Polish Navy — Submarine
1929
ORP Ryś (1929)
Service
- as ORP Ryś1932 — 19552,193 days of the war
Wilk-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- ORP Ryś
- Pennant / hull number
- 1929
- Namesake
- lynx (in Polish)
- Laid down
- 1927
- Launched
- 22 April 1929
- Commissioned
- 1932
- Decommissioned
- 1955
- Fate
- Scrapped, 1956 (1956)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 980 long tons (996 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,250 long tons (1,270 t)
- Length
- 78.5 m (257.5 ft)
- Beam
- 5.9 m (19.4 ft)
- Draught
- 4.2 m (13.8 ft)
- Speed
- 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h, 16.7 mph)
- Range
- 3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
- Complement
- 46
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
ORP Ryś was a Wilk-class submarine of the Polish Navy. She carried the pennant number 1929. She was named for lynx. Her keel was laid in 1927. She entered service in 1932, having been launched on 22 April 1929.
Three ships of the class were built.
The boat displaced 980 long tons surfaced and 1,250 long tons submerged. She measured 78.5 m (258 ft) long with a beam of 5.9 m (19 ft). Her designed speed was 14.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 46.
Her main battery was one 100 mm (3.9 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1955.
She was broken up for scrap in 1956.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Diesel-Vickers diesel: 1800 hp
- electric engines: 1200 hp
- Armament
- 1 × 100 mm deck gun
- 2 × 13.2 mm deck anti-aircraft heavy machine guns (mounted in place of 40 mm gun from 1935 onwards)
- 4 × 550 mm torpedo tubes, bow
- 2 × 550 mm (twin) rotating torpedo tubes, midship
- 16 × 550 mm torpedoes (6 in tubes and 10 reloads)
- 40 × mines
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from ORP Ryś (1929) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Leonard Durczykiewicz — National Library of Poland — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons