ORP Dzik: Shipwreck Map, Location & Facts

Name	ORP Dzik	Wikidata label
Ship type	submarine	Wikidata P31 instance of
Cause of loss	War action	Keyword match in English Wikipedia lead sentence
Nationality / flag	Poland, Denmark	Wikidata P8047 country of registry
Operator	Royal Navy, Polish Navy, Royal Danish Navy	Wikidata P137 operator
Conflict	World War II	Wikidata P607 conflict
Sea / ocean	Aegean Sea	Natural Earth marine areas (public domain), point-in-polygon
Nearest coast	Turkey	Natural Earth (public domain); approx. 33 km from land
Position	39.6167, 25.7167	Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0)

About the wreck

ORP Dzik (Boar) was a U-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness. She was laid down on 30 December 1941 as P-52 for the Royal Navy but was transferred to the Polish Navy during construction. Launched on 11 November 1942, ORP Dzik was commissioned into the Polish Navy on 12 December 1942. Her name meant "Wild Boar" in Polish.

24 May 1943 Near Cape Spartivento, ORP Dzik fired a 4-torpedo salvo and damaged the Italian oil tanker Carnaro (8357 Gross Register Tonnage). After the attack, two Italian corvettes dropped over 60 depth charges.

21 Sep 1943 ORP Dzik fired torpedoes in Bastia harbour, Corsica, France and sank the German tanker Nikolaus (6397, former Greek Nikolaou Ourania) and the German tug Kraft (333 Gross Register Tonnage).

Location

Recorded position: 39.6167, 25.7167 (Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0); may be approximate)
Sea / ocean: Aegean Sea
Nearest coast: Turkey

Wreck positions on this site are for interest only and are not for navigation. Many wrecks are war graves or legally protected: never disturb human remains or remove artefacts, and check local law before diving.

OpenStreetMap

Text adapted from the Wikipedia article ORP Dzik (P52) (revision 1345230052), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section; condensed by selecting paragraphs and trimming at sentence boundaries; citations and formatting removed. No text added. This excerpt is available under the same licence.