3rd Ship Flotilla

3rd Ship Flotilla of Polish Navy
3 FO Logo
Active	1971 - present
Country	Poland
Branch	Polish Navy
Size	3000 personnel 22 vessels
Base:	Gdynia-Oksywie Naval Base
Patron	Komandor Bolesław Romanowski
Equipment:	Warships, Submarines, Auxiliary

3 Flotylla Okrętów (3rd Ship Flotilla) is a tactical unit of the Polish Navy composed of 11 sub-units.^[1] The unit is a main strike force of the Polish Navy, it operates various warships types such as frigates, corvettes, submarines or fast attack crafts. The main base of 3 FO is Gdynia-Oksywie Naval Base.^[2]

Sub-Units

• Submarine Unit (Dywizjon Okrętów Podwodnych)
• Anti-Submarine Unit (Dywizjon Zwalczania Okrętów Podwodnych)
• Missile Vessels Unit (Dywizjon Okrętów Rakietowych)
• Support Unit (Dywizjon Okrętów Wsparcia)
• Reconnaissance Group (Grupa Okrętów Rozpoznawczych)
• 9th Anti-Air Wing (9 Dywizjon Przeciwlotniczy)
• 43rd Sapper Battalion (43 Battalion Saperów)
• Naval Base Command (Komenda Portu Wojennego Gdynia)
• Technical Base of Polish Navy (Baza Techniczna Marynarki Wojennej)
• Hel Peninsula Naval Base (Punkt Bazowania Hel)

Equipment

Vessels

Gdynia-Oksywie Naval Base

Vessel	Origin	Type	In service	Unit	Notes
Oliver Hazard Perry class	United States	Frigate	2	Anti-Submarine Unit
Kobben class	Norway	Submarine	4	Submarine Unit
Kilo class	Soviet Union	Submarine	1	Submarine Unit
Orkan class	East Germany	Fast Attack Craft	3	Missile Vessels Unit
Project 888	Poland	Training Ship	1	Support Unit
Project 570M	Poland	Rescue Ship	2	Support Unit
Project 5002	Poland	Rescue Ship	2	Support Unit
Project 863	Poland	Reconnaissance Vessel	2	Reconnaissance Group

References

1. ↑ ranslate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=pl&u=http://www.3fo.wp.mil.pl/pl/index.html&usg=ALkJrhggsRGhsLK5iAA89JaEZABEUfOr0w
2. ↑ "..::  :: Aktualności ::..". wp.mil.pl. Retrieved 17 July 2015.  in Polish