ORP Piorun

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

ORP Piorun (G65), an N-class destroyer (formerly HMS Nerissa) transferred to the free Polish Navy based in Britain in October 1940. During the war she saw several engagements with U-boats and took part in the final battle of Bismarck. She was transferred back to the Royal Navy after the end of the war.
ORP Piorun (1994), an Orkan-class fast attack craft built in the German Democratic Republic for its navy and originally named Project 660. After German reunification the unfinished hulls were bought by the Polish Navy and completed by Northern Shipyard in Gdańsk. Piorun is currently in service.

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ORP Grom is an Orkan-class fast attack craft. It is the sister ship of Orkan and Piorun.

ORP Piorun was an N-class destroyer operated by the Polish Navy in World War II. The word piorun is Polish for "Thunderbolt". Ordered by the Royal Navy in 1939, the ship was laid down as HMS Nerissa before being loaned to the Poles in October 1940 while still under construction.

ORP Gryf was a school and hospital ship of the Polish Navy, a second vessel to bear that name. She was built in German-occupied Denmark as a cargo ship in 1944, shortly before the end of World War II and initially named Irene Oldendorff. Soon after the capitulation of Germany, she was taken by the United Kingdom, passed to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Contees, but in 1946 it was given to the Soviet Union as part of that country's war reparations from Germany. Renamed Omsk (Омск), she served in the Soviet merchant fleet until 1947 when she was sold to Poland.

ORP Dzik (Boar) was a U-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness. She was laid down on 30 December 1941 as P-52 for the Royal Navy but was transferred to the Polish Navy during construction. Launched on 11 November 1942, ORP Dzik was commissioned into the Polish Navy on 12 December 1942. Her name meant "Wild Boar" in Polish.

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

HMS Quail was a Q-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She served during the Second World War but her career lasted less than a year before she was damaged by a mine and withdrawn from active service.

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

Three vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Nerissa:

The Battle of Ushant, also known as the Battle of Brittany, occurred on the early morning of 9 June 1944 and was an engagement between German and Allied destroyer flotillas off the coast of Brittany. The action came shortly after the initial Allied landings in Normandy. After a confused engagement during the night the Allies sank one of the German destroyers and forced another ashore, where she was wrecked.

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 :

ORP Kaszub may refer to one of several ships of the Polish Navy:

The Polish Navy is the naval branch of the Polish Armed Forces. The Polish Navy consists of 46 ships and about 12,000 commissioned and enlisted personnel. The traditional ship prefix in the Polish Navy is ORP.

The Orkan class or projekt 660 is series of three fast attack craft of the Polish Navy, in service since 1992.

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 :

ORP Orkan is an Orkan-class fast attack craft and sister ship of Grom and Piorun.

ORP Piorun is an Orkan-class fast attack craft and sister ship of Grom and Orkan.

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