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After
the German invasion of Poland in 1939 the destroyer Grom
was one of the ships from the Polish navy that manage to
get away to England. 22.April 1940 Grom sailed up the
Norwegian coastline and participated in the operations in
Narvik. 4.May she laid at anchor outside Narvik when three
German Heinkel 111 planes attack her. Six bombs were
released from an altitude of over five thousand meters,
and by a miracle two of them found their target.
Aleksander Hulewicz had a crew of 180 men, and 59 of them
perished in the attack. The rest of the crew were picked
up by two British destroyers who came to assist. The wreck
was found in 1986 and rest today broken in two outside
Orneset on a depth of 70 to 105 meter.
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ORP
Grom
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114,0 x 11,3 x 3,1 m
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Cowes ( UK ) 1936 |
Rosyth ( UK ) |
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