Saturday, 10 September 2011

The Polish navy according to the Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant morning edition dated 11 October 1921

Danzig, 6 October. The question if the Polish navy had rights in this harbour was still unsolved. In the December meeting of the League of Nations this problem would be discussed but the approaching winter made the situation more and more urgent. The secretary general of the League asked general Haking the High Commissary of the League at Danzig to find a temporarily solution in the interest of the Polish navy. According to a local newspaper consisted this navy of 2 gunboats, 4 minelayers and 6 former German torpedo boats which were at that moment being repaired in England. Also the former cruiser Dantzig was probably transferred to Polen. The merchant navy existed of the wood-built steamer Krakow of 240 ton and a training vessel. For these few warships were five admirals, 248 officers and 2,000 sailors available.(1)

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1. According to the website http://www.german-navy.de/hochseeflotte/ships/smallcruiser/danzig/history.html was she a small cruiser belonging to the Bremen-class in 1919 handed over to England and broken up there. Also the website http://www.worldwar1.co.uk/cruisers/sms-bremen.html confirmed her fate. After being decommissioned in march 1918 was she handed over to England and broken up there in begin 1923. She was laid down at the navy yard at Danzig as the SMS Danzig in July 1904 and finished in February three years later. So she served in the Polish navy.