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Halinski Kartonowy Arsenal 1995-09 - Okret Podwodny Orp Dzik
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Career  
Class and type: U-class submarine 
Name: HMS P52 
Builder: Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness 
Laid down: 30 December 1941 
Launched: 11 October 1942 
Out of service: transferred to Polish Navy 
Fate: Scrapped April 1958 
Career  
Name: ORP Dzik 
Commissioned: 16 December 1942 
Decommissioned: 25 July 1947 
Out of service: returned to Royal Navy, transferred to Danish Navy July 1947 
Career  
Name: HDMS U 1 
In service: July 1947 
Out of service: 1957 
Renamed: HDMS Springeren in 1950 
Fate: Returned to UK 1957 
General characteristics 
Displacement: Surfaced - 540 tons standard, 630 tons full load


Submerged - 730 tons 
Length: 58.22 m (191 ft) 
Beam: 4.90 m (16 ft 1 in) 
Draught: 4.62 m (15 ft 2 in) 
Propulsion: 2 shaft diesel-electric
2 Paxman Ricardo diesel generators + electric motors


615 / 825 hp 
Speed: 11.25 knots max surfaced


10 knots (20 km/h) max submerged 
Range: 4,300 nautical miles (8,000 km) at 11.5 knots
5,203 nautical miles (9,636 km) at 8.5 knots submerged 
Complement: 37 
Armament: 4 bow internal 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes - 8 - 10 torpedoes


1 - 3-inch (76 mm) gun 
ORP Dzik was a U-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness. She was laid down on 30 December 1941 as P-52 for the Royal Navy, but was transferred to the Polish Navy during construction. Launched on November 11, 1942, ORP Dzik was commissioned into the Polish Navy on December 12, 1942. Her name meant "Wild Boar" in Polish.

24 May 1943 Near Cape Spartivento, ORP Dzik fired a 4 torpedo salvo and damaged the Italian oil tanker Carnaro (8357 BRT). After the attack, two Italian corvettes dropped over 60 depth charges.

21 Sep 1943 ORP Dzik fired torpedoes in Bastia harbour, Corsica, France and sank the German tanker Nikolaus (6397, former Greek Nicolaou Ourania) and the German tug Kraft (333 BRT).

8 Jan 1944 ORP Dzik sank the Greek sailing vessel Elleni (200 BRT) with gunfire off Lesbos Island, Greece in position 39.37N, 25.43E.

ORP Dzik destroyed or damaged 18 surface ships both German and Italian with a total tonnage of 45,080 tons. She participated in Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, and also engaged enemy surface ships with her 76 mm cannon three times and the crew boarded two enemy ships. The ORP Dzik earned the Jolly Roger.

In July 1946, the Polish Navy decommissioned her and returned her to the Royal Navy.

In 1947, the ship was transferred to the Royal Danish Navy. She sailed as HDMS U-1 and was later renamed to HDMS Springeren. She was returned to the Royal Navy in April 1958 and scrapped.

Commanding officers
August 28, 1942 - November 1944: Capt. Boleslaw Romanowski 
November 1944 - December 31, 1944: Lt. Tadeusz Noworol 
January 1, 1945 - August 25, 1946: Capt. Andrzej Klopotowski 

Thanks to Up Periscope :)