Schon gewußt? Namensgebung HMS "Danae" -> ORP "Conrad"

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Servus,

nur ein Detail, aber mir absolut unbekannt:

After the loss of ORP Dragon, on 4 October she (Danae) was leased to the Polish Navy. A sister ship of ORP Dragon, she was manned mostly by the surviving part of her crew. Commanded by Cmdr. Stanisław Dzienisiewicz, she was being refurbished in Southampton and then Chatham until 23 January 1945. Initially the ship was to be renamed to either "ORP Wilno" or "ORP Lwów", after the cities of Wilno (Vilnius) and Lwów (Lviv). This was controversial because the cities — although they were claimed by Poland — are in Lithuania (annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940) and Ukraine respectively. The British authorities did not wish to offend the Soviets. It was decided to use the politically neutral name of ORP Conrad, after Józef Konrad Korzeniowski, better known under his English pen name of Joseph Conrad.

Quelle: Richard