ORP Gryf (1936)
ORP Gryf
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 Poland
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| Name: | ORP Gryf |
| Namesake: | griffin |
| Ordered: | 11 May 1934 |
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| Laid down: | 14 November 1934 |
| Launched: | 29 November 1936 |
| Commissioned: | 27 February 1938 |
| Fate: | sunk, scrapped 3 September 1939 |
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| Displacement: | 2,227 t |
| Length: | 103.00 m (337 ft 11 in) |
| Beam: | 13.06 m (42 ft 10 in) |
| Draft: | 3.60 m (11 ft 10 in) |
| Propulsion: | two Sulzer 8SD48 engines, 6,000 hp (4,500 kW) |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Range: | 9,500 nmi (17,600 km; 10,900 mi) @ 14 knots (26 km/h/16 mph) |
| Complement: | 162 + 60 |
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Coordinates: 54°40′N 18°34′E / 54.667°N 18.567°E ORP Gryf (English: "Griffin") was a large Polish Navy minelayer, sunk during the 1939 German invasion of Poland. She was one of two large Polish ships that were not evacuated to Great Britain during Operation Peking prior to the outbreak of the Polish Defensive War (Wicher was the other). She was sunk in Hel harbour on 3 September 1939 during the opening stage of World War II.
Built from 1934 at French shipyard Chantiers et Ateliers A. Normand in Le Havre, she was launched in 1936. Built after a genuine French project to Polish specifications, she was intended as a large minelayer with an armament close to that of a destroyer. Powered by two Sulzer 8SD48 engines of 6,000 horsepower (4,500 kW) each, she was capable of 20 knots (37 km/h/23 mph), fast for its size. It also had quite a long range of roughly 9,500 nautical miles (17,600 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h). As the Polish Navy was small and no other state expressed a need for such a vessel, she remained the only ship of that class. Prior to the outbreak of World War II she also served as a school ship and could take on board up to 60 additional students and NCOs.
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