ORP Gryf (1976)

Shipyard Północna ( Northern Shipyard ), Gdańsk

3rd Flotilla 1976-2005

1750 ts

72.24 meters

11.9 meters

4.1 meters

56 plus 101 students

2 Zgoda - Sulzer diesel engines with 2,640 kW 6TD48 2 shafts with controllable pitch propellers

16.8 kn

7,800 sm

2 AK -230 double carriages 2 ZU- 23 -2M double carriages 2 salute cannons

ORP Wodnik

ORP Gryf (252 ) was a training ship, which until 2005 was of 1976 the Polish Navy in the service.

Name of the model was sunk at the beginning of World War II in the defense of Hel by German Stukas heavy minelayer ORP Gryf.

History

The ship was built on the north shipyard in Gdansk and was the hull number 2 of Wodnik class (Project 888). ORP Gryf was put into service on 29 September 1976 to replace the former school ship of the same name at the 3rd Flotilla in Gdynia.

During their period of service ORP Gryf visited ports on the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea and the Mediterranean.

Whereabouts

ORP Gryf was filed on May 31, 2005 out of service and first placed in Gdynia. In the summer of 2009, the ship was sold to a scrap yard to Gdańsk.