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Ships of the Second Polish Republic
Our third album in the MOTO RETRO series features the fleet of the Second Polish Republic. When Poland re-emerged on the map of Europe as an independent country following World War I, it simultaneously gained a 140-kilometre-long strip of the Baltic coast and immediately began the construction of strategic shipbuilding hubs.
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- Introduction
- Rogowski Grzegorz
- Editor
- Łoziński Jan
- Graphic design
- Barecki Andrzej
- Format
- 205 x 275 mm
- Pages
- 114
- Number of images
- 138
- ISBN
- 978-83-7576-293-8
- EAN
- 9788375762938
- Binding
- twarda
- Issue number
- I
- Year of publication
- 2016
- Language
- Polish
Our third album in the MOTO RETRO series features the fleet of the Second Polish Republic. When Poland re-emerged on the map of Europe as an independent country following World War I, it simultaneously gained a 140-kilometre-long strip of the Baltic coast and immediately began the construction of strategic shipbuilding hubs. A tiny fishing village of Gdynia was selected as the best location for the future gigantic port capable of handling ocean-going ships, Polish government started investing in the purchase of merchant vessels, and in the 1930s it acquired transatlantic ocean liners M.S. Batory and M.S. Piłsudski which were designated to serve the flagship Gdynia-New York connection, while sail training shipsLwów (Lviv) and Dar Pomorza (The Gift of Pomerania) turned out new well-qualified batches of sailors and navigators. It was in the interwar Poland that the national Sea Day holiday was established and has been since celebrated nationwide, from Gdynia to Cracow. The photographs in the album are courtesy of the National Digital Archive. The introduction has been written by Grzegorz Rogowski, author of the book Pod polską banderą przez Atlantyk (Crossing the Atlantic under the Polish flag)
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Our third album in the MOTO RETRO series features the fleet of the Second Polish Republic. When Poland re-emerged on the map of Europe as an independent country following World War I, it simultaneously gained a 140-kilometre-long strip of the Baltic coast and immediately began the construction of strategic shipbuilding hubs.