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the destroyer mode in the Polish city of
Gdynia is not just another museum ship
risk Aviva is an honored veteran of
World War two and a true hero this
cowboy's kavita was one of the most
extensively used polish ships during
world war ii she sailed almost 140,000
miles took part in over 100 patrol
missions in battles and escorted over 90
convoys
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in 1918 after the end of World War one
Poland was reconstituted as an
independent state and since the country
received a C border it needed its own
free after 123 years Poland regained its
independence the restored state already
had experienced officers and seamen who
had served in the fleet's of their
former countries in 1918 these people
made their first attempt to create the
Polish Navy using people who came from
three different systems wasn't an easy
thing to do for a long time the poles
cherished this idea of Polish
independence Polish sovereignty Polish
might that we may say so and then the
Polish officers who served in the
Russian German and austro-hungarian
militaries were given their state and
told here it is your country you know
this was uniting them they served their
homeland with their new restored country
in the second half of the 1920s Poland
began to order ships in Holland France
and Great Britain with Keveza and her
sister ship Grom were built by British
shipyards and became the most advanced
destroyers of the time
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specifications of destroy risk of ether
Len 140 meters theme more than 11 meters
draught more than three meters standard
displacement 2144 tons armament main
caliber as of 1937 when the ship was
commissioned seven 120 millimeter Bofors
34 36 guns we scurvy so was upgraded and
rearmed many times in the course of the
war
her first cannons couldn't elevate over
35 degrees which is why they were
replaced with the Armstrong Vickers gun
anti-aircraft artillery two coaxial
Bofors 36 guns caliber 40 millimeter or
coaxial Hotchkiss 30 guns caliber
thirteen point two millimeter mines and
torpedoes to triple 550 millimeter
torpedo launchers
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ma bufang on a midship platforms whisker
beats ahead to 550 millimeter torpedo
launchers manufactured by the British
company Thorneycroft then she received
the Russian made 533 millimeter torpedo
tubes which you can see here now the
previous launchers could also fire
French 450 millimeter torpedoes this was
possible thanks to special producers
designed by two Polish engineers
obstacle mines maximum capacity 60 mines
standard capacity 44 mind anti-submarine
weapons to depth charge throwers with a
load of 20 depth charges maximum speed
about 40 knots main power plant to
Parsons geared steam turbine 3 admiralty
boilers power 54,000 horsepower aqua
waste Kavita had such an impressive
speed thanks to the innovative solutions
implemented in her engine and boiler
rooms debacle 3-2 boilers were installed
in one waterproof compartment and the
third boiler was in another room the
boiler rooms had an in-line arrangement
which allowed gases to be removed via a
single tube we are now entering the
boiler room the temperature inside the
boiler reached 2,000 degrees exhaust
gases were removed through the tubes
above us by leaning on the Valerie total
key water was heated there and turned
into steam
cruising range 2,000 nautical miles at
15 knots
on November the 25th 1937 the Polish
flag was raised on with Kavita the ship
left the British town cows where she had
been under construction for two years
and five days later the destroyer
solemnly arrived in Polish gardenia
meanwhile the situation in Europe was
deteriorating just two years after the
destroyer was commissioned the war with
the Third Reich broke out Poland became
the first country attacked by Nazi
Germany
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since our fleet was just a few ships
strong the polish command decided that
the most advanced of them were to leave
Poland and join the British Navy in
order to fight for independence
side-by-side with the Allies vocal fire
Shaniqua yvonne.stowe Jo Pearson
obsession yeah these ships arrived in
British port lease on September 1st
today when Germany attacked Vesta
blockade and began its invasion of
Poland that night the Polish ships
immediately joined British naval
operations patrolling the waters of
Ireland hunting enemy submarines and
escorting convoys having demonstrated
courage and good naval skills Polish
seamen quickly earned the trust of their
British brothers in arms but what was
often the pollak on the other
confounding to the cons are under an
agreement with the UK Polish ships
