ORP Heweliusz

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ORP Heweliusz and fleet tanker ORP Bałtyk
ORP Heweliusz and fleet tanker ORP Bałtyk
Career (Poland) Naval Ensign of Poland
Name: ORP Heweliusz
Laid down: March 11, 1981
Launched: September 11, 1981
Commissioned: November 27, 1982
General characteristics
Length: 61.6 m (202 ft 1 in)
Beam: 10.8 m (35 ft 5 in)
Draft: 3.3 m (10 ft 10 in)
Speed: 13.7 knots (25.4 km/h/15.8 mph)
Complement: 49
Armament: none

ORP Heweliusz is a survey ship of the Polish Navy of the Projekt 874 class, known as modified Finik class in NATO code. She was launched on September 11, 1981 and commissioned on November 27, 1982.

The sister ship of ORP Arctowski is named after the astronomer Johannes Hevelius (Polish: Jan Heweliusz).

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