ORP Ślązak (L26)
Ślązak returning home after the Dieppe Raid | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Bedale |
| Builder | Hawthorn Leslie, Newcastle |
| Laid down | 25 May 1940 |
| Launched | 23 July 1941 |
| Fate | Transferred to Poland 1942, returned 1946, transferred to India 1953 |
| Poland | |
| Name | ORP Ślązak |
| Commissioned | 17 April 1942 |
| Decommissioned | 28 September 1946 |
| Identification | Pennant number: L26 |
| Fate | Returned to Royal Navy 1946 |
| India | |
| Name | INS Godavari |
| Namesake | Godavari River |
| Acquired | April 1959 |
| Commissioned | 27 April 1953 |
| Out of service | 1976, after running ashore in the Maldives |
| Identification | Pennant number: D92 |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1979 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Hunt-class destroyer |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 85.3 m (280 ft) |
| Beam | 9.6 m (31 ft) |
| Draught | 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in)/3.9 m (13 ft) |
| Speed | 27 kn (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
| Range |
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| Complement | 160 |
| Armament |
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| Notes | powered by 2 shaft steam turbines 19,000 hp (14,200 kW) |
ORP Ślązak (Polish for Silesian) was a World War II Hunt-class destroyer. Initially laid down in 1940 for the Royal Navy as HMS Bedale, in 1942 she was commissioned by the Polish Navy in the West.
After World War II, she was leased to the Indian Navy in 1953, where she served as a training ship until 1976. She was scrapped in 1979.