ORP Komendant Piłsudski

ORP Komendant Piłsudski was a Filin-class guard ship[1] originally built at Ab Crichton in Turku, Finland, for the Imperial Russian Navy. She was bought by the Polish Navy in 1920 and served until scuttled in the Invasion of Poland on September 30, 1939.

History
ORP Komendant Piłsudski
Imperial Russia
Builder:	Ab Crichton Turku, Finland
Launched:	January 24, 1917
Fate:	Sold to Poland, 1920
Poland
Name:	ORP Komendant Piłsudski
Acquired:	1921
Fate:	Sunk, September 30, 1939
Nazi Germany
Name:	Heisternest (M 3109)
Acquired:	raised after September 30, 1939
Fate:	Sunk, September 16, 1943
General characteristics
Class and type:	Filin-class guard ship
Displacement:	342 tons
Length:	55 m (180 ft 5 in)
Beam:	7 m (23 ft 0 in)
Draft:	2.9 m (9 ft 6 in)
Speed:	14.5 knots (26.9 km/h; 16.7 mph)
Complement:	60
Armament:	2 × 3 in (76 mm) guns 4 × machine guns 30 × mines

Raised by the Germans, she was subsequently renamed Heisternest (M 3109) and served in the Kriegsmarine. Heisternest was sunk in a U.S. bomb raid in Nantes, France, on September 16, 1943.

References

Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906-1921. London, England: Conway Maritime Press Ltd. p. 319. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.

Filin-class guard ships
Finnish Navy	Turunmaa Karjala
Polish Navy	General Haller Komendant Piłsudski
List of ships of the Finnish Navy / of the Polish Navy

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in September 1939
Shipwrecks	1 Sep: ORP Mazur 3 Sep: Athenia, ORP Gryf, ORP Mewa, ORP Wicher 6 Sep: ORP General Haller 8 Sep: HNLMS Willem van Ewijck 10 Sep: SS Magdapur, HMS Oxley 12 Sep: Davara 14 Sep: Fanad Head, ORP Jaskółka, U-39 16 Sep: Rudyard Kipling 17 Sep: HMS Courageous 18 Sep: ORP Warszawa 20 Sep: U-27 23 Sep: Martti Ragnar 24 Sep: Phryné, Caldew 29 Sep: HMS Caledonia 30 Sep: ORP Komendant Piłsudski 30 Sep: SS Clement
Other incidents	2 Sep: USS Pigeon 3 Sep: Hannah Böge 4 Sep: Christian Van Doornum 16 Sep: City of Paris 18 Sep: ORP Orzeł (incident) 22 Sep: Martti Ragnar Unknown date: HMS Vanquisher, HMS Walker Unknown date: SS Toruń
1938 1939 1940 August 1939 October 1939

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in September 1943
Shipwrecks	1 Sep: I-182 3 Sep: I-25 4 Sep: USS LCI(L)-339 5 Sep: USS YP-279 7 Sep: Velella, Maloja 8 Sep: Calitea II, Etna, U-983, Vesuvio 9 Sep: Antonio Bajamonti, Cattaro, Conte Verde, FR 22, Lepanto, USS Nauset, Roma, Taranto 10 Sep: HMS Abdiel, Argo, Piero Foscari 11 Sep: Conte di Savoia, USS Rowan 12 Sep: USS Navajo, U-617 13 Sep: Terra Nova 14 Sep: Katsonis, HMHS Newfoundland 15 Sep: Ro-101 16 Sep: Heisternest 18 Sep: Francesco Rismondo 19 Sep: Kansai Maru, U-341 20 Sep: HMCS St. Croix, U-338, U-346 21 Sep: HMS Polyanthus 22 Sep: U-229 23 Sep: Gaetano Donizetti 25 Sep: USS Skill 26 Sep: HMS Intrepid, Vasilissa Olga 27 Sep: Ardena, U-161, U-221 28 Sep: USS Cisco 30 Sep: Sanct Svithun Unknown date: HMS Gallant, USS Grayling, I-20, USS LCT-209, K-1, USS Pompano, U-669
Other incidents	7 Sep: U-760 8 Sep: U-988 10 Sep: I-2 11 Sep: USS Savannah 13 Sep: HMHS Newfoundland, HMS Uganda 14 Sep: HMS Warspite
1942 1943 1944 August 1943 October 1943

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