Polish Navy — Destroyer class
Wicher-class destroyer
Wicher class
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
- 1 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- Polish Navy
- In commission
- 1930–1960
- Succeeded by
- Grom-class destroyer
- Builders
- Chantiers Navals Français
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,540 long tons (1,565 t)
- Length
- 106.9 m (350.7 ft)
- Speed
- 33.8 knots (62.6 km/h, 38.9 mph)
- Complement
- 162
- Main gun
- 240 mm (9.4 in)
- Armament
- 4 × 130 mm guns
- 2 × 40 mm wz. 28 AA guns
- 2 × triple 550 mm/533 mm/450 mm torpedo tubes
- 2 × 240 mm Thornycroft depth charge launchers
- 2 × Wz BH200 depth charge launchers
- 60 × wz. 08 naval mines
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORP Burza | 1932 | Scrapped 1977 | |
| ORP Wicher (1928) | 1928 | 1930 | Sunk 1939 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Wicher-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.