Adding to this impressive picture and story,
let me just mention, that a bad luck with the name, experienced by Polish Steamship Co. did not scary away the Polish Ocean Lines,
so we received the next "WROCLAW" in form of an impressive RO-RO:
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S/s WROCŁAW, a steam-powered general cargo ship, built by the German shipyard Schiffbauges in Flensburg for the Hamburg shipowner Otto A. Muller. Launched on August 3, 1935 as OTTO ALFRED MULLER, she entered service on October 13 of the same year. After a collision with the ship KARSTEN MILLES (December 21, 1935) she sank in the roadstead of Gdynia. Raised, towed to the repair yard in Gdańsk (at that time the Free City of Gdańsk). After repairs, she continued to work for her owners until August 17, 1944, when in Szczecin (at that time still a German city) she was bombed by Allied planes, caught fire and sank. Wreck raised by the Rescue and Towing Department of the GAL company (Gdynia-America Linie Żeglugowