ORP Sęp (1938)
Service
- as ORP Sęp16 April 1939 — 15 September 19692,193 days of the war
- Name
- ORP Sęp
- Pennant / hull number
- 1938
- Builder
- Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij
- Laid down
- November 1936
- Launched
- 17 October 1938
- Commissioned
- 16 April 1939
- Decommissioned
- 15 September 1969
- Fate
- Scrapped in 1972 (1972)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,083 long tons (1,100 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,414 long tons (1,437 t)
- Length
- 84 m (275.6 ft)
- Beam
- 6.7 m (22 ft)
- Draught
- 4.2 m (13.8 ft)
- Speed
- 19.4 knots (35.9 km/h, 22.3 mph)
- Complement
- 50
- Main gun
- 105 mm (4.1 in)
ORP Sęp was a Orzeł-class submarine in service with the Polish Navy. She carried the pennant number 1938. Her keel was laid at Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij in November 1936. Launched on 17 October 1938, she entered service on 16 April 1939.
Two ships of the class were built. The class followed the Wilk-class submarine.
The boat displaced 1,083 long tons surfaced and 1,414 long tons submerged. She measured 84 m (276 ft) long with a beam of 6.7 m (22 ft). Her designed speed was 19.4 knots, and she carried a complement of 50.
Her main battery was one 105 mm (4.1 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 15 September 1969.
She was broken up for scrap in 1972.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Armament
- 1 × 105 mm
- 2 × 40 mm AA guns
- 8 × 533 mm torpedo tubes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from ORP Sęp (1938) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Ej angiven — Pressbild i tidningen "Sveriges Flotta" November 1939 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons