ORP Grom (1957)

ORP Grom (English: Thunder) was a Project 30bis destroyer, sold to the People's Republic of Poland by the Soviet Union in 1957. She was built by the Zhdanov Shipyard in Leningrad and originally served in the Soviet Baltic Fleet as the Sposobnyy.[2] She served together in the Polish Navy with her sister ship Wicher until 1973. The ship was scrapped in 1977.[1]

For other ships with the same name, see ORP Grom and Soviet destroyer Sposobny.

History
PRL
Name:	ORP Grom
Builder:	Zhdanov Shipyard, Leningrad
Yard number:	606[1]
Laid down:	1 March 1950[2]
Launched:	30 April 1950[2]
Acquired:	from USSR, 15 December 1957[2]
Decommissioned:	1973[1]
Fate:	Scrapped, 1977[2]
General characteristics
Class and type:	Project 30bis destroyer
Displacement:	2,316 long tons (2,353 t) standard, 3,066 long tons (3,115 t) full load
Length:	120.5 m (395 ft 4 in)
Beam:	12 m (39 ft 4 in)
Draught:	3.9 m (12 ft 10 in)
Propulsion:	2 shaft geared turbines, 3 boilers, 60,000 shp (45,000 kW)
Speed:	36.5 knots (67.6 km/h; 42.0 mph)
Range:	4,080 nautical miles (7,560 km; 4,700 mi) at 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Complement:	286
Armament:	2 × 130 mm (5.1 in) B13 guns in a B-2LM turret 1 × twin 85 mm (3.3 in) AA gun 7 × single 37 mm (1.5 in) AA guns 2 × quintuple 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes 60 mines or 52 depth charges

References

1. "Проект 30-бис - Skory class". atrinaflot.narod.ru (in Russian). 2012. Archived from the original on 1 September 2007. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
2. "Destroyers - Project 30bis". russian-ships.info. 2012. Archived from the original on 10 April 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2012.