No radio signals had been received from her since she had sailed, and on 5 June she was ordered to return to base. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Ironically, the empires that conquered Poland—Russia, Prussia and Austria—all had black eagles as their symbols.

[7] In 2017 another private expedition found a previously unknown wreck which they identified to be most likely HMS Narwhal based on sonar data. Its use expanded in the 12th and 13th centuries, appearing on emblems, shields and flags. First time I came across your site. After a refit, Orzeł was assigned to the Royal Navy's 2nd Submarine Flotilla, and was assigned to patrol missions. The Polish eagle made its historical debut on Polish coins during the reign of King Bolesław I (992-1025). It would have represented the Poles charging into battle at Grunwald against the German Teutonic Knights in 1410 and at Vienna against the Turks in 1683. However, only fifteen of her twenty torpedoes were removed before the hoist cable parted; this was because it had been secretly sabotaged by her new commander, former chief officer, Lieutenant Jan Grudzinski. The bird appears on a red background that represents both the blood spilled to safeguard the Polish nation and the sunlit plains of the fatherland. Regaining independence in 1918, Poland again adopted the white eagle as its official coat-of-arms. When the communists took over under Soviet influence after World War II, the white eagle suffered one of its worst humiliations—it lost the golden crown that it had worn for centuries. think. Poland’s white eagle is fairly unique, although the Poles likely chose it for similar reasons—its courage and nobility. Its head faces right, as if gazing in the direction of truth, while its wings are fully spread out to protect all Poles and people of Polish descent, wherever they may live. 8 June 1940 was officially accepted as the day of her loss.

Orzeł departed on her seventh patrol on 23 May, to the central North Sea. He immediately stops the attack and makes the white eagle his symbol, although this time the red represents blood and sacrifice. Marsz Triumfalny Jana III Sobieskiego - (Triumphal March of John III Sobieski) For example, the famous legend of Krakow’s Wawel dragon probably resulted from the ancient Poles discovering dinosaur or mammoth bones and misidentifying them. It appears on everything associated with Poland—from T-shirts, hoodies and caps, to posters, flags and shot glasses.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=zi%C4%99bice+orze%C5%82&client=ms-android-samsung&source=lnms&biw=360&bih=615&prmd=inmv&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwix2cyV2bvMAhXJIcAKHc7DAfYQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=NdNBXHZjBA4H4M%3A. News that several hundred German soldiers were rescued by the Norwegian Navy and some had admitted their intention to occupy Norway reached the Norwegian parliament that evening, however this news was dismissed and no steps were taken to alert their Navy or Coast Guard of the impending invasion. The story starts of a little bit earlier as I heard it from my grandparents .3 brothers leave a kingdom far away with their groups of people to start of their own their names were lech,Czech and Rus and on their travels they start settling during there journey long story short Rus becomes Russia and Czech becomes Czechoslovakia and Lech notices a huge eagle so large that he has not seen before in a large nest and that’s where he settles and builds the first polish town around the nest so the eagle will protect the towns people like his own offspring.I guess that’s why our languages are alike because we are all Slavic people we all originate from the same place, That is the same story handed down to me also, That’s a story that was on books during communism…I think it was 1st or 2nd grade when I first read it . ( Log Out /  She never acknowledged reception, and never returned to base.

Thanks Mike, appreciate all the info on Poland.

Around midnight on 18 September, the submarine's Estonian guards were overpowered, the mooring lines were cut, and Orzeł got under way. As per the Worek Plan, the submarine was deployed on patrol in a designated strategic zone of the Baltic Sea.

And here is the one from my town where I was born and Brought up As Lech approached, the great bird expanded its massive wings across the red light of the setting sun.

The boat is best known for the Orzeł incident, her escape from internment in neutral Estonia during the early stages of the Second World War. [4] Rio de Janeiro was heading to Bergen in order to take part in the initial landings of Operation Weserübung - the invasion of Norway and opening move of the Norwegian Campaign. Doesn,t want to paste here ? so I can e mail it to you as an attachment…. Wrecks of various other ships have been located, but Orzeł has not been among them and ultimately the fate of the ship remains a mystery. Kings used to place their own emblems in the center of the national coat of arms (i.e., House Vasa). They would have become aware of the eagle’s cultural heritage from foreign coins that made their way up to Poland from the Roman world during trade. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account.

The escape of the submarine Orzeł was used by the Soviet Union and Germany to challenge Estonian neutrality. ..don’t know how I missed it….

ORP Orzeł was the lead ship of her class of submarines serving in the Polish Navy during World War II.Her name means "Eagle" in Polish.The boat is best known for the Orzeł incident, her escape from internment in neutral Estonia during the early stages of the Second World War Unfortunately, the German invasion and World War II came not long after, and the eagle once more came to represent courage and sacrifice both to the Polish resistance and the government-in-exile.

