https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ndR0t_QIpY

ORP Wicher ORP Wicher (English: Whirlwind) was a Project 30bis destroyer, transferred to the People’s Republic of Poland from the Soviet Union in 1958.[2] She was built by the Zhdanov shipyard in Leningrad and originally commissioned into the Soviet Baltic Fleet as the Skoryy (“Rapid”) in 1951, and transferred to Poland in 1958 together with a second ship, ORP Grom.

ORP Grom was the lead ship of her class of destroyers serving in the Polish Navy during World War II. She was named after the Polish word for Thunderbolt, while her sister ship ORP Błyskawica translates to lightning

  • CheradenineEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Thanks for posting it. I thought it was interesting and looked around a bit and saw there were not only two Wichers, but they both met their demise in the same area.

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOPM
      4·
      6 months ago

      Actually it was a total random find.
      I sometimes browse Google Earth for interesting pictures to share here. The reason why I was looking in this area, is because I just finished reading a book on how German refugees were treated in Northern Denmark after WWII. The book describes the evacuation from Danzig and the utter chaos that went on when the Germans finally realized that they needed to evacuate because of the advances of the red army. I wanted to check out the locations, and saw those two wrecks! I assumed it was from then, as a lot of refugee ships were bombed, both by the Axis and the Allies at that time!