ORP Wicher (1958)

For other ships with the same name, see ORP Wicher and Soviet destroyer Skory.

ORP Wicher (English: Whirlwind) was a Project 30bis destroyer, transferred to the People's Republic of Poland from the Soviet Union in 1958.^[2] She was built by the Zhdanov shipyard in Leningrad and originally commissioned into the Soviet Baltic Fleet as the Skoryy ("Rapid") in 1951, and transferred to Poland in 1958 together with a second ship, ORP Grom.^[1] The ship was decommissioned in 1975, and scrapped.^[1] One of the 130 mm guns is preserved in the Polish Navy Museum in Gdynia.^[3] Remainings of the scrapped vessel were sunk at the beach in Hel as breakwater, where they remain to this day.

ORP Wicher of the Polish Navy
History
PRL
Name	ORP Wicher
Builder	Zhdanov Shipyard, Leningrad[1]
Yard number	603[1]
Laid down	15 February 1949[1]
Launched	14 August 1949[1]
Acquired	from USSR, 29 June 1958[2]
Decommissioned	1975[1]
Fate	Scrapped; remainings sunk in Hel as breakwater
General characteristics
Class & type	Project 30bis destroyer
Displacement	2,316 long tons (2,353 t) standard, 3,066 long tons (3,115 t) full load
Length	120.5 m (395 ft 4 in)
Beam	12 m (39 ft 4 in)
Draught	3.9 m (12 ft 10 in)
Propulsion	2 shaft geared turbines, 3 boilers, 60,000 shp (45,000 kW)
Speed	36.5 knots (67.6 km/h; 42.0 mph)
Range	4,080 nautical miles (7,560 km; 4,700 mi) at 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Complement	286
Armament	2 × 130 mm (5.1 in) B13 guns in a B-2LM turret 1 × twin 85 mm (3.3 in) AA gun 7 × single 37 mm (1.5 in) AA guns 2 × quintuple 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes 60 mines or 52 depth charges

The ship's beached wreck in Hel