ORP Mewa

History

Poland
Name:	ORP Mewa
Builder:	Stocznia Gdyńska, Gdynia
General characteristics
Class and type:	Jaskółka-class minesweeper
Displacement:	183 t standard
Length:	45 m (147 ft 8 in)
Beam:	5.5 m (18 ft 1 in)
Propulsion:	2 x diesel engines, 1,050 hp (780 kW) total
Speed:	17.5 knots (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph)
Armament:	1 x 75 mm gun 2 x 7.92mm machine guns 20 mines or 20 depth charges

ORP Mewa was a Jaskółka-class minesweeper of the Polish Navy at the outset of World War II. Mewa participated in the defense of Poland during the German invasion of 1939. The ship was damaged on 1 September 1939 by a German bomb. On 3 September she was again hit by bombs and sank. The ship was later refloated and captured by the Germans. After the war, she returned to serve under the Polish flag.

A subsequent Projekt 206FM class minehunter was commissioned as Mewa (624) in 1967.

Jaskółka-class minesweepers

Jaskółka Rybitwa Mewa Czajka Czapla Żuraw

List of ships of the Polish Navy

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in September 1939

Shipwrecks	1 Sep: ORP Mazur 3 Sep: Athenia, ORP Gryf, ORP Mewa, ORP Wicher 6 Sep: ORP General Haller 8 Sep: HNLMS Willem van Ewijck 10 Sep: SS Magdapur, HMS Oxley 13 Sep: Davara, Pluton 14 Sep: Fanad Head, ORP Jaskółka, U-39 16 Sep: Rudyard Kipling 17 Sep: HMS Courageous 18 Sep: ORP Warszawa 20 Sep: U-27 23 Sep: Martti Ragnar 24 Sep: Phryné 29 Sep: HMS Caledonia 30 Sep: ORP Komendant Piłsudski

Other incidents	2 Sep: USS Pigeon 3 Sep: Hannah Böge 4 Sep: Christian Van Doornum 16 Sep: City of Paris 18 Sep: ORP Orzeł (incident) 22 Sep: Martti Ragnar Unknown date: HMS Vanquisher, HMS Walker

1938 1939 1940 August 1939 October 1939

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