ORP Komendant Piłsudski
ORP Komendant Piłsudski
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History | |
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Imperial Russia | |
Builder | |
Launched | January 24, 1917 |
Fate | Sold to Poland, 1920 |
Poland | |
Name | ORP Komendant Piłsudski |
Acquired | 1921 |
Fate | Sunk, September 30, 1939 |
Nazi Germany | |
Name | Heisternest (M 3109) |
Acquired | Raised after September 30, 1939 |
Fate | Sunk, September 16, 1943 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Filin-class guard ship |
Displacement | 342 tons |
Length | 55 m (180 ft 5 in) |
Beam | 7 m (23 ft 0 in) |
Draft | 2.9 m (9 ft 6 in) |
Speed | 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h; 16.7 mph) |
Complement | 60 |
Armament |
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ORP Komendant Piłsudski was a
Invasion of Poland
on September 30, 1939.
Raised by the Germans, she was subsequently renamed Heisternest (M 3109) and served in the Kriegsmarine. Heisternest was sunk in a U.S. bomb raid in Nantes, France, on September 16, 1943.
References
- ISBN 0-85177-245-5.