3rd Ship Flotilla

3rd Ship Flotilla of Polish Navy
3 Flotylla Okrętów
Shoulder sleeve insignia
Active1971 - present
Country Poland
BranchPolish Navy
Size3000 personnel
22 vessels
BaseGdynia-Oksywie Naval Base
PatronKomandor Bolesław Romanowski
Equipment:Warships, Submarines, Auxiliary
Insignia
3 FO Command
distinctive unit insignia

3rd Ship Flotilla (Polish: 3 Flotylla Okrętów (3 FO)) is a tactical unit of the Polish Navy composed of 11 subunits.[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)
  • Combat Ship Squadron (Dywizjon Okrętów Bojowych)
  • Support Unit (Dywizjon Okrętów Wsparcia)
  • Reconnaissance Group (Grupa Okrętów Rozpoznawczych, gOR)
  • 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 States Frigate 2 Anti-Submarine Unit
Kilo class  Soviet Union Submarine 1 Submarine Unit
Orkan class  East Germany Fast Attack Craft 3 Missile Vessels Unit
Project 888  Poland Training Ship 1 Support Unit
Project 570M  Poland Rescue Ship 2 Support Unit
Project 5002  Poland Rescue Ship 2 Support Unit
Project 863  Poland Reconnaissance Vessel 2 Reconnaissance Group

References

  1. ^ Flotylla Okrętów
  2. ^ "..:: :: Aktualności ::." wp.mil.pl. Retrieved 17 July 2015. in Polish
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