Polish Navy — Destroyer
L115
ORP Krakowiak (L115)
Type II Hunt-class destroyer
Service
- as ORP Krakowiak28 May 1941 — 19461,558 days of the war
Type II Hunt-class destroyer
Particulars
- Name
- ORP Krakowiak
- Pennant / hull number
- L115
- Builder
- J.S. White, Cowes
- Laid down
- 5 December 1939
- Launched
- 4 December 1940
- Commissioned
- 28 May 1941
- Decommissioned
- 1946
- Fate
- Scrapped, 1959 (1959)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,050 long tons (1,067 t)
- Length
- 85 m (278.9 ft)
- Beam
- 9.5 m (31.2 ft)
- Draught
- 2.4 m (7.9 ft)
- Speed
- 27 knots (50 km/h, 31.1 mph)
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
ORP Krakowiak was a Type II Hunt-class destroyer built for the Polish Navy. She carried the pennant number L115. Her keel was laid at J.S. White, Cowes on 5 December 1939. Launched on 4 December 1940, she entered service on 28 May 1941.
Displacement was 1,050 long tons. She measured 85 m (279 ft) long with a beam of 9.5 m (31 ft). Her designed speed was 27 knots.
Her main battery was six 102 mm (4.0 in) guns in three twin mountings.
She was in commission for 1,558 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1946.
She was broken up for scrap in 1959.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Armament
- 3 × twin 102 mm universal Mk XVI guns
- 1 × quadruple 2 pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 4 × 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns
- 2 × Lewis machine guns
- 2 × depth charge launchers
- 2 × Thornycroft depth charge mortars
- 110 depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from ORP Krakowiak (L115) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — naval history web — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons