Polish Navy — Destroyer class
Grom-class destroyer (1939)
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- Polish Navy
- Built
- 1939
- Preceded by
- Original Grom-class destroyer
- Builders
- Stocznia Marynarki Wojennej, Gdynia
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 2,045 long tons (2,078 t)
- Length
- 114 m (374 ft)
- Speed
- 39 knots (72.2 km/h, 44.9 mph)
- Complement
- 192
- Main gun
- 132 mm (5.2 in)
- Armament
- 7 × 120 mm Bofors wz. 34/36 guns
- 2 × double 40 mm AA Bofors guns
- 4 × double 13,2 mm AA Hotchkiss HMG
- 6 × 550 mm/533 mm torpedo tubes
- 2 × depth charge launchers, 20 wz. BH 200 bombs
- 44 naval mines
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORP Błyskawica | 1937 | Preserved | |
| ORP Grom (1936) | 1936 | 1937 | Sunk |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Grom-class destroyer (1939) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.