ORP Sokół (Kobben class)

ORP Sokół (Kobben class)
Career (Poland, Norway) Polish Navy ensign Norwegian State and Navy Flag
Ordered: 1964
Builder: Nordseewerke
Laid down: 1 April 1966
Launched: 2 September 1966
Completed: 14 February 1967
Commissioned: RNoN: 1967
PN: July 4, 2002
Decommissioned: RNoN: 2002
Renamed: 2002
Homeport: Gdynia
Fate: in service
General characteristics
Displacement: 435 tons surfaced
485 tons submerged
Length: 45.2 m
Beam: 4.9 m
Draught: 4.7 m
Speed: 12 knots surfaced
18 knots submerged
Complement: 17 men
Armament: 8 x 533mm torpedo tubes

ORP Sokół, formerly HNoMS Stord, is one of four Kobben-class submarines of the Polish Navy. The vessel was built by Rheinstahl Nordseewerke GmbH in Emden, Germany (known there as the Type 207) for the Royal Norwegian Navy as HNoMS Stord. The vessel served with the Royal Norwegian Navy from 1967 until it was given to Poland in 2002. Sokół was modified in Gdańsk after the handover.