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Shipwrecks of ORP Wicher II & Grom II Polish Destroyers Hel Poland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ndR0t_QIpY

ORP Wicher ORP Wicher (English: Whirlwind) was a Project 30bis destroyer, transferred to the People's Republic of Poland from the Soviet Union in 1958.[2] She was built by the Zhdanov shipyard in Leningrad and originally commissioned into the Soviet Baltic Fleet as the Skoryy ("Rapid") in 1951, and transferred to Poland in 1958 together with a second ship, ORP Grom.

ORP Grom was the lead ship of her class of destroyers serving in the Polish Navy during World War II. She was named after the Polish word for Thunderbolt, while her sister ship ORP Błyskawica translates to lightning

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I think you want this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORP_Wicher_(1958)
- oh i think you are right! Thanks for this! I was not aware that there are multiple Wichers. I have updated it on the post text.
  
  Thanks for posting it. I thought it was interesting and looked around a bit and saw there were not only two Wichers, but they both met their demise in the same area.
I prefer Wicher 3 personnaly