ORP Mewa
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 ORP Mewa (1937)
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| Name | ORP Mewa ("seagull") |
| Builder | Stocznia Gdyńska, Gdynia |
| Launched | 10 January 1935 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Template:Sclass- |
| Displacement | 183 t standard |
| Length | 45 m (147 ft 8 in) |
| Beam | 5.5 m (18 ft 1 in) |
| Propulsion | 2 x diesel engines, 1,050 hp (780 kW) total |
| Speed | 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph) |
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ORP Mewa (Polish for "seagull") was a Template:Sclass- of the Polish Navy at the outset of World War II. Mewa participated in the defense of Poland during the German invasion of 1939. The ship was damaged on 1 September 1939 by a German bomb. On 3 September she was again hit by bombs and sank. The ship was later refloated and captured by the Germans. After the war, she returned to serve under the Polish flag.
A subsequent Projekt 206FM class minehunter was commissioned as Mewa (624) in 1967.
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