3rd Ship Flotilla

3rd Ship Flotilla of Polish Navy
3 FO Logo
Active 1971 - present
Country  Poland
Branch Polish Navy
Size 3000 personnel
22 vessels
Base: Gdynia-Oksywie Naval Base
Patron Komandor Bolesław Romanowski
Equipment: Warships, Submarines, Auxiliary

3 Flotylla Okrętów (3rd Ship Flotilla) is a tactical unit of the Polish Navy composed of 11 sub-units.[1] The unit is a main strike force of the Polish Navy, it operates various warships types such as frigates, corvettes, submarines or fast attack crafts. The main base of 3 FO is Gdynia-Oksywie Naval Base.[2]

Sub-Units

  • Submarine Unit (Dywizjon Okrętów Podwodnych)
  • Anti-Submarine Unit (Dywizjon Zwalczania Okrętów Podwodnych)
  • Missile Vessels Unit (Dywizjon Okrętów Rakietowych)
  • Support Unit (Dywizjon Okrętów Wsparcia)
  • Reconnaissance Group (Grupa Okrętów Rozpoznawczych)
  • 9th Anti-Air Wing (9 Dywizjon Przeciwlotniczy)
  • 43rd Sapper Battalion (43 Battalion Saperów)
  • Naval Base Command (Komenda Portu Wojennego Gdynia)
  • Technical Base of Polish Navy (Baza Techniczna Marynarki Wojennej)
  • Hel Peninsula Naval Base (Punkt Bazowania Hel)

Equipment

Vessels

Gdynia-Oksywie Naval Base
Vessel Origin Type In service Unit Notes
Oliver Hazard Perry class United StatesFrigate2Anti-Submarine Unit
Kobben class NorwaySubmarine4Submarine Unit
Kilo class Soviet UnionSubmarine1Submarine Unit
Orkan class East GermanyFast Attack Craft3Missile Vessels Unit
Project 888 PolandTraining Ship1Support Unit
Project 570M PolandRescue Ship2Support Unit
Project 5002 PolandRescue Ship2Support Unit
Project 863 PolandReconnaissance Vessel2Reconnaissance Group

References

  1. ranslate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=pl&u=http://www.3fo.wp.mil.pl/pl/index.html&usg=ALkJrhggsRGhsLK5iAA89JaEZABEUfOr0w%5Bpermanent+dead+link%5D
  2. "..::  :: Aktualności ::." wp.mil.pl. Retrieved 17 July 2015. in Polish
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