ORP Jaskółka
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ORP Jaskółka was the lead ship of her class of minesweepers in the Polish Navy at the outset of World War II. Jaskółka was sunk during the Nazi invasion of 1939.
History
Jaskółka was built at Gdynia; launched 11 September 1934; and commissioned 27 August 1935.[1]
On 1 September 1939, Jaskółka under the command of captain Tadeusz Borysiewicz, along with other minesweepers, engaged in combat with German aircraft on their way to execute a bombing raid of the Hel Peninsula, in what became known as the Battle of the Gdańsk Bay. During the battle, sister ship Template:ORP was damaged. On the night of 12 September, Jaskółka and Template:ORP fired upon German positions. During the next two days, the same ships installed mines around the Hel peninsula to keep German ships from bombarding the defenders. On 14 September, Jaskółka was sunk after it was hit by a German bomb in the port of Jastarnia.[2]
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- Jaskółka-class minesweepers
- Ships built in Gdynia
- 1934 ships
- Ships sunk by German aircraft
- World War II shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea
- Maritime incidents in September 1939
- Shipwrecks of Poland
- Minesweepers sunk by aircraft