NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Piorun (ex-Nerissa)	G65 - D165	563	John Brown, Clydebank, UK	7/1939	7.5.1940	11/1940	to UK 9.1946 (Noble)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1773
Displacement full, t	2350
Length, m	103.5 pp 108.7 oa
Breadth, m	10.9
Draught, m	4.16
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	40000
Max speed, kts	36
Fuel, t	oil 464
Endurance, nm(kts)	5500(15)
Armament	3 x 2 - 120/45 QF Mk XII, 1 x 1 - 102/45 QF Mk V, 1 x 4 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 2 - 12.7/62, 1 x 5 -533 TT, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (20 DC)
Electronic equipment	type 285, type 286/P radars, type 124 sonar
Complement	183 - 218

Standard scale images

Project history

British destroyer Nerissa of N class, transferred to Polish Navy 10.10.1940 and commissioned 5.11.1940 as Piorun.

Modernizations

1942: - 1 x 1 - 102/45, 2 x 1 - 20/70, 2 x 2 - 12.7/62; + 4 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 5 - 533 TT

1943 - 1944: - type 286/P radar; + 2 DCT, 1 DCR (DC stowage was 45 pcs), type 271 or type 293, type 291 radars

Naval service

No significant events.

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