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were also made to the stern, where a frame boom and a derrick with rollers were installed for lifting floats and anchors. Due to numerous modifications, the ship had poor stability; in 1938, it underwent a repair to improve this. As a result, the aft mast was removed, the motorboat was replaced with a six-oared onboard boat, and the funnel was reinforced and thickened as it frequently burned through. After these changes, stability tests conducted in the fall of 1938 showed that the ship's displacement with full equipment increased to 711 tons. After the repair, the ship was based at Hel, where it was to service the mine barges. By order of the
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also struck a mine and sank near a navigational buoy at the position 54.11 N/12.05 E. Twenty-one crew members perished, and seven were rescued. In the 1950s, the wreck was located at the position 54.16.10 N/12.07.00 E (approximately 8 km, 5.0 mi north of the sinking site) and subsequently
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flew over the port. The crews of the Polish ships fired anti-aircraft guns at them, but the fire was opened when the planes were out of range. Crates containing documents and equipment from the Fleet
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Commander F. Bomba, went to Antwerp, where they inspected the refurbished tugboat and conducted acceptance trials. After the trials, on November 4, the vessel, commanded by Belgian Captain Tielemans and partially crewed by Polish sailors, sailed to Gdynia. The final acceptance took place on
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in train cars. These were guns purchased by
England before the war, but they had not been sent. The guns were transported to Hel, where they strengthened the peninsula's air defense. During the operations, seven crew members were wounded. Before the capitulation of Hel,
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and to set up and dismantle parts of the torpedo range. After the reconstruction, the ship was classified as an auxiliary mine vessel. In the summer of 1935, cadets of the
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from the IV.(St)/LG 1 squadron. Despite the heavy bombing, the vessel did not suffer significant damage and repelled the attacks with machine guns.
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machine guns of 7.92 mm caliber mounted on naval bases on the superstructure. Additionally, two 37 mm caliber guns were positioned lower.
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of 8.56 m (28 ft 1 in) and a draft of 4.27 m (14 ft 0 in)). The displacement of the vessel was 655
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1323:"1945 März"
864:4 May 1938
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757:Lieutenant
720:naval mines
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630: [
595:Polish Navy
496:La Rochelle
490:The future
438:La Rochelle
434:Polish Navy
191:La Rochelle
42:(July 2024)
1354:1922 ships
1348:Categories
1333:2024-07-18
1081:References
1061:Warnemünde
960:Baltic Sea
948:Norrköping
763:June 1934
752:June 1934
623:submarines
613:destroyers
392:2 officers
387:Complement
363:Propulsion
1308:1426-529X
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1160:"Leopold"
1045:ORP
1002:Jastarnia
983:seaplanes
936:Ventspils
886:May 1939
878:May 1939
856:May 1938
579:Le Boxeur
563:motorboat
543:propeller
519:long tons
443:Le Boxeur
180:Le Boxeur
117:talk page
69:Consider
37:in Polish
1021:scuttled
829:Captain
782:Captain
583:Bordeaux
537:and one
474:scuttled
402:Armament
197:Launched
93:provide
1074:Rixhöft
1047:Rybitwa
1041:Rixhöft
1037:Rixhöft
940:Tallinn
932:Liepāja
646:Leopold
638:Oksywie
591:Antwerp
587:Leopold
479:Rixhöft
449:Leopold
432:of the
430:tugboat
333:Tugboat
302:Rixhöft
233:Leopold
222:Belgium
186:Builder
155:History
115:to the
97:in the
39:.
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1069:U-3519
1065:U-boat
1033:Gdańsk
956:Kalmar
928:Horten
716:KM 113
714:, and
712:KM 112
708:KM 111
704:barges
650:Gdynia
625:, the
620:-class
610:-class
608:Wicher
527:funnel
466:Gdynia
347:Length
256:Poland
169:France
1178:(PDF)
1163:(PDF)
1135:Morze
952:Visby
944:Narva
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669:Piast
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567:MG 08
547:knots
517:(645
507:draft
379:Range
371:Speed
355:Draft
60:DeepL
1304:ISSN
1275:ISBN
1250:ISBN
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615:and
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511:beam
492:Smok
458:mine
446:and
425:Smok
423:ORP
311:1940
298:Name
268:Smok
266:ORP
263:Name
242:1930
229:Name
208:1922
200:1922
176:Name
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53:View
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