page_title: ORP Mewa
hierarchical_section_title: ORP Mewa
caption_attribution_description: English: Polish minesweeper ORP Mewa.
context_page_description: ORP Mewa was a Jaskółka-class minesweeper of the Polish Navy at the outset of World War II. Mewa participated in the defense of Poland during the German invasion of 1939. The ship was damaged on 1 September 1939 by a German bomb. On 3 September she was again hit by bombs and sank. The ship was later refloated and captured by the Germans. After the war, she returned to serve under the Polish flag.
  A subsequent Projekt 206FM class minehunter was commissioned as Mewa in 1967.
context_section_description: ORP Mewa (Polish for "seagull") was a Jaskółka-class minesweeper of the Polish Navy at the outset of World War II. Mewa participated in the defense of Poland during the German invasion of 1939. The ship was damaged on 1 September 1939 by a German bomb. On 3 September she was again hit by bombs and sank. The ship was later refloated and captured by the Germans. After the war, she returned to serve under the Polish flag.
  A subsequent Projekt 206FM class minehunter was commissioned as Mewa (624) in 1967.
caption: ORP Mewa (1937)
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