Lewin of Greenwich Naval History & Forum

The pride of the Polish Armed Forces and the Navy.
The oldest preserved destroyer and still alive; built by J. Samuel White on Cowes UK, commisioned 1937.
A lot of photos in internet.
Fought in WW2 from first to last day, Atlantic, Med, Arctic; member of the famous the 10th Destroyer Flotilla .
Preserved very well and is on the Polish Navy list so her future is safe.
Looks almost like in WW2; camouflage, main guns, masks, two mountings of double 40mm Bofors, etc.
What makes significant difference is that she is high on the water having of course no fuel, ammo etc. ; old lady on high heels
In 2005 the counter of the visitors showed 5 millions, today it might be around 10 millions (average is 200 000 a year) - will check it out.
Visiting the ship is "the must" for the Polish who enjoy vacations in Gdansk-Gdynia area.

TBC

GD

One to be proud of GD , look forward to some photos of her . Keeping and remembering the past hopefully preserves the future , or I like to think so .

I think this colour photo of her came off the old site.

Jim

Besides visual similarity of the ship to her WW2 times inside there is still almost intact and used till 1976 (!!!) the British fire control system which consists of Fire Control Box (FCB); Fuze Keeping Clock( Mk III, Serial No 254; Manufactured by Coventry Gague&Tools Ltd ); Roll Corrector Unit (RCU and a Mark V rangefinder the latter unchanged from WW2 times except the optics which was replaced by the Soviet navy type and short of the 285 radar antenaes which actually had not been removed before Blyskawica went to Poland.
Today the units have Polish instructions and other markings which replaced the original British ones.

Regards,

GD