Royal Navy - Arctic Operations

ORP Garland

 
On loan to Polish navy 1940-1946.

Name

#

Type

Class

Garland

 H 37

Destroyer

G-class

Built:

 1935

Lost:

 -



Ice on ORP Garland during convoy to Murmansk
 

"The small 1,392 ton Norwegian collier Dagney I (Captain Olaf Torkelsen) for instance was loading coal in Advent Bay in May 1941 [?] when HMS Nigeria and the Polish destroyer Garland arrived. The vessel loaded 2,043 tons of coal and was about to sail for Norway. She was ordered to sail for the United Kingdom. She was found by a British aircraft carrier on 31 July and ordered to Thorshaven" - (Arctic Interlude by Harry C. Hutson)

 

Operation

Date

Location / Other
Name unkown July 1941 Reconnaissance of Spitzbergen and Bear Island (Bjørnøya)


Cover from Polish forces in Middle East to ORP Garland canc. 18.2.1942.

Ship

Postmark

Date

Sender

Note
ORP Garland Egypt PP 18.2.1942 ORP Garland c/o GPO London ex PR

 

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