ORP Warszawa (1920)
{{other ships|ORP Warszawa}}
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image= FlotyllaPinsk.jpg | Ship caption= River monitors Pińsk (left), Warszawa (centre) and Toruń (right), with the command vessel Generał Sikorski (extreme right) }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country= Poland | Ship flag= File:Naval Ensign of Poland.svg | Ship name= ORP Warszawa | Ship owner= | Ship namesake= Warsaw | Ship ordered= | Ship builder= Gdansk Shipyard | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= 30 April 1920 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= 13 August 1920 | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship fate=Scuttled 18 September 1939 | Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header=title | Ship country= Soviet Union | Ship flag= File:Naval Ensign of the Soviet Union (1935-1950).svg | Ship name= Vitebsk (Витебск) | Ship owner= | Ship namesake= Vitebsk | Ship ordered= | Ship builder= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship acquired= Raised in October 1939 | Ship commissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship fate=*Scuttled 18 September 1941
| Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class= | Ship displacement= 110 - 112½ tons | Ship length= {{convert|34.5|m|ft|abbr=on|1}} | Ship beam= {{convert|5.5|m|ft|abbr=on|1}} | Ship draught= {{convert|0.8|m|ft|abbr=on|1}} | Ship power=*Until 1937: {{convert|180|hp|kW|abbr=on}}
| Ship propulsion=*Until 1937:
| Ship speed= 8.6 kn (16 km/h) | Ship range= | Ship complement= 44 | Ship armament=*1920 - 1930
| Ship armour=*Bulwarks - {{convert|5|mm|in|abbr=on|1}}
| Ship notes= }} |
ORP Warszawa was an armed river monitor of the Riverine Flotilla of the Polish Navy, launched in 1920 and scuttled in 1939. She was raised by the Soviets, scuttled again in 1941, raised for the last time in 1944 and then scrapped.
Construction
Warszawa was built in 1920 in the Free City of Danzig for the Polish Navy.{{in lang|ru}} [http://ussrfleet.1939-45.ru/mon_bob.php Мониторы тип «Бобруйск» (Bobruisk-class monitors)] at ВМФ, Вторая Мировая Война (Soviet Navy, Second World War website), retrieved 2011-08-08 Initially she was armed with two 105 mm guns and five machine guns, and by the late 1930s she carried three 75 mm guns and four machine guns.
Invasion of Poland
Like all of the ships of the Riverine Flotilla of the Polish Navy in Pinsk, she was not used in combat during the German Invasion of Poland. After the Soviet invasion of Poland, she was scuttled on the Pripyat River on 18 September 1939, because of the impossibility of withdrawal.
Soviet service
She was raised on 11 October 1939 by the Soviets, towed to Factory No 300 in Kiev, repaired and commissioned as Vitebsk (Витебск). She served in the Dnepr Flotilla, then the Pinsk Flotilla. From July 1941 she fought against the Germans on the Berezina, Desna and Dnieper Rivers, in the defence of Kiev. Because of the Soviet retreat, she was scuttled on 18 September 1941 near Kiev.
Fate
References
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- {{in lang|ru}} S.S. Berezhnoy, Trofyei i reparacyi VMF SSSR, Yakutsk 1994
- {{cite book |title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946 |editor1-first=Roger |editor1-last=Chesneau |year=1980 |publisher=Conway Maritime Press |location=London |isbn=0-85177-146-7 }}
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Category:Ships of the Polish Navy
Category:World War II monitors
Category:World War II naval ships of Poland
Category:Maritime incidents in September 1939