I do not know how to find the crew list but my father served on the Blyskawica

Hi thanks for your reply i dont know about you but i cant get any info on my fathers time on the said destroyer but i shall keep trying thanx again

I can't find any info but my father Teodor Krol was in the engine room as a stoker from 1942-43 to the end of the war when the ship took part in destroying the German u boats up in Scotland.Another crew member was Kazik Kostuch (i may have spelt that wrong)He was a cook on the Blyskawica and my fathers friend.I visited his home in Hove near Brighton with my father in the late 1950's.My father lived in Wales after the war and never returned to Poland.He died in 1975 but Karzych died not so long ago.His wife is still alive as is my mother.Blyskawica is a museum ship in Gydynia now and has been invited back to Cowes in the Isle Of Wight in 2012.70 years after the ship saved the town from heavy German bombardment--Mike

Hi mike thanks for your reply like i said i cant find any info on my dad or family, my dad said he served on the Blyskawica and the home office in london confirmed this for me my mother died 1968 dad died 1974 told us very very little i do know one of his crew mates was his best man when he met and married my mother when he met her in a resettlement camp in clydebank the crew mans name was dont know if im even near the spelling (Yurick Vwabish)yes i know the blyskawica is in Gydinia i done a virtual tour on it but if im still here in 2012 intend to go to cowes for that---RENA

I did have some photos of the crew on the Blyskawica meeting some Polish General and photo's of the anti aircraft guns in action but i moved a few years ago and can't find them.If i find them i will let you know.My father never said much about his time during the war.He met my mother who is Welsh when she was in teachers training college in Brighton and they married and came back to Wales where i was born

Hi i had a book with photos in it with the crew like you when i moved many years ago it went missing to so far your reply has been the best yet and i have tried many times on lots of sites but i still keep hopeing dont ever suppose i will get much but got to keep trying and like you my dad never said much about his life i learned more from the home office in london

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I've been trying to research the Blyskawica because my Grandfather served on it too. His name was Felek Piechocki and he was the Pay Master I believe. Sadly he died a couple of years before I was born so I never had the opportunity to ask him about it. I am looking for crew lists too. if you have any recommendations for how and where to find any information I'd really appreciate it. I live in Canada so it's a bit more difficult from way over here,

The Blyskawica is now a museum ship in Gydinia Poland and perhaps they have a record there but the Polish navy sailed under British command so possibly the Royal Navy have records.My father Teodor Krol started the war in the Polish reserve army in The Middle East but transfered to the Navy later.He was a stoker in the Engine room on the ship and was on the ship at the end of the war.I think he was on there from 1942-1945.The Blyskawica was in Plymouth at the end of the war and one crew member settled there.Another Kazick Kostuch settled in Hove Brigton and married a girl called Peggy.He had a lovely house there with fruit trees in the garden.My mother is still in contact with his wife.My father died in 1975 and Kazick died about 10 years ago.There probably still are some crew members alive,now in their late eighties but not many i would think