ORP Gniezno

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

ORP Gniezno on 9 August 2008.
History
Poland
Name: Gniezno
Namesake: Gniezno
Builder: Northern Shipyard, Gdańsk
Launched: 7 December 1988
Commissioned: 23 February 1990
Identification:
Status: Active
General characteristics
Class and type: Lublin class
Tonnage: 1675 tones
Length: 95.8 m (314 ft 4 in)
Beam: 10.8 m (35 ft 5 in)
Depth: 2.38 m (7 ft 10 in)
Installed power: 3x Cegielski-Sulzer 6ATL25D 1320 kW each
Speed: 16.5 knots
Capacity: 9 landing vessels up to 45 tones each
Complement: 51-56 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

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 June 14, 2017.[1] In the maneuvers in 2019, the ship damaged the hull plating in the bottom part of the ship on the coast of Lithuania.[2]

References
  1. "ORP Gniezno", Wikipedia, wolna encyklopedia (in Polish), 29 May 2020, retrieved 21 October 2020
  2. "Wyborcza.pl". trojmiasto.wyborcza.pl. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
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