Following World War I, the Second Polish Republic on 28 November 1918, by the order of Józef Piłsudski, commander of the Armed Forces of Poland, founded the modern Polish Navy. The small naval force was placed under the command of Captain Bogumił Nowotny as its first chief.

The Polish Navy in the Cold War was part of the Warsaw pact, and had the support of a strong naval industry to provide its needs.

This is a list of ships of the Polish Navy from the outbreak of World War II to the present day.

The Polish Navy showcases a mix of modern and Cold War-relic hulls. This includes a single example of the Soviet-era diesel-electric Kilo-class attack submarine. The modest surface fleet encompasses a pair of ex-USN frigates (Oliver Hazard Perry-class) and …

The Polish Navy fought alongside the Allied navies in Norway, the North Sea, the Atlantic, and the Mediterranean, and aided in the escort of Atlantic and Arctic convoys, in which ORP Orkan was lost in 1943.

The Polish People's Army (Polish: Ludowe Wojsko Polskie, pronounced [luˈdɔvɛ ˈvɔjskɔ ˈpɔlskʲɛ]; LWP) [1] was the second formation of the Polish Armed Forces in the East during the latter stages of the Second World War (1943–1945), and subsequently the armed forces of the Polish communist state (1945–1989), which was formalized in ...

The Polish Navy in 1995 comprised on paper at least, three submarines, a single missile destroyer, a surface escort, thirteen TACM, nineteen sub-chasers, twenty-four mineweepers and the landing ships.

Warsaw Pact navies are often overlooked in the grand scheme of the cold war, easily shadowed by the ludicrous size reached by the Soviet Navy in the 1980s. Yet like Poland and Romania, East Germany had a large green water navy.

2024年10月24日 · Reproduces declassified records from the Centralne Archiwum Wojskowe in Warsaw covering the early years of the Cold War, primarily 1945-50, and includes letters, memoranda, policy papers of the Polish Cabinet of Ministers, the Minister of Defense, the General Staff, and other high military bodies.

The Polish Navy, while working with the Royal Navy, fought from the first day of WW II until the very last. It covered 1,213,000 nautical miles and escorted 787 convoys. It carried out 1,162 combat patrols and operations, and sunk approximately 100,000 tons of enemy shipping, including two U-boats and 39 transports.