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ORP Orzeł was an Orzeł class submarine of the Polish Navy that served during WWII. Construction. Orzeł under construction at the Dutch shipyards in Vlissingen. Orzeł was laid down 14 August 1936 at the Dutch shipyard De Schelde, as the Job No. 205; launched on 15 January 1938, and commissioned on 2 February 1939.
Orzeł sank no enemy vessels during her journey from Estonia to the United Kingdom, but the Soviet government also blamed the Polish submarine and Estonia for the alleged loss of the Soviet 968 GRT tanker Metallist in Narva Bay in Estonian territorial waters on 26 September 1939.
Apr 19, 2015 · One such amazing tale is the story of a Polish submarine called the ‘Orzel’ (meaning ‘eagle’). There are many dimensions to this adventure story from WWII. First and foremost there is the successful escape from the iron fist of Nazi and Soviet controlled territories.
Aug 19, 1996 · The dramatic escape of the Polish submarine Orzel (Eagle) came 17 days after Adolf Hitler triggered World War II by invading Poland on September 1, 1939, and barely 20 months after her own launching. Built by public subscription, Orzel was one of two submersibles ordered from Dutch shipyards by Poland as part of an effort to create a navy ...
ORP Orzeł (1986) is a Kilo-class submarine commissioned by the Polish Navy in 1986 and currently in service with the 3rd Flotilla.
Mar 6, 2019 · In 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and the Polish Navy went to war. The astonishing escape and journey of the ORP Orzeł, a Polish submarine, was proof that a nation beaten on land was not beaten...
Apr 12, 2023 · The Orzel was a Polish submarine that escaped the 1939 Nazi Germany invasion of Poland at the beginning of World War Two.
Apr 4, 2022 · Poland’s ORP Orzeł was laid down in the Netherlands in August 1936 and commissioned just under three years later. In 1939, the submarine was docked in Oksywie when the Germans invaded Poland. Her initial orders were to attack the SMS Schleswig-Holstein during Operation Worek, but those plans changed as the situation in Poland rapidly deteriorated.
Apr 4, 2015 · The Orzel (Eagle) was lost without trace with 54 crew aboard somewhere in the North Sea in the early summer of 1940. She had been taking part in a wartime patrol for the Royal...
Oct 9, 2017 · Orzel means eagle in English. The boat, built in the Netherlands arrived in Poland on 7 Feb 1939. She famously escaped the German forces in Sept 1939 and reached England where she served during the war. ORP Orzel (Kmdr.ppor. (Cdr.) Jan Grudzinski) sailed on her seventh patrol on the 23rd of May.
