ORP Arctowski
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ORP Arctowski is a survey ship of the Polish Navy
Polish Navy
The Marynarka Wojenna Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej - MW RP Polish Navy, is the branch of Republic of Poland Armed Forces responsible for naval operations...
. Launched in 1982 in Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, she is the lead ship of the Projekt 874 class, known as modified Finnik class in NATO
NATO reporting name
NATO reporting names are classified code names for military equipment of the Eastern Bloc...
code. She is the sister ship of ORP Heweliusz
ORP Heweliusz
ORP Heweliusz is a survey ship of the Polish Navy of the Projekt 874 class, known as modified Finik class in NATO code. She was launched on 11 September 1981 and commissioned on 27 November 1982....
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In July 2006 the crew of the ship performed the positive identification of the wreckage of the German
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World War II
World War II
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German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin
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