preserved the right to have their own
command and sail under their flag while
acting as part of the Royal Navy the
poles were thus allowed to preserve
their independence aboard their ships in
potential is therefore these ships were
the only independent polish territory
where the Polish flag and Polish uniform
were used
but I receiving all these units he's
firing ships the Great Britain was
primarily making a political act having
all these forces was a symbol of united
Europe symbolize democratic country
fighting against the evil forces of
Hitler's Germany this was the point
another question is how these crews
these gymnasts understood their role
they believed they were fighting for
their country we're fighting here but
we're fighting for Poland no system no
from the first day of the war until it
sinned Lewis kavita took an active role
in the operations of the British Navy
she was the first ship in world war ii
to attack and damage a german submarine
at navy the destroyer shot down two
german aircraft during the war she
destroyed six of them overall
yesterday canceled yeah during the
Allied evacuation from the coast of
France to Great Britain Louis Kavita was
one of the first ships to enter Dunkirk
scouting the area and shooting down an
enemy airplane Kaleo
after three years of war risk of Itza
arrived in the British town of cows for
another refit and this time fortune gave
the destroyer a chance to defend the
place where she was born
on the night of May the 4th 1942 the
town was attacked by 160 Luftwaffe
bombers that aimed to destroy the local
shipyard
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some of the aircraft flew into the mouth
of the Medina River where cows wasn't
protected by anti-aircraft guns and this
is when we see Aviva stepped in to
defend the town the destroyer left the
shipyards birth and under a hail of high
explosive bombs headed directly towards
the wave of attacking aircraft firing at
them
the guns conducted uninterrupted fire
the barrels were becoming so hot
that they had to be doused with water
constantly
concentrated fire from whiskey Webster's
anti-aircraft guns were so effective
that the former's had to fly higher and
decrease their accuracy at dawn when the
enemy aircraft flew away after failing
to achieve their goal it became clear
whiskey sir helped save cows from
destruction
special abilities kappa mental potential
caspo men totem local citizens still
remember how boys cabeza defended them
iike cotton from the valley tatiana tab
special memorial plaques were placed
both on the ship and in cows now
promenade Jeff cows they commemorated
the prowess of the Polish crews in
modernizing who also helped put out
fires after the battle and a Polish
doctor who provided medical assistance
to the citizen miss Grantham we
scooby-doo is considered a lucky ship by
both Polish and British sailors while
the sister ship groom was sunk by German
aviation as early as 1940 during her six
years of combat actions miss Kavita lost
only seven crew members the funny thing
is the larger the ship if you're
attached she has the smaller the ship
the more missions she performer if we
look at the destroyer type right off the
bag you can name crushed asko's
anti-submarine warfare air defense
artillery support of landing operations
artillery support of ground operations
and most importantly reconnaissance
missions that's why destroyers of all
nations including British and polish
destroyers were always on the cutting
edge of an attack they were the first to
enter a fight and the last to leave a
battle
Wizkid they carried out a combat
missions in various regions from the
subtropics of the mediterranean sea to
the cold of the Arctic sea Irish Sea and
the North Sea the destroyer took part in
the Allied landings in North Africa and
Normandy the Destroyers last combat
operation was in January 1945 when she
has courted a convoy near the coast of
England then the ship was under repair
til the end of the year and in this
condition she met the joyful news of the
victory
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meanwhile the geopolitical situation in
Europe had changed completely the Polish
People's Republic emerged and was
recognized by other nations including
the United Kingdom in 1947 wisco visa
was to return home sailors wondered
whether they should return to the
country which was very different from
the homeland they had left in 1939 most
of the sailors had already dealt with
Soviet authorities after 1944 so you can
well cool some of them had been sent to
Siberia before but under an agreement
between the Polish government-in-exile
and the USSR they could go to Great
Britain and join the Polish Navy people
chilliness the people who had been
arrested and exiled didn't want to
