Two decades of Iks's naval service

Abstract

The article is an analysis of the twenty years of service of the vessel ORP Kontradmirał Xawery Czernicki, one of the most active and effectively used ships of the Polish Navy. Czernicki raised the Naval ensign on September 1, 2001 and in the next two years participated in the Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom operations, as part of the coalition naval forces in the Persian Gulf region. It first appeared under the NATO flag in 2010, when it became the command unit of the Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1 – SNMCMG1. He performed this role again in 2013, and four years later, he became the first Polish vessel assigned to serve in the NATO SNMCMG2, operating in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. The author analyzed the reasons for such intensive service and the activity in the social dimension of popularizing the achievements of the Polish Navy.