ORP Wicher (1958)

For other ships of the same name, see ORP Wicher.

ORP Wicher of the Polish Navy

ORP Wicher was a Project 30bis Skoryy-class destroyer transferred to the Polish Navy from the Soviet Union. She was the second ship to be named Wicher, which means "gale" in Polish. She was built by the Zhdanov shipyard in Leningrad and originally commissioned into the Soviet Baltic Fleet as the Skoryy (Rapid) in 1951 and transferred to Poland in 1958 together with a second ship, Grom. The ship was retired in 1974 and scrapped. One of the 130 mm guns is preserved in the Polish Navy Museum in Gdynia.

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• This article incorporates material from Polish Wikipedia