ORP Komendant Piłsudski

Career (Imperial Russia)
Builder:	Crichton-Vulcan naval yard Turku, Finland
Launched:	January 24, 1917
Fate:	Sold to Poland, 1920
Career (Poland)
Name:	ORP Komendant Piłsudski
Acquired:	1921
Fate:	Sunk, September 30, 1939
Career (Nazi Germany)
Name:	Heisternest (M 3109)
Acquired:	raised after September 30, 1939
Fate:	Sunk, September 16, 1943
General characteristics
Class and type:	Filin-class guard ship
Displacement:	342 tons
Length:	55 m (180 ft 5 in)
Beam:	7 m (23 ft 0 in)
Draft:	2.9 m (9 ft 6 in)
Speed:	14.5 knots (26.9 km/h; 16.7 mph)
Complement:	60
Armament:	2 × 3 in (76 mm) guns 4 × machine guns 30 × mines

ORP Komendant Piłsudski was a Filin-class guard ship^[1] originally built at Crichton-Vulcan naval yard in Turku, Finland, for the Imperial Russian Navy. She was bought by the Polish Navy in 1920 and served until sunk in the Invasion of Poland on September 30, 1939.

Raised by the Germans, she was subsequently renamed Heisternest (M 3109) and served in the Kriegsmarine. Heisternest was sunk in a U.S. bomb raid in Nantes, France, on September 16, 1943.

References

1. ^ Gardiner, Robert, ed (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906-1921. London, England: Conway Maritime Press Ltd.. pp. 319. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.