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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Orkan (ex-Myrmidon)	G90	676	Fairfield, Govan, UK	12/1939	2.3.1942	7.1942 // 11.1942	sunk 8.10.1943

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1920
Displacement full, t	2725
Length, m	105.3 pp 110.5 oa
Breadth, m	11.2
Draught, m	4.39 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	48000
Max speed, kts	36
Fuel, t	oil 537
Endurance, nm(kts)	5500(15)
Armament	3 x 2 - 120/50 QF Mk XI, 1 x 1 - 102/45 QF Mk V, 1 x 4 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 4 - 12.7/62, 2 x 2 - 12.7/62, 1 x 4 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (45 DC)
Electronic equipment	type 285, type 291 radars, type 128 sonar
Complement	190 - 226

Standard scale images

Project history

British destroyer Myrmidon of M class, transferred to Polish Navy 18.11.1942 and commissioned in the following month as Orkan.

Modernizations

Autumn 1942: - 2 x 4 - 12.7/62; + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

late 1942: - 2 x 2 - 12.7/62; + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

Naval service

8.10.1943 at escorting of SC-143 convoy Orkan was sunk in Northern Atlantic by German submarine U378.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.