ORP Warszawa first of her class is a dreadnought battleship of the Polish Grand Navy, a ship class known for its more advanced engines and armour scheme, utilising a 3 layer armour system that was considered very advanced for the time, she participated during the Assault on convoy 12 and also won the battles of Visby and karlshann, during the swedish-polish war of 1906-1911
Ship Type: Dreadnought type Battleship
Ship Class: Warszawa Class.
Year Introduced: 1909
Length: 185m’s
Beam: 29m’s
Draft: 9.25m’s
Engine Type: 16 x water tube vertical boilers. 28,500 Metric horsepower
Propulsion: 3 x double screw propellers. 3x steam quad-expansion vertical engines.
Speed: Design: 20knots, Actual: 22.5 knots.
Range: 14knots at 9,350 nmi.
Complement: 62 officers, 940 men.
Armament: 12x2 330mm guns L/50 Guns, 12x1 152mm JR L/46 Casemates, 14x1 108mm JR L/52 Casemates.
Armour: Belt 335mm (13.1 inches), Turrets 305mm, Casemates 180mm, Conning tower 385mm, Torpedo Belt 150mm.
Produced: 12.
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