ORP_General_Kazimierz_Pulaski ORP_General_Kazimierz_Pulaski

ORP General Kazimierz Pulaski - Definition and Overview

Career
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Polish Navy Ensign

Ordered: 27 February 1976
Laid down: 17 July 1978
Launched: 24 March 1979
Commissioned (US): 9 May 1980
Decommissioned (US): 15 March 2000
Struck (US): 15 March 2000
Received (PL): 15 March 2000
Commissioned (PL): 25 June 2000
Decommissioned (PL):
Struck (PL):
Fate:
General Characteristics
Displacement: 3650 ton
Length: 135.6 m
Beam: 13.7 m
Draft: 5.7 m
Propulsion: Two General Electric LM-2500 gas turbines
Two 350 horsepower electric drive auxiliary propulsion units
Speed: 29 knot (54 km/h)
Range:
Complement: 17 officers
198 enlisted
Armament: Two double tube Anti-Submarine Torpedo mounts
One 76 mm Rapid Fire Dual Purpose Gun
One Vulcan Phalanx system
one Guided missile launching systems with Standard Surface-to-Air Missiles, Harpoon Surface-to-Surface Missiles
Aircraft: ASW Kaman SH-2G Super Seasprite class
Motto:

The ORP Generał Kazimierz Pułaski (Pendent 272) is an Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates in the Polish Navy. It was the former USS Clark (FFG-11). It is named for Kazimierz Pulaski, a American Revolutionary War hero in the United States and an independence hero in Poland.

The Clark was decommissioned and stricken on 15 March 2000. That same day, she was transferred to Poland.

She was rename on 25 June 2000 in a ceremony attended by Madeleine Albright. Commander Marian Ambroziak was the first Polish Commanding Officer. Generał Kazimierz Pułaski is homeported in Gdynia Oksywie, and has participated in numerous NATO exercises in the Baltic.

See USS Pulaski for USN ships of this name.

External links

NavySite.de (http://www.navysite.de/ffg/FFG11.HTM)

Polish Navy official site about Perry class in English (http://navy.mw.mil.pl/index.php?akcja=oliver)

Polish Navy official web about ORP Pulaski in Polish (http://www.mw.mil.pl/index.php?akcja=oliver)


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