Polish Navy — Destroyer
1936
ORP Grom (1936)
Service
- as ORP Grom11 May 1937 — 4 May 1940246 days of the war
Grom-class destroyer
Particulars
- Name
- ORP Grom
- Pennant / hull number
- 1936
- Namesake
- Thunderbolt
- Laid down
- 17 July 1935
- Launched
- 20 July 1936
- Commissioned
- 11 May 1937
- Fate
- Sunk in the Rombaken fjord near Narvik, Norway
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,975 long tons (2,007 t)
- Length
- 114 m (374 ft)
- Beam
- 11.3 m (37.1 ft)
- Draught
- 3.3 m (10.8 ft)
- Speed
- 39 knots (72.2 km/h, 44.9 mph)
- Range
- 3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
- Complement
- 192
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
ORP Grom was a Grom-class destroyer, operated by the Polish Navy. She carried the pennant number 1936. She was named for Thunderbolt. Her keel was laid on 17 July 1935. She entered service on 11 May 1937, having been launched on 20 July 1936.
Her class ran to two ships. The class followed the Original Grom-class destroyer.
She displaced 1,975 long tons. She measured 114 m (374 ft) long with a beam of 11.3 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 39 knots, and she carried a complement of 192.
Her main battery was seven 120 mm (4.7 in) guns.
She was in commission for 246 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Two Parsons' steam turbines of 54000 shp altogether, 3 boilers and 2 shafts
- 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
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from ORP Grom (1936) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Jerzy Pertek "Wielkie dni małej floty" (The Fine Days of a little Fleet) Warsaw 1976 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons