ORP Fala

ORP Fala as a museum ship in Kołobrzeg
History
Poland
Name:	ORP Fala
Builder:	Gdynia
Commissioned:	1965
Decommissioned:	1996
Fate:	Museum ship, Kołobrzeg
General characteristics
Class and type:	Project 912 class patrol craft
Displacement:	237 long tons (241 t)
Length:	41.35 m (135.7 ft)
Beam:	6.3 m (21 ft)
Draught:	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Speed:	24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph)
Armament:	2 × twin automatic 30mm AK-230 guns 12 × depth charges (maximum: 24)

ORP Fala is a Polish patrol craft of the Project 912 class (NATO: Obluze Class). She was the first ship of a five-ship series, commissioned in 1965. Of a Polish design, they were built in Gdynia. Fala means 'the wave'.

She initially wore a number: OP-301, then: 321. Initially she served in the Border Brigade of the Polish Navy, then in 1991 she, along with the other four ships, was given to the Polish Border Guard (receiving a new livery).

After decommissioning in 1996, Fala was opened as a museum ship in Kolobrzeg, as part of the Muzeum Oręża Polskiego exhibition.

AK-230 gun

References

• Jarosław Ciślak (in Polish): Polska Marynarka Wojenna 1995 (Polish Navy 1995), Warsaw 1995, ISBN 83-86776-08-0
• Robert Rochowicz (in Polish): Historia "912-ek" - patrolowców i ścigaczy (Story of the 912s - patrol and ASW craft), in: Morza, Statki i Okręty nr. 5/2004