ORP Kraków

	ORP Kraków on 31 July 2012.
History
Poland
Name	Kraków
Namesake	Kraków
Builder	Northern Shipyard, Gdańsk
Laid down	18 August 1988
Launched	7 March 1989
Commissioned	27 June 1990
Identification	MMSI number: 261230000; Callsign: SOWE; ; Pennant number: 823;
Status	Active
General characteristics
Class and type	Lublin-class minelayer-landing ship
Tonnage	1675 tones
Length	95.8 m (314 ft 4 in)
Beam	10.8 m (35 ft 5 in)
Depth	2.38 m (7 ft 10 in)
Installed power	3x Cegielski-Sulzer 6ATL25D 1320 kW each
Speed	16.5 knots
Capacity	9 landing vessels up to 45 tones each
Armament	2 × ZU-23-2MR units composed of two 23 mm guns and two Strela-2M surface-to-air missile system; 9 × ŁWD 100/5000 launching tubes;

ORP Kraków (823) is a Lublin-class minelayer-landing ship of Polish Navy, named after the city of Kraków.

Construction and career

The ship was built at the Northern Shipyard in Gdańsk. The main designer was MSc. Stanisław Keński. The keel was laid on 18 August 1988 and the ship was launched on 7 March 1989; the godmother is Mrs. Krystyna Rafa. The flag was raised on 27 June 1990.^[1]^[2]

ORP Kraków is the second ship in history to bear this name. The first was the river monitor, built in the Kraków shipyard of Fabryka Zieleniewski. She served in the years 1926-39.^[3]