Name ORP Wicher Laid down 15 February 1949 Fate Scrapped Launched 14 August 1949 Draft 3.9 m | Yard number 603 Decommissioned 1975 Construction started 15 February 1949 Length 120 m Builder Severnaya Verf | |
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Acquired from USSR, 29 June 1958 | ||
ORP Wicher (English: Whirlwind) was a Project 30bis destroyer, transferred to the People's Republic of Poland from the Soviet Union in 1958. She was built by the Zhdanov shipyard in Leningrad and originally commissioned into the Soviet Baltic Fleet as the Skoryy ("Rapid") in 1951, and transferred to Poland in 1958 together with a second ship, ORP Grom. The ship was decommissioned in 1975, and scrapped. One of the 130 mm guns is preserved in the Polish Navy Museum in Gdynia.
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