ORP Generał Kazimierz Pułaski
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 ORP Pułaski at high seas |
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Ordered | 27 February 1976 |
| Laid down | 17 July 1978 |
| Launched: | 24 March 1979 |
| Commissioned | USN: 9 May 1980 PN: 25 June 2000 |
| Decommissioned | USN: 15 March 2000 |
| Fate | |
| Current position | |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 3,650 tons |
| Length | 135.6 m |
| Beam | 13.7 m |
| Draft | 5.7 m |
| Speed | 29 knots (54 km/h) |
| Complement | 215 (17 officers and 198 enlisted) |
| Armament | 2 x double tube Anti-Submarine Torpedo mounts 1 x 76 mm Rapid Fire Dual Purpose Gun 1 x Vulcan Phalanx system 1 x Guided missile launching system with Standard Surface-to-Air Missiles Harpoon Surface-to-Surface Missiles 1 x ASW Kaman SH-2G Super Seasprite class helicopter |
The ORP Generał Kazimierz Pułaski (Pendant 272) is one of two Oliver Hazard Perry class guided-missile frigates in the Polish Navy. Formerly serving in the US Navy as USS Clark (FFG-11), after her transfer to Poland she was named for Kazimierz Pulaski, an American Revolutionary War hero in the United States and an independence hero in Poland.
The Clark was decommissioned and stricken on 15 March 2000. That same day, she was transferred to Poland. She is propelled by two General Electric LM-2500 gas turbines and two 350 horsepower (261 kW) electric drive auxiliary propulsion units.
She was renamed on 25 June 2000 in a ceremony attended by Madeleine Albright. Commander Marian Ambroziak was the first Polish Commanding Officer. Generał Kazimierz Pułaski is homeported in Gdynia (Oksywie), and has participated in numerous NATO exercises in the Baltic.
[edit] See also
- USS Pulaski for US Navy ships of this name.
[edit] External links
- NavySite.de
- Polish Navy official site about Perry class in English
- Polish Navy official web about ORP Pulaski in Polish
- ORP Gen. K. Pułaski in Gdynia in WikiMapia
