Talk:ORP Wicher

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I wonder if ORP Wicher can claim the dubious title of the first destroyer sunk in the IIWW (European theatre, to be clear)? What about 'the first ship'? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 22:43, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Yup, it was the first destroyer, but not the first military vessel to be sunk in WWII. The dubious merit of being the first belongs to ORP Mazur and ORP Nurek, both sunk by aeroplanes on September 1. BTW, probably the first Navy soldier to be killed was Edward Szystowski, the commander of the naval air group - and the only casualty of the German bomb raid on the Puck air base. All of his men hid in the trenches while he remained outside. //Halibutt 23:54, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] It is not Wicher's photo!

The picture presented in EXTERNAL LINKS, as a Wicher after she was sinking, is in fact the picture of mine-layer ORP Gryf, 3 guns of which were removed and used to defend the Hel Peninsula. Wicher capsized after hit by bombs, and only picture of her after sinking is a photograph showing only a port-side and left propeller of the destroyer seen over the water. Belissarius 00:09, 10 March 2007 (UTC)