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Gorzki los ORP Jastrzab

By Damski, Zbigniew
(Bitter Fate of ORP Jastrzab)
1987, Wydawnictwo MON Warszawa
ISBN 8311074984
Paperback, 128 pages, no illustrations
book is in Polish language

Descripton: History of Polish submarine Jastrzab (Hawk), a lend-lease hand-me-down old US submarine (S-25) lent to the Polish Navy in 1941, and sunk in a friendly-fire incident by a fellow hand-me-down ex-US flush-decker under Norwegian flag and a British trawler on May 2, 1942 in her virgin battle patrol.

Zbeletryzowana opowiesc o historii Jastrzebia, od podrozy na s/s Cathay, szkolenie, po pierwszy i ostatni patrol bojowy. Wypis z lektury "Torpedy w celu" Romanowskiego.