Norwegian Campaign: ORP "Grom" sunk
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.พ. 2010
- 04.05.1940 Rombaken fjord, near Narvik, Norway
Polish destroyer GROM and destroyer FAULKNOR were on patrol off Narvik bombarding German positions when GROM was struck at 08;28 on her torpedo tubes by a German bomb.
Destroyer GROM (Cdr A. Hulewicz ORP) was sunk in the explosion and her survivors were picked up by light cruiser ENTERPRISE, which lowered boats to rescue survivors at 08;35, destroyers FAULKNOR and BEDOUIN. Light cruiser AURORA picked up four survivors.
Polish Lt (JG) A. Krakowski and fifty seven ratings were killed. The survivors were transferred from destroyers FAULKNOR and BEDOUIN to Battleship RESOLUTION, then to Polish destroyer BURZA.
The Polish survivors were embarked on a hospital ship for the passage back to England. They departed Harstad on the 10th for the Clyde.
During her operations during the Norwegian Campaign Grom was ranked by the German soldiers as probably the most hated of all the allied ships deployed to the area. This hatred was founded by the fact that the Grom took an intense interest in all hostile movements on shore and was reputed to spend hours lurking the coast in order to kill even a single German. On 4 May 1940, Grom carried out what turned out to be the last of her many Naval Gunfire Support missions in the Narvik area in the Rombaken fjord. Her loaded midship torpedo launcher was struck by a bomb from a German plane and the torpedo exploded, causing the hull to break into two parts and the ship to sink almost immediately with a loss of life of 59 sailors.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORP_Grom
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My grandfather, Maciej Bochenski, was on the Grom when it was sunk in Narvik. My father recently found this video and just showed me this evening. Thank you for posting it; it would seem that he probably was among those survivors captured in this footage. My grandfather died over 20 years ago - it is lovely to have this memory of him.
My GrandFather was one of the engineers Janik Mrugala on this ship when it went down, thankfully the polish valued the crew more than the ship and got the crew who had not been killed (RIP) off quickly so they could fight another day. After the sinking of the ORP Grom the crew then took over HMS Garland which took on the name ORP Garland and lived to figh t a lot more days in that bloody war.
As the Polish Navy was orderded to get out 3 days before the start of the war the had to leave their families and from that day on they fought a war as you would yourself if that was the situation you were in with everything you had in your being.
I am so proud of my Grandfather and his bravery and fight for justice and being, i am proud to be his grandson , I am proud to be of that fighting gene.
NEVER EVER FORGET THE POLES FOR THEIR FIGHT.
OK, but a small amendment: the crew of ORP "Grom" have got ORP "Piorun" (ex-british "Nerissa").
ORP "Garland" was taken by polish crew one day BEFORE "Grom" was sunk - May 3. 1940 on Malta.
My grate grandad was on the polish ship as well and he got rescued and survived the war I pretty sure. We will never forget what the people on the ship did for us 🕊🕊
My grandfather was part of the crew of ORP Grom and he was on the ship till the end and he died 😢
Excellent footage of a fine ship,thanks for uploading .
Shortly after noon on 8 April 1940 Polish submarine ORP Orzel (eng. Eagle) sank the 5,261 ton clandestine German troop transport Rio de Janeiro off the small harbour village of Lillesand in southern Norway, killing hundreds of German troops intended for the invasion of Norway.
Was curious how well the rescue of the crew was, judging by the rescue of the British liasons, and even the dog it seems safe to assume most of the crew was able to evacuate.
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Anyway when the allied managed to get into Narvik, the Germans destroyed completely the Iron Ore Harbour. This was done by 350 german explosive experts in disguise of red cross personell sent through swedish railway net. After the destruction much less then 11% of the production from the ore field could get exported via swedish harbours. The best day in post-Narvik conditions Sweden managed to export 11% of usual cargo via Narvik.
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good video!
nice information, rare and that much more people (me for example ooops ^^) don't knew
thank for that
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