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Dar PomorzaThe Dar Pomorza ("the gift of Pomerania") is a Polish sailing frigate, currently preserved in Gdynia as a museum ship. The ship was built in 1909 by Blohm & Voss and in 1910. Since 1920 she was a the training ship for the Polish Naval Academy in Gdynia. In 1982 she was decommissioned and replaced by the Dar Młodzieży as a training ship. Since 1983 she has been a museum ship in Gdynia. - More information
Dar MłodzieżyDar Młodzieży ("the gift of youth") is a Polish sailing training ship launched in 1982 in the Gdańsk shipyard, Poland. Its home port is Gdynia (Poland). It has replaced the Dar
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Iskra II
Polish Navy training ship called Iskra (Spark), built in 1981 - 1982. Sail plan: barquentine. It was named after the Polish sail training vessel Iskra (I), used until 1977. The home port is Gdynia.
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M/S Dragon
Cruise ship, stylized like a seventeenth-century galleon, build on the body of a military tug. Designed for tourist cruises on the high seas. Length 45 m, width 8.20 m. Gross tonnage: 299 GT. Capacity 240 passengers. Launched in 2006. In service for cruises between the Polish seaports. Owner: Ustka Tours in Ustka, Poland.
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ORP Orkan
ORP Orkan was built in Govan, Scotland. She was originally commissioned into the Royal Navy and was transferred to the free Polish Navy based in Britain in December 1942. First the Orkan served in the Arctic. In 1943, the destroyer escorted the convoys
in the North Atlantic. In July 1943, she transferred the body of thePolish Supreme Chief General Władysław Sikorski from Gibraltar to England.
On 8 October 1943, the Orkan was hit by a torpedo from a German submarine while escorting a convoy
and sank within a few minutes. One officer and 43 ratings were rescued by HMS Musketeer.More information
