ORP Gniezno on 9 August 2008.
History
Poland
NameGniezno
NamesakeGniezno
BuilderNorthern Shipyard, Gdańsk
Launched7 December 1988
Commissioned23 February 1990
Identification
StatusActive
General characteristics
Class and typeLublin-class minelayer-landing ship
Tonnage1675 tones
Length95.8 m (314 ft 4 in)
Beam10.8 m (35 ft 5 in)
Depth2.38 m (7 ft 10 in)
Installed power3x Cegielski-Sulzer 6ATL25D 1320 kW each
Speed16.5 knots
Capacity9 landing vessels up to 45 tones each
Complement51-56 crew
Armament
  • 2 × ZU-23-2MR units composed of two 23 mm guns and two Strela-2M surface-to-air missile system
  • 9 × ŁWD 100/5000 launching tubes

ORP Gniezno (822) is a Lublin-class minelayer-landing ship of Polish Navy, named after the city of Gniezno.

Construction and career

The ship was commissioned on 23 February 1990 and incorporated into the 2nd Minelaying and Transport Unit of the 8th Coastal Defence Flotilla based in Świnoujście. Halina Ostrzycka became the captain of the ship. The ship took part in many national exercises, visited ports in Germany, Denmark and Norway.

The crew consists of 51 people, including 5 officers. The main tasks of the ship are to build defensive minefields and transport troops and landing techniques by sea. From October 2019, the commander of the ship is Cdr. Przemysław Lizik.

In 2017 and 2019, the ship took part in the BALTOPS, carrying out an landing on the beach in Ustka on 14 June 2017. In manoeuvres in 2019 the ship sustained damage to the hull plating in the bottom part of the ship, off the coast of Lithuania.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ "Wyborcza.pl". trojmiasto.wyborcza.pl. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
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