ORP Grom

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Three ships of the Polish Navy have been named ORP Grom (Polish : thunder):

ORP Grom (1936) was a Grom-class destroyer launched in 1936 and sunk near Narvik in 1940.
ORP Grom (1957) was a Project 30bis destroyer received from the USSR in 1957 and decommissioned in 1973.
ORP Grom (1995) is an Orkan-class fast attack craft launched in 1995 and currently serving with the Polish Navy.

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ORP Błyskawica is a Grom-class destroyer which served in the Polish Navy during World War II. She is the only Polish Navy ship to have been decorated with the Virtuti Militari, Poland's highest military order for gallantry, and in 2012 was given the Pro Memoria Medal. Błyskawica is preserved as a museum ship in Gdynia and is the oldest preserved destroyer in the world. Błyskawica is moored next to the Dar Pomorza.

The Grom-class destroyers were two destroyers, built for the Polish Navy by the British company of J. Samuel White, Cowes. They were laid down in 1935 and commissioned in 1937. The two Groms were some of the fastest and most heavily armed destroyers of World War II.

J. Samuel White was a British shipbuilding firm based in Cowes, taking its name from John Samuel White (1838–1915).

ORP Grom was the lead ship of her class of destroyers serving in the Polish Navy during World War II. She was named after the Polish word for Thunderbolt, while her sister ship ORP Błyskawica translates to lightning.

ORP Grom was a Project 30bis destroyer, sold to the People's Republic of Poland by the Soviet Union in 1957. She was built by the Zhdanov Shipyard in Leningrad and originally served in the Soviet Baltic Fleet as the Sposobnyy. She served together in the Polish Navy with her sister ship Wicher until 1973. The ship was scrapped in 1977. Her remainings together with the Wicher were sunk in Hel as breakwaters, where they remain to this day.

Two ships of the Polish Navy have been named ORP Piorun :

ORP Burza was a Wicher-class destroyer of the Polish Navy which saw action in World War II.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peking Plan</span> Evacuation of Polish navy ships (1939)

The Peking Plan was an operation in which three destroyers of the Polish Navy, the Burza, Błyskawica, and Grom, were evacuated to the United Kingdom in late August and early September 1939. They were ordered to travel to British ports and assist the British Royal Navy in the event of a war with Nazi Germany. The plan was successful and allowed the ships to avoid certain destruction or capture in the German invasion.

Three ships of the Polish Navy have been named ORP Warszawa, after the capital city of Warsaw:

The Skory class were the first destroyers built for the Soviet Navy after World War II. Seventy (70) ships were built between 1949 and 1953. The Soviet designation was Project 30bis.

There were several ships of the Polish Navy bearing the name of ORP Ślązak :

Three ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Oakley:

Two ships of the Polish Navy have borne the name ORP Krakowiak:

Three ships of the Polish Navy have been named ORP Orkan :

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Three warships of the Polish Navy have borne the name ORP Gryf, named after the Polish word for griffon:

One ship and three submarines of the Polish Navy have been named ORP Sokół :

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