ORP Mazur
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 ORP Mazur (c. 1935-1939) |
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| Career (Germany) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | V-105 |
| Builder: | Stettiner Maschinenbau A.G. Vulcan Stettin, Germany (Now Poland) |
| Laid down: | 1914 |
| Launched: | August 26, 1914 |
| Commissioned: | March 23, 1915 |
| Fate: | assigned to Brazil, 1919; later sold to Poland |
| Career (Poland) |  |
| Name: | ORP Mazur |
| Acquired: | 1921 |
| Decommissioned: | September 1, 1939 |
| Fate: | sunk |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 340 t, standard 421 t, full |
| Length: | 62.60 m (205 ft 5 in) |
| Beam: | 6.20 m (20 ft 4 in) |
| Draft: | 2.50 m (8 ft 2 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × Yarrow steam boilers 2 × AEG Vulcan steam turbines 5,500 horsepower (4,100 kW) |
| Speed: | 27 knots (50 km/h/31 mph) |
| Range: | 1,400 nmi (2,600 km/1,600 mi) @ 17 knots (31 km/h/20 mph) 640 nautical miles (1,190 km/740 mi) @ 20 knots (37 km/h/23 mph) |
| Complement: | 80 |
| Armament: | Germany, 1915–1919: 2 × 88 mm (3.5 in) guns 2 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo launchers Poland, 1922–30: 2 × 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 2 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo launchers Poland, 1931–35: 3 × Schneider 75 mm (3.0 in) guns 2 × machine guns Poland: 1935–39: 3 × Schneider 75 mm (3.0 in) guns 1 × Vickers 40 mm (1.6 in) AA gun 2 × machine guns |
ORP Mazur was a torpedo boat, then gunnery training ship of the Polish Navy. She was the former German torpedo boat V-105. She took part in the Polish Defensive War and was sunk by German bombers on September 1, 1939, one of the first two ships in the war.
[edit] History
She was built in 1914 by Stettiner Maschinenbau A.G. Vulcan in Stettin, Germany (now in Poland). She was begun for a Dutch Navy order, as Z-1 (along with three sisterships Z-2 - Z-4), but after the outbreak of World War I she was confiscated by Germany and commissioned as torpedo boat V-105. During a division of the German ships after the war in 1919, she was first assigned to Brasil, but then bought by a British dockyard and finally exchanged with Poland for other torpedo boat, A-69 in 1921. Poland also received her sistership, V-108 as well (later the Polish ORP Kaszub), and 4 smaller torpedo boats. V-105 was in a bad condition and after some repairs in Rosyth, in September 1921 she was towed from the Great Britain to Gdańsk.
[edit] Polish service
After a refit, she was commissioned in the Polish Navy on August 2, 1922 under the name ORP Mazur (named for the Mazurian people). She served in a Torpedo Boat Unit (Dywizjon Torpedowców) and wore identification letters MR. In 1931 she was rebuilt as a gunnery training ship, and her armament changed. From 1935 she underwent a modernization, during which the ship lost a second funnel, returning to service in 1937.
[edit] Demise
On the first day of World War II, September 1, 1939, ORP Mazur, commanded by Lieutenant Tadeusz Rutkowski, was in a port of Oksywie. At 2 pm she was at a pier, preparing to leave port, when she was attacked by German bombers. The ship suffered one close hit and a hit amidships, and sunk still firing at the German aircraft. About 40 of crew were killed. She was one of the first two ships sunk during the war (the other was an auxiliary ship ORP Nurek). The wreck was scrapped by the Germans.
