DE - ORP Ślązak (L 26)

ORP Ślązak (L 26)
ORP Ślązak (L 26)
     
Title:
Name:
Slazak Slazak
Original title:
Original Name:
Ślązak
Category:
Category:
Escort destroyer Escort Destroyer
Class:
Class:
Hunt Type II
Codename:
Pennant Number:
L26
Shipyard:
Builder:
R. & W. Hawthorn Leslie & Co. Ltd, Hebburn
the Founding of a hernia:
Laid Down:
25.05.1940
Run on water:
Launched:
23.07.1941
entry into service:
Commissioned by:
09.05.1942 the date of the raising of the Polish flag (the construction started yet as HMS Bedale)
withdrawn from service:
Decommissioned:
28.09.1946 Handed back to the RN under the name HMS Bedale. In 1947 reclassified a frigate and converted to F126.
27.04.1953 entered service in the indian navy under the name Godavari (D92)
In 1979 ended his service, after running aground in 1976, and was scrapped.
Commander:
Commander:
30.04.1942-27.10.1942 Nałęcz-Tymiński, Romuald (Komandor podporucznik)
27.10.1942-18.04.1943 Wroński, Bohdan (Kapitan marynarki)
18.04.1943-13.09.1944 Nałęcz-Tymiński, Romuald (Komandor podporucznik)
13.09.1944-17.04.1945 Wroński, Bohdan (Komandor podporucznik)
17.04.1945-28.09.1946 Fara, Wacław (Kapitan marynarki)
Crew:
Crew:
8 officers + 160 sailors
Technical data:
Technical Data:
 
Standard displacement:
Standard Displacement:
1050 t 1033 long tons
Full displacement:
Full Load Displacement:
1635 t 1609 long tons
Length:
Length:
95,34 m 312ft 10in
Width:
Beam:
9,62 m 31ft 7in
Dive:
Draft:
3,89 m 12ft 9in
Armour:
Armour:
- -
Drive:
Propulsion:
 
Type:
Type:
2 x 3-drum boiler Yarrow Admiralty
2 x steam turbine Parsons
2 x 3-drums boiler Yarrow
2 x steam turbine Parsons
Performance:
Power:
14168.3 kW at ? rpm 19000 bhp at ? rpm
Bolts:
Propellers:
2
fuel Supply:
Fuel Load:
265 t 261 long tons
Feats:
Performance:
 
Speed:
Speed:
50 km/h 27 kt
Range:
Range:
6667.2 km at a speed of 25.9 km/h 3600 nm at a speed 14 kt
Armament and equipment:
Armament and Equipment:
 
Armament:
Armament:
6 x 102mm 4" QF HA Mk XVI (3xII)
4 x 40mm Mk VIII "pom-pom" (1xIV)
2 x 20mm Oerlikon (2xI)
2 x 7.7 mm Lewis
4 x thrower hlubiných bombs Thornycroft
2 x slip hlubinových bombs
(110 hlubiných bombs)
6 x 102mm 4" QF HA Mk XVI (3xII)
4 x 40mm Mk VIII "pom-pom" (1xIV)
2 x 20mm Oerlikon (2xI)
2 x 7.7 mm Lewis
4 x depth charge thrower Thornycroft
2 x depth charge chute
(110 dept charges)
Equipment:
Equipment:
radar Type 290
radar fire control Type 285
radar Type 271
Type 290
Type 285
Type 271
Carried aircraft:
Aircraft Carried:
no none
Note:
Note:
- -
Source:
Sources:
Okrety 03/2011, ISSN 1898-1518
www.navypedia.org
pl.wikipedia.org
.
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Brief history of ORP Ślązak




20.05.1941
- handover to the Polish Navy (PMW).


08.06.1942
- Assignment to the 15th Destroyer Fleet at Plymouth.


17.08.1942-18.08.1942
- Participation in Operation Jubilee - landing at Dieppe. She then remained at the scene of the fighting for over 22 hours, repelling many air attacks by German aircraft.
- Firing from the ship, four aircraft are shot down - two Dornier Do 217 and one each Messerschmitt Bf 109 and one Junkers Ju 88.
- They also take part in shelling German positions.
- During air attacks, it is damaged by a close bomb blast, killing three sailors and wounding twelve.
- The ship sailed under her own power to Portsmouth for repairs.


DD.MM.1943
- Service ORP Ślązak as convoy protection in the Mediterranean.


30.04.1944
- ORP Ślązak arrives in the Solent, where she joins the forces ready for the invasion.


06.06.1944
- Shelling of a German battery at Ouistreham.


08.06.1944-11.06.1944
- Patrolling off Normandy, repelling attacks by German ships, shelling German positions.


08.07.1944
- Transfer of wounded from cruiser ORP Dragon to hospital ship.


16.10.1944
- In recognition of the crew's fighting qualities, ORP Ślązak[/b:aaaa] is entrusted with escorting the British destroyer HMS Garth (L 20) with King George VI. on board from Dover to Ostend.


DD.MM.1944-DD.MM.1945
- Convoy escort in the English Channel.


27.05.1945
- ORP Ślązak and ORP Krakowiak arrive in Wilhelmshaven.


28.09.1946
- Handed back to the Royal Navy, renamed HMS Bedale (L 26).



Source:
ZASIECZNY, Andrzej: Broń Wojska Polskiego 1939-1945 (Lotnictwo-Marynarka Wojenna, Almapress Warszawa 2006, ISBN 83-7020-334-5)
PERTEK, Jerzy: Pod polską banderą wojenną na Zachodzie 1939-1945 (Warsaw 1957)
The Polish Army in World War II (Bellona Warsaw 1995, ISBN 83-11-08-357-6)
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ORP Ślązak


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ORP Ślązak
- známá fotografie ORP Ślązak po návratu z Operace Jubilee - vylodění u Dieppe. Na trupu jsou patrná poškození z boje.


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