The crew received orders to attack the pre-dreadnought Schleswig-Holstein, should it leave Danzig. [9], Coordinates: 54°59′N 1°00′E / 54.983°N 1.000°E / 54.983; 1.000, Learn how and when to remove this template message, The Avalon Project - Laws of War : Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers in Naval War (Hague XIII); October 18, 1907, Losses of the German merchant navy on the, Norwegian Defence Force website on the sinking of the, "EKSPEDYCJA "SANTI ODNALEŹĆ ORŁA" 2017 ZAKOŃCZONA", "Exactly 80 years after its last voyage, a quest begins to solve the Mystery of the WWII Polish Submarine Orzel", Association of the "ORZEŁ" submarine search group, Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in September 1939, Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in May 1940, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ORP_Orzeł_(1938)&oldid=978709475, Articles with German-language sources (de), Articles with Norwegian-language sources (no), Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles needing additional references from May 2012, All articles needing additional references, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2008, Articles with Polish-language sources (pl), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, 12 × 533 mm (21.0 in) / 550 mm (22 in) torpedo launchers (4 aft, 4 rudder, 4 waist), This page was last edited on 16 September 2020, at 14:10. Since Orzeł's navigational charts had all been removed by the Estonian authorities, Captain Grudzinski resolved to stop a German ship and take her charts. The mother eagle defends her nest valiantly, however, and begins to bleed during the fight. When Poland was partitioned, or torn apart, in the 18th century, the eagle became a symbol to motivate Poles to fight and make sacrifices to regain independence. thanks for the info, I proudly display my polish flag! Known for sure is that the eagle, as a symbol, goes back millennia before the dawn of Poland in the 8th and 9th centuries. Shortly after noon on 8 April 1940 she sank the 5,261 ton clandestine German troop transport Rio de Janeiro off the small harbour village of Lillesand in southern Norway,[3] killing hundreds of German troops intended for the invasion of Norway. In another version of the story, Lech desires to steal one of the eaglets and raise it for himself. However, the only German vessels encountered were warships rather than merchantmen. She was a modern design (designed by the joint venture of Polish and Dutch engineers), albeit quite large for the shallow waters of the Baltic Sea. Orzeł sank no enemy vessels during her journey from Estonia to Britain, although Soviet authorities blamed her for sinking the Soviet tanker Metallist in Narva Bay on 26 September, the incident being used as a pretext for the Soviet invasion of the Baltic states.[2]. thank you so much for all the info -enjoy it. I have a picture of the white eagle ,crown and arrows in it’s claws what do those signify? She lay on the bottom until emergency repairs were made to the radio, then surfaced to transmit a message in English.
The Polish crew believed that those returning from the underworld "deserve to travel first class only". The wreck was surveyed and identified as HMS J6. [8] Running half-submerged, Orzeł ran aground on a bar at the harbour mouth, where artillery fire damaged her wireless equipment.

Cultures around the world have respected birds of prey for their bravery, dignity and magnificence. Although various theories exist regarding her loss, and it is commonly believed that she ran onto a mine in the Skagerrak, the true cause of her loss remains unknown to this day. ( Log Out /  ( Log Out / 

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Grudzinski managed to get the boat off the bar by blowing her tanks, and she proceeded out of the Gulf of Finland, intending to sail for a British port, the crew having heard a radio report that the Polish submarine Wilk had been welcomed in Britain. The eagle symbol was later adopted by the Byzantine, Russian and Prussian Empires and, of course, by the United States.

At the insistence of Germany, the Estonian military authorities boarded the ship, interned the crew, confiscated all the navigation aids and maps, and commenced removing all her armaments. Forty days after she had originally sailed from Gdynia, Orzeł made landfall, off the east coast of Scotland.

The bare-headed white eagle represented a Poland subservient to the ruling Soviet regime.

Change ). Anyhow, years ago, I redesigned the Bialy Oziel…See the attached On 15 September the captain, Lieutenant-Commander Henryk Kłoczkowski, was forced to leave the submarine to undergo hospital treatment for an unknown illness he had been suffering from since 8 September. The submarine's sole remaining navigational aid was a list of lighthouses, and using these as a reference, Orzeł followed a course along the Baltic coast, around Denmark, and out into the North Sea where she came under attack by British as well as German forces, since without her wireless equipment she had no means of identifying herself.
The arms of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was quartered, with Polish eagle and Lithuanian Pahonia on opposite sides. Please send me your direct e mail addy ( Log Out / 


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