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ORP Grom (1957)

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Name
  
ORP Grom

Laid down
  
1 March 1950

Fate
  
Scrapped, 1977

Launched
  
30 April 1950

Draft
  
3.9 m

Yard number
  
606

Decommissioned
  
1973

Construction started
  
1 March 1950

Length
  
120 m

Builder
  
Severnaya Verf

Acquired
  
from USSR, 15 December 1957

ORP Grom (English: Thunder) was a Project 30bis destroyer, sold to the People's Republic of Poland by the Soviet Union in 1957. She was built by the Zhdanov Shipyard in Leningrad and originally served in the Soviet Baltic Fleet as the Sposobnyy. She served together in the Polish Navy with her sister ship Wicher until 1973. The ship was scrapped in 1977.

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ORP Grom (1957) Wikipedia