ORP Dragon [2]
Dragon Light cruiser
Face value: 2 pln
Alloy: (CuAl5Zn5Sn1) NG
Diameter: 27 mm
Weight: 8.15 g
Finish: standard
Mintage: 800000 pcs
On the edge: an inscription, NBP, repeated eight times, every second one inverted by 180 degrees, separated by stars
Additional: no
Date of issue: 2012-10-18
Issue price: 2 pln
Designer: Andrzej Nowakowski
Designer: Ewa Tyc-Karpińska
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Light battle cruiser “Dragon” was the first battle ship of this
class, operated by the Polish navy. She was built in the years 1917-
1918 by the shipyard Scott’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Company
Limited of Greenock for the British Royal Navy, as a prototype
of the series of eight type ”D” light battle cruisers. These eight
battle cruisers also included ORP [in Polish: Okręt Rzeczpospolitej
Polskiej – Ship of the Republic of Poland] “Conrad”, the second
Polish ship of this class.
During her service in the Royal Navy, the then HMS “Dragon”
sailed almost all the seas and oceans. In the final year of World
War I, the ship took part in patrols in the North Sea. The outbreak of
World War II found the ship in Great Britain. Between ...