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3rd Ship Flotilla of Polish Navy
3 Flotylla Okrętów
Shoulder sleeve insignia
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
Insignia
3 FO Command distinctive unit insignia

3rd Ship Flotilla (Polish: 3 Flotylla Okrętów (3 FO)) is a tactical unit of the Polish Navy composed of 11 subunits. 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.

Sub-Units

• Submarine Unit (Dywizjon Okrętów Podwodnych)
• Combat Ship Squadron (Dywizjon Okrętów Bojowych)
• Support Unit (Dywizjon Okrętów Wsparcia)
• Reconnaissance Group (Grupa Okrętów Rozpoznawczych, gOR)
• 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

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. Flotylla Okrętów
2. "..:: :: Aktualności ::." wp.mil.pl. Retrieved 17 July 2015. in Polish

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