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ORP Żuraw
ORP ''Żuraw'' was a of the Polish Navy at the outset of World War II. Her name is the Polish word for the common crane. ''Żuraw'' participated in the defense of Poland during the Invasion of Poland, German invasion of 1939. The ship was surrendered to the Germans following the Polish capitulation and renamed ''Oxhöft'' as a naval trawler. Following the German surrender at the end of the war, the ship was returned to Poland under her old name. In 1947, ''Żuraw'' was modified for use as a hydrographical survey ship and renamed ''Kompas''. She was Ship breaking, broken up in 1981. Construction and career ''Żuraw'' was built at the Polish Navy Shipyard (Stocznia Marynarki Wojennej) in Gdynia as a ''Jaskkóła''-class warship minesweeper. She was named and launched on 22 September 1938. The ship was rushed into service and developed problems with the steering gear, possibly because the ship was incomplete when it was put into service. She was under the command of Capt Mjr. Rober ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gdynia
Gdynia ( ; ; german: Gdingen (currently), (1939–1945); csb, Gdiniô, , , ) is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With a population of 243,918, it is the List of cities in Poland, 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in the Pomeranian Voivodeship after Gdańsk. Gdynia is part of a conurbation with the spa town of Sopot, the city of Gdańsk, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the Tricity, Poland, Tricity (''Trójmiasto'') with around 1,000,000 inhabitants. Historically and culturally part of Kashubia and Pomerelia, Eastern Pomerania, Gdynia for centuries remained a small fishing village. By the 20th-century it attracted visitors as a seaside resort town. In 1926, Gdynia was granted city rights after which it enjoyed demographic and urban development, with a Modernist architecture, modernist cityscape. It became a major seaport city of Poland. In 1970, 1970 Polish protests, protests in and aroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
