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

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Ślązak (ex-Bedale)	L26	629	Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn, UK	29.5.1940	23.7.1941	6.1942	to UK 9.1946 (Bedale)
Kujawiak (ex-Oakley)	L72	21	Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne, UK	11/1939	30.10.1940	6.1941	sunk 16.6.1942
Krakowiak (ex-Silverton)	L115	1899	White, Cowes, UK	12/1939	4.12.1940	5.1941	to UK 9.1946 (Silverton)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1050
Displacement full, t	1580
Length, m	80.5 pp 85.3 oa
Breadth, m	9.60
Draught, m	3.78 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	19000
Max speed, kts	27
Fuel, t	oil 265
Endurance, nm(kts)	2100(20)
Armament	3 x 2 - 102/45 QF Mk XVI, 1 x 4 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 DCT, 3 DCR (30 - 60)
Electronic equipment	type 285, type 286/P radars, type 128 sonar
Complement	168

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Project history

British escort destroyers of Hunt class 2nd series, transferred to Polish Navy before commission in April, June 1941 and April, 1942.

Modernizations

1942-1943, many: + type 271 radar

1943, Ślązak: + 1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII

1943-1944, survived: - type 286/P radar; + type 291 radar

1944, Ślązak, Krakowiak: + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

Naval service

Kujawiak 16.6.1942 was lost near Malta on a mine.



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