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| History | |
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 German Empire | |
| Name | A 68 |
| Builder | Schichau-Werke |
| Laid down | 11 April 1917 |
| Launched | 13 June 1917 |
 Second Polish Republic | |
| Name | ORP Kujawiak |
| Launched | 17 September 1921 |
| Decommissioned | 6 April 1939 |
| Fate | sunk in 1939, scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | torpedo boat |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 60 m (196 ft 10 in) |
| Draft | 6.4 m (21 ft 0 in) |
| Propulsion | 2 Schichau-type turbines with a total power of 6,000 hp (4,500 kW), 2 Marine Kessel-type boilers with a pressure of 18.5 kgf/cm2, 2 three-bladed propellers with a diameter of 1.6 m |
| Speed | 26.5 kn (49.1 km/h; 30.5 mph) |
| Range | 800 nmi (1,500 km; 920 mi) |
| Complement | (from 1937, 40 people) 62 people: 2 officers, 60 non-commissioned officers and sailors |
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ORP Kujawiak was a Polish A 56 type torpedo boat, served from 1921 to 1939; formerly the German A 68 from World War I, one of the first ships of the Polish Navy. The vessel was acquired by the navy from the division of Imperial German Navy ships after the end of the war. Struggling with technical issues, the unit served as a training ship from 1929, and then as an auxiliary ship, and was removed from the fleet list shortly before the outbreak of the war. During the Invasion of Poland, it served as a floating reserve oil tank, was sunk by aircraft, and subsequently scrapped.