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POLISH NAVY (POLAND)

SUBMARINES

modified ORZEŁ submarines

modified Orzeł

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
I     A C Augustin-Normand, Le Havre, France early 1939 --- --- suspended 4.1939
II     A C de la Loire, Nantes, France early 1939 --- --- suspended 4.1939
  

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

1175 / 1550

Length, m

86.9

Breadth, m

8.00

Draught, m

5.18

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Sulzer diesels / 2 BBC electric motors

Power, h. p.

5400 / 1200

Max speed, kts

20 / 9

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 7000(10) / 100(5)

Armament

2 x 2 - 40/56 Bofors M/36, 12 - 550 TT (4 bow, 4 stern, 2 x 2 trainable, 20, can use 533mm torpedoes)

Electronic equipment hydrophone

Complement

60

Diving depth operational, m 80

Project history: In 1938 two submarines of advanced Orzeł class were ordered in France, their basic difference from a prototype consisted in abandoning from main gun in favour of the second AA MG. Building was begun in 1939, but already 22.4.1939 ordered was cancelled. Incomplete hulls were destroyed by Germans on slipways.

Ivan Gogin, 2009-15