- ORP Ślązak (L26)
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For other ships of the same name, see ORP Ślązak.
Ślązak returning home after the Dieppe RaidCareer (UK) Name: HMS Bedale Career (Poland) Name: ORP Ślązak Commissioned: 17 April 1942 Decommissioned: 28 September 1946 Identification: Pennant number: L26 Career (India) = Name: INS Godavari Acquired: April 1959 Commissioned: 27 April 1953 Out of service: 1976, after running ashore in the Maldives Identification: Pennant number: D92 Fate: scrapped in 1979 General characteristics Displacement: 1050 tons standard
1490 tons full loadLength: 85.3 m Beam: 9.6 m Draught: 2.4/3.9 m Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h) Range: 2,500 nautical miles (4,600 km) at 20 knots (40 km/h)
3,700 nautical miles (6,900 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h)Complement: 160 Armament: 6 x 102 mm QF 4 inch Mk XVI naval guns (3 twin turrets)
4 x 40 mm pom-pom cannons
2 to 4 20 mm Anti Aircraft cannons
2 depth charge launchers
4 depth charge throwersNotes: powered by 2 shaft steam turbines 19,000 hp (14,200 kW) The ORP Ślązak (Polish for Silesian) was a World War II Hunt-class destroyer. Initially laid down in 1940 for the Royal Navy as HMS Bedale, in 1942 she was commissioned by the Polish Navy.
After World War II, she was leased to the Indian Navy in 1953, where she served as a training ship until 1976. She was scrapped in 1979.
History as ORP Slazak
Slazak was commissioned on 17 April 1942. During the Second World War she took part in 32 patrols and escorted 104 convoys.[citation needed] Ślązak was one of eight Hunt class ships that took part in the Dieppe Raid.[1] As a convoy escort her crew shot down five enemy aircraft (and possibly three more).
After the war she was decommissioned in 1946 and transferred back to the Royal Navy.
History as INS Godavari
HMS Bedale was leased to the Indian Navy in 1952. She underwent a refit by the Cammell Laird shipyard at Birkenhead, and was commissioned as INS Godavari on 27 April 1953. In April 1959, the lease was converted into a sale.
She served as a training ship until 1976 when she was damaged beyond repair and scrapped in 1979.[2]
References
- ^ Stacey, Colonel C.P. (1967) [1955]. Six Years of War; The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific. Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War. 1. Ottawa: Queen's Printer. p. 345.
- ^ "HMS Bedale". Naval History website. http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-10DE-Bedale.htm. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
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