ORP Heweliusz

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Name: ORP Heweliusz
Builder: Northern Shipyard, Gdańsk
Laid down: 11 March 1981
Launched: 11 September 1981
Commissioned: 27 November 1982
Identification:
Status: Active as of 2018
General characteristics
Class and type: Modified Finik class
Length: 61.6 m (202 ft 1 in)
Beam: 10.8 m (35 ft 5 in)
Draft: 3.3 m (10 ft 10 in)
Propulsion:
  • 2 engines Cegielski-Sulzer 6AL25/30 diesels, 1920 hp each
  • 2 auxiliary motors, 204 hp each
  • 2 shafts
  • bow thruster
Speed: 13.7 knots (25.4 km/h; 15.8 mph)
Complement: 49
Armament: none

ORP Heweliusz is a survey ship of the Polish Navy of the Projekt 874 class, known as modified Finik class in NATO code. She was launched on 11 September 1981 and commissioned on 27 November 1982. [1]

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The Polish Navy is a military branch of the Polish Armed Forces responsible for naval operations. The Polish Navy consists of 48 ships and about 12,000 commissioned and enlisted personnel. The traditional ship prefix in the Polish Navy is ORP.

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References

  1. ↑ "ORP Heweliusz, ORP Arctowski". Polish Navy. Retrieved 2013-04-28.


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