ORP Komendant Piłsudski

This article is about the Polish gunboat. For other uses, see Pilsudski (disambiguation).

ORP Komendant Piłsudski was a Filin-class guard ship from the interwar period^[1] originally built at Ab Crichton in Turku, Finland, for the Imperial Russian Navy. She was bought by the Polish Navy in 1920 and served until scuttled in the port of Hel during the Invasion of Poland on September 30, 1939.

ORP Komendant Piłsudski
History
Imperial Russia
Builder	Ab Crichton Turku, Finland
Launched	January 24, 1917
Fate	Sold to Poland, 1920
Poland
Name	ORP Komendant Piłsudski
Acquired	1921
Fate	Sunk, September 30, 1939
Nazi Germany
Name	Heisternest (M 3109)
Acquired	Raised after September 30, 1939
Fate	Sunk, September 16, 1943
General characteristics
Class and type	Filin-class guard ship
Displacement	342 tons
Length	55 m (180 ft 5 in)
Beam	7 m (23 ft 0 in)
Draft	2.9 m (9 ft 6 in)
Speed	14.5 knots (26.9 km/h; 16.7 mph)
Complement	60
Armament	2 × 3 in (76 mm) guns 4 × machine guns 30 × mines

Raised by the Germans, she was subsequently renamed Heisternest (M 3109) and served in the Kriegsmarine. Heisternest was sunk in a U.S. bomb raid in Nantes, France, on September 16, 1943.