ORP Warszawa (1988)
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For other ships with the same name, see ORP Warszawa and Soviet destroyer Smely.
ORP Warszawa[lower-alpha 1] (formerly the Soviet Smely) was a large guided missile destroyer of the Polish Navy, one of the last ships of the modified Kashin class.[1]
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ORP Warszawa in 2004, on her way to the reserve hangar | |
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Soviet Union | |
Name | Smely (Russian: Смелый, Valiant) |
Builder | 61 Communards Shipyard |
Laid down | 15 November 1966 |
Launched | 6 February 1968 |
Commissioned | 27 December 1969 |
Decommissioned | 9 January 1988 |
Fate | Sold to Poland |
Poland | |
Name | ORP Warszawa |
Namesake | Warsaw |
Commissioned | 9 January 1988 |
Decommissioned | 5 December 2003 |
Stricken | 29 August 2005 |
Fate | Scrapped in the Gdańsk Shipyard in 2005 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Kashin-class destroyer |
Displacement | 3850 to 4950 |
Length | 146.20 m (479 ft 8 in) |
Beam | 15.80 m (51 ft 10 in) |
Draft | 4.80-6.80 m (22 ft 4 in) |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Complement | 320 |
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