The Orzel sister ship of the Sep
An item reported that the Polish submarine lying in the harbour of Gdynia departed from the shipyard towards open sea in 16 December 1952.(1) Although fitted out with a saw-shaped net cutter on the bow there was no sign of a snorkel. At that moment were on the conning tower 4 men standing of which 2 officers according to their caps, another four men on the fore and three more in the fantail. All men not being officers were dressed in canvas overalls. The observer saw none leather suits. A last remark was that this seemed to be the only operational Polish submarine.(2)
Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP80-00810A000600290003-1.
Notes
1. After the Second World War became Poland a communist government part of the Eastern Bloc until 1989 when Poland became the independent Republic of Poland.
2. The Sep of the Orzel-class, laid down by the Rotterdamsche Doogdok Maatschappij, Rotterdam, Netherlands in November 1936, launched on 17 October 1938, completed in April 1939 and stricken in September 1969?
