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ORP Garland |
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Scale 1:200 |
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Author: Grzegorz
Nowak |
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File Size: 46.5Mb |
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ORP Garland
G-Class British destroyer in Polish
Navy service
May 1942
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Model # 041 |
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Price $12.00 |
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Technical data: |
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Launched |
October 24, 1935 |
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Displacement |
2000 tons standard
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Length |
98.5m |
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Beam |
10.10m |
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Machinery |
Two sets of Parsons geared turbines; 34,000 hp = 35.5 knots |
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Armament |
Main battery - three 120mm guns (3 x I) |
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AAA - one - 76mm, eight - 12.7mm (2 x 4), two - 20 mm (2 x I) |
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Torpedoes - four
- 533mm (1 x IV) tubes, one depth charge launcher |
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Complement |
145 officers and
enlisted |
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On May 3, 1940 HMS Garland
was transferred to Polish Navy as a replacement for the ships lost
during the first year of the war. It was originally planned to
rename the ship, but Polish Navy, recognizing the fact that the name
Garland is one of the oldest ship names in the Royal Navy, as a
courtesy decided to keep the original name.
Since the ship was used mostly in
escort duties, she was rearmed to better serve that purpose. She
received more anti-air and anti-submarine armament at the cost of one
main artillery gun.
On June 28, 1940 ORP Garland took part in sinking of an Italian
destroyer Espero during the battle at Calabria. The most
notable event in the ORP Garland's history is the escort of
convoy PQ-16 to Murmansk between May 25-27, 1942 when she fought all
day against enemy aircraft losing 25 sailors killed and 43 wounded.
During her service in the Polish Navy, ORP Garland sailed
217,000 nautical miles, sunk German U-boat and damged additional two,
shot down three enemy planes and participated in sinking of two
Italian warships, she also damaged three other ships.
ORP Garland is one of the only two G-class destroyers to
survive the war.
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Model built and photographed by Miroslaw Stawiak, used with
permission.
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