an YMS type minesweeper, 3 ships of this type were purchased and entered the service of the Polish Navy in 1948, they were named ORP Delfin (DF) later number T-31, ORP Foka (FK) then number T-32, and ORP Mors (MS) then number T-33.
They were rearmed with one 85 mm gun.
The fourth unit of this type entered civil service as Zodiak.

The photo shows ORP Mors with armament, I am giving it as a illustrative photo of these ships with armament.