ORP Dzik (P52)
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS P52 |
| Builder | Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Laid down | 30 December 1941 |
| Launched | 11 October 1942 |
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 Poland | |
| Name | ORP Dzik |
| Commissioned | 16 December 1942 |
| Decommissioned | 25 July 1947 |
| Fate | Returned to Royal Navy, transferred to Danish Navy July 1947 |
 Denmark | |
| Name | HDMS U 1 |
| In service | July 1947 |
| Out of service | 1957 |
| Renamed | HDMS Springeren in 1950 |
| Fate | Returned to UK 1957 |
| General characteristics | |
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| Length | 58.22 m (191 ft) |
| Beam | 4.90 m (16 ft 1 in) |
| Draught | 4.62 m (15 ft 2 in) |
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| Complement | 37 |
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Wild Boar" in Polish.
24 May 1943 Near
depth charges
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21 Sep 1943 ORP Dzik fired torpedoes in Bastia harbour, Corsica, France and sank the German tanker Nikolaus (6397, former Greek Nikolaou Ourania) and the German tug Kraft (333 Gross Register Tonnage).
8 Jan 1944 ORP Dzik sank the Greek sailing vessel Eleni (200 Gross Register Tonnage) with gunfire off
Lesbos Island, Greece
in position 39.37N, 25.43E.
ORP Dzik destroyed or damaged 18 surface ships both
Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, and also engaged enemy surface ships with her 76 mm cannon three times and the crew boarded two enemy ships. The ORP Dzik earned the Jolly Roger
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In July 1946, the Polish Navy decommissioned her and returned her to the Royal Navy.
In 1947, the ship was transferred to the Royal Danish Navy. She sailed as HDMS U-1 and was later renamed to HDMS Springeren. She was returned to the Royal Navy in April 1958 and scrapped.
Commanding officers
- 28 August 1942 - November 1944: Capt. Bolesław Romanowski
- November 1944 - 31 December 1944: Lt. Tadeusz Noworol
- 1 January 1945 – 25 August 1946: Capt. Andrzej Kłopotowski
References
- "ORP Dzik (P 52)". uboat.net.
- "P32 to P222". British submarines of World War II. Archived from the original on 11 July 2007.
- ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Submarines, War Beneath The Waves, From 1776 To The Present Day, by Robert Hutchinson
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