return to the country they were afraid
of thank you a number of Polish officers
noncommissioned officers and seamen
decided to return home but since it was
the Stalin era most of them were removed
from their positions
several officers were even sentenced to
death
kanya nice name only a few returned to
service in the Polish Navy after being
arrested when they and them evil among
them was commander Romanowski the
captain of buoys Kavita who brought the
destroyer from Great Britain to Poland
on July 4 the destroyer arrived in
Gdynia the very same day she started her
service with the fleet of the Polish
People's Republic for the next 20 years
huis Keveza was used to train new
sailors and also served as a warship by
omen during the ten years from 1951
through 1961 we scurried sir was
overhauled twice and rearmed once after
this she was recognized as the best ship
in the Polish Navy twice a crew had to
work hard to earn this title
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butchers giggle male shep to decide
shall I put some cavalry through there
in 1966 I set foot on the ship deck and
I remained there for the next 32 months
the temperature in the boiler rooms
reached 60 degrees so we had to work
dressed in shorts but the cruises were
the worst a shift lasted six hours and
was followed by six hours of free time
we would get tired quickly if you fell
asleep at night older sailors would pour
a bucket of sea water on your head to
wake you up and prevent you from falling
asleep until morning
All American internal Michael different
is the worst thing was cleaning the ship
after returning from a cruise we would
scrape everything with brushes oil and
oakum until it shine when we had
visitors they would ask us if the place
was actually run by women she says the
ship appeared so tiny in me till the
gold up he filled filled wrong but no
ship could last forever and one day luck
left with Kavita on August the 9th 1967
the destroyer was out on an exercise
when an accident occurred in one of her
boiler rooms a high-pressure steam pipe
ruptured which took the lives of seven
crew members Okajima Gigantes urushiba
boo-boo-boo
yup should be binding upon you at 9:07
a.m. an explosion occurred I was in room
G as I was off-duty I looked at the
clock immediately and this time became
stuck in my hat if the explosion
happened in the second boiler room but
we didn't know which one of the boilers
blew up we open security valves to let
the steam out then we shut the oil pumps
so that the oil wouldn't spill in the
boiler rooms and on the power pumps the
leader of the repair party opened the
hatch to the boiler room or the accident
took place but the steam pressure 25
atmospheres 350 degrees
what fortunately was it like the boots a
geologist a goat posing blood was so
high that he was thrown upwards and
she's proficient and if it wasn't for
the bulwark he would have fallen into
the sea he was burned all over as well
not even funny
lekha lega another sailor plugged in the
fire hose but he was too scared to go in
I felt a sudden surge of courage let
show believe em yet I took the hose and
started pouring water on ventilation
vents as I was descending now now we've
been fill up a man he's because you
never put up here I saw my friends on
the floor I went to the boiler room and
called it out but nobody answered for
Joel Maloney I went back up and the
leader asked me about the situation
we filled in motion even though I wasn't
supposed to do this in the presence of
an officer I took off my beret and threw
it on the ground as I was exhausted and
showed me then I fainted
the Navy command found it unreasonable
to fully restore the destroyer after the
accident
wisk Evita was towed to chef Anisha to
become part of the local air defences
and in 1975 it was decided to make a
renews iam ship for this purpose the
destroyer was returned to Gdynia and a
year later on May the 1st 1976 whiskey
weed sir opened as a museum ship no if I
get something like that up here the
opposite we're very happy that this ship
exists and is well maintained to this
today I can use me or EVO bullet is a
beautiful machine guided tours are
healthier to be canticle so that
visitors can learn about the history of
armaments and the Polish Navy the VI
mathematically in May
said ammonia Almaty put every single day
we conduct the flag-raising ceremony
about that welcome VIPs and perform
other duties coming on yeah Batman like
there are always people watching us from
the promenade of course they're
attracted not only by the ships but as
soon as the vessel is available for
sightseeing tourists want to see every
corner of her life hasn't like
unthinkable they're always happy to
touch upon the history of the fleet
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