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{{Expand Polish|ORP Generał Haller|date=January 2022}}
{{More citations needed|date=December 2009}}

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'''ORP ''General Haller''''' was a {{sclass|Filin|guard ship}}<ref name="conway">{{cite book |editor1-first=Robert |editor1-last=Gardiner  |title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921 |year= 1985 |publisher=Conway Maritime Press Ltd. |location=London, England |isbn=0-85177-245-5 |pages=319}}</ref> originally built for the [[Imperial Russian Navy]]. She was later acquired by the [[Polish Navy]] and served until sunk during the [[Invasion of Poland]] on 6 September 1939 as a result of the bombing of German aircraft.

==History==
''General Haller'' was built at [[Crichton (Turku shipyard)|Ab Crichton]] in [[Turku]], [[Grand Duchy of Finland|Finland]], for the [[Imperial Russian Navy]]. She was bought by the [[Polish Navy]] in 1921 and subsequently served as a school ship and [[minelayer]]. In Poland, she was classified as ''kanonierka'' ([[gunboat]]).

On 1 September 1939, under the command of Captain Stanisław Mieszkowski, ''General Haller'' was patrolling the port of [[Gdynia]], where she was damaged in air attacks. On 2 September, the gunboat was sent to the naval port at [[Hel, Poland|Hel]]. There she was turned into a floating battery, until on 3 September, after major bomb damage, all the guns were stripped and added to the defences on land. She was left floating until she was sunk on 6 September.

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