Polish Naval Detachment in Great Britain: 1939-1947

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Battleships (0+1)

OF Paris
Laid down: 10 XI 1911, Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne
Launched: 28 IX 1912
Completed: 1 VIII 1914 (planned 15 VII 1940 - Polish Navy)
Fate: scrapped I 1956
Cruisers (2)

ORP Dragon
Laid down: Scott's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd , Greencock, 24 I 1917
Launched: 29 XII 1917
Completed: 16 VIII 1918 (15 I 1943 - Polish Navy)
Fate: constructive total loss 8 VII 1944

ORP Conrad
Laid down: Armstrong, Newcastle, 1 XII 1916
Launched: 26 I 1918
Completed: 22 VI 1918 (4 X 1944 - Polish Navy)
Fate: scrapped 27 III 1948
Destroyers (6)

ORP Burza
Laid down: Chantiers Naval Francais, Caen, 1 XI 1927
Launched: 16 IV 1929
Completed: 10 VIII 1932
Fate: scrapped IX 1977

ORP Grom
Laid down: Samuel White, Cowes, 17 VII 1935
Launched: 27 VII 1936
Completed: 11 V 1937
Fate: sunk 4 V 1940 by German bomber

ORP Blyskawica
Laid down: Samuel White, Cowes, IX 1935
Launched: 1 X 1936
Completed: 25 XI 1937
Fate: museum ships since 1 V 1976

OF Ouragan
Laid down: Chantiers Naval Francais, Caen, 4 VIII 1923
Launched: 6 XII 1924
Completed: I 1927 (18 VII 1940 - Polish Navy)
Fate: scrapped 7 IV 1949

ORP Piorun
Laid down: John Brown, Clydebank, 26 VII 1939
Launched: 7 V 1940
Completed: 4 XI 1940 (5 XI 1940 - Polish Navy)
Fate: stricken 1955

ORP Orkan (II)
Laid down: Fairfield S B & Engineering, Glasgow, 7 XII 1939
Launched: 2 III 1942
Completed: 5 VII 1942 (18 XI 1942 - Polish Navy)
Fate: sunk 8 X 1943 by German U 378
Small Destroyers (4)

ORP Garland
Laid down: Fairfield S B & Engineering, Glasgow, 22 VIII 1934
Launched: 24 X 1935
Completed: 3 III 1936 (3 V 1940 - Polish Navy)
Fate: stricken 1964

ORP Krakowiak (II)
Laid down: Samuel White, Cowes, 5 XII 1939
Launched: 4 XII 1940
Completed: 28 V 1941 (20 IV 1941 - Polish Navy)
Fate: scrapped 11 III 1959

ORP Kujawiak (II)
Laid down: Vickers-Armstrongs, Tyne, 22 XI 1939
Launched: 30 X 1940
Completed: 17 VI 1941 (30 V 1941 - Polish Navy)
Fate: sunk 16 VI 1942 on mines

ORP Slazak (III)
Laid down: Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn, 25 V 1940
Launched: 23 VII 1941
Completed: 9 V 1942 (17 IV 1942 - Polish Navy)
Fate: stricken 1979
Submarines (5)

ORP Wilk
Laid down: Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand, La Havre, 1927
Launched: 12 IV 1929
Completed: 31 X 1931
Fate: scrapped 1951

ORP Orzel
Laid down: N V Koninklijke Maatschappij 'De Schelde', Scheebsbouw -en Werktuigenfabriek, Vlissingen, 17 VIII 1936
Launched: 15 I 1938
Completed: 2 II 1939
Fate: lost in V 1940

ORP Sokol (II)
Laid down: Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness, 9 XII 1939
Launched: 30 IX 1940
Completed: 28 I 1941 (20 IV 1941 - Polish Navy)
Fate: scrapped IX 1949

ORP Jastrzab
Laid down: Bethlehem Steel Co , Quincy, 26 X 1918
Launched: 29 V 1922
Completed: 9 VII 1922 (4 XI 1941 - Polish Navy)
Fate: sunk 2 V 1942 by friendly fire

ORP Dzik
Laid down: Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness, 30 XII 1941
Launched: 11 X 1942
Completed: 12 XII 1942 (28 VIII 1942 - Polish Navy)
Fate: scrapped IV 1958
Submarine chasers (2)

Ch 11
Laid down: Societe des Forges et Chantiers de la Mediterranean, Granville, 1938
Launched: 1939
Completed: IV 1940 (19 VII 1940 - Polish Navy)
Fate: stricken 23 XI 1948

Ch 15
Laid down: Chantier Francaise Worms, Le Trait, 1932
Launched:
Completed: 1934 (19 VII 1940 - Polish Navy)
Fate: stricken 1949
Motor Gun and Torpedo Boats (10)

S 1
Laid down: Samuel White, Cowes, 1939
Launched: 22 VIII 1940
Completed: 31 I 1941 (17 VIII 1940 - Polish Navy)
Fate: scrapped III 1947

S 2
Laid down: British Power Boat, Hythe, 1939
Launched:
Completed: 19 VII 1940 (28 VI 1940 - Polish Navy)
Fate: scrapped 1947

S 3
Laid down: British Power Boat, Hythe, 1939
Launched:
Completed: 28 VI 1940 (28 VI 1940 - Polish Navy)
Fate: sold 1945

S 4
Laid down: British Power Boat, Hythe, XI 1940
Launched: 1941
Completed: 7 XII 1942 (5 VII 1943 - Polish Navy)
Fate: sold 1945

S 5
Laid down: Samuel White, Cowes, 1943
Launched:  
Completed:   (3 V 1944 - Polish Navy)
Fate: sold 1945

S 6
Laid down: Samuel White, Cowes, 1943
Launched:  
Completed:   (10 VII 1944 - Polish Navy)
Fate: sold 1945

S 7
Laid down: Samuel White, Cowes, 1943
Launched:  
Completed:   (30 VIII 1944 - Polish Navy)
Fate: sold 1945

S 8
Laid down: Samuel White, Cowes, 1943
Launched:  
Completed:   (19 IX 1944 - Polish Navy)
Fate: sold 1945

S 9
Laid down: Samuel White, Cowes, 1943
Launched:  
Completed:   (26 X 1944 - Polish Navy)
Fate: sold 1945

S 10
Laid down: Samuel White, Cowes, 1943
Launched:  
Completed:   (31 X 1944 - Polish Navy)
Fate: sold 1945
Auxiliary vessels (5)

ORP Wilja
Laid down: Flensburge Schiffsbau Geselschaft, 9 1905
Launched: 1906
Completed: 1906 (8 VIII 1925 - Polish Navy)
Fate: constructive total loss 8 VI 1944

ORP Iskra
Laid down: Müller, Foxhol
Launched: 19 VI 1917
Completed: (II 1928 - Polish Navy)
Fate: scrapped 31 XII 1977

ORP Gdynia
Laid down: Barclay, Curle & Co, Glasgow
Launched:
Completed: 1915 (10 XI 1939 - Polish Navy)
Fate: scrapped 1950

OF Medoc
Laid down: Worms, Rouen
Launched:
Completed: 1930 (18 VII 1940 - Polish Navy)
Fate: sunk 26 XI 1940 by German torpedo plane

OF Pomerol
Laid down: L & W Henderson, Glasgow
Launched:
Completed: 1930 (18 VII 1940 - Polish Navy)
Fate: