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    ORP Wicher, the lead ship of the Wicher class, was a Polish Navy destroyer. She saw combat in the Invasion of Poland, which began World War II in Europe...
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  • ORP Wicher (meaning "gale") was a name of two destroyers and one frigate of the Polish Navy: ORP Wicher (1928) commissioned in 1930 and sunk during the...
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  • of Vasily Berkov (1794–1870) Wicher-class destroyer ORP Wicher ORP Wicher (1928) ORP Wicher (1958) PZL.44 Wicher De Wicher, Kalenberg, Netherlands Witcher...
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    10, 1928, but it was not until July 8, 1930, when she was finally commissioned by the Polish Navy in the Cherbourg harbour. She was named ORP Wicher ("gale")...
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    Poland. 54°40′N 18°32′E / 54.667°N 18.533°E / 54.667; 18.533 (ORP Wicher (1928)) Wilhelm Gustloff  Germany 30 January 1945 A German cruise ship that...
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  • Destroyers ORP Błyskawica ORP Grom ORP Burza ORP Wicher ORP Garland ORP Orkan ORP Huragan ORP Piorun Escort destroyers ORP Krakowiak ORP Kujawiak ORP Ślązak...
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  • he commanded successively the torpedo boat ORP Krakowiak and the destroyer ORP Wicher. In 1930, the Wicher had been completed in a French shipyard at...
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    captain. Later, until 1933, he was the deputy commander of the destroyer ORP Wicher. He participated in a cruise to Madeira after Marshal Józef Piłsudski...
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    August Zaleski (category Senators of the Second Polish Republic (1928–1930))
    in the middle of the crisis in Danzig as he learned that the destroyer ORP Wicher had been sent into the harbour of the Free City of Danzig (modern Gdańsk...
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    Cruisers: ORP Dragon Dragoon – (British Danae class) ORP Conrad (British Danae class) Destroyers: ORP Wicher – Gale (Wicher class) sunk September 1939 ORP Burza...
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