ORP Gen. K. Pułaski
ORP Generał Kazimierz Pułaski
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Name | ORP Generał Kazimierz Pułaski |
Ordered | 27 February 1976 |
Laid down | 17 July 1978 |
Launched | 24 March 1979 |
Commissioned | 25 June 2000 |
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Status | Active |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 3,650 |
Length | 135.6 m (444 ft 11 in) |
Beam | 13.7 m (44 ft 11 in) |
Draft | 5.7 m (18 ft 8 in) |
Speed | 29 knots (54 km/h/33 mph) |
Complement | 215 (17 officers and 198 enlisted) |
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Aircraft carried | ASW Kaman SH-2G Super Seasprite helicopter |
ORP Generał Kazimierz Pułaski is one of two Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided-missile frigates of the Polish Navy. Formerly serving in the United States Navy as USS Clark, after her transfer to Poland she was named for Kazimierz Pułaski, an American Revolutionary War hero in the United States and an independence hero in Poland.
Clark was decommissioned and stricken on 15 March 2000. That same day, she was transferred to Poland. She is propelled by two General Electric LM-2500 gas turbines and two 350 horsepower (261 kW) electric drive auxiliary propulsion units.
She was renamed on 25 June 2000 in a ceremony attended by Madeleine Albright. Commander Marian Ambroziak was the first Polish Commanding Officer. Generał Kazimierz Pułaski is homeported at Gdynia (Oksywie), and has participated in numerous NATO exercises in the Baltic.
See also
- USS Pulaski for US Navy ships of this name.
References
External links
- NavySite.de
- Polish Navy official site about Perry class in English
- Polish Navy official web about ORP Pulaski in Polish