Polish Navy — Submarine
1930
ORP Żbik (1930)
Service
- as ORP Żbik1932 — 19552,193 days of the war
Wilk-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- ORP Żbik
- Pennant / hull number
- 1930
- Namesake
- wildcat (in Polish)
- Laid down
- 1927
- Launched
- 14 June 1930
- 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 Żbik was a Wilk-class submarine in service with the Polish Navy. She carried the pennant number 1930. The ship was named after wildcat. Her keel was laid in 1927. She entered service in 1932, having been launched on 14 June 1930.
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 Żbik (1930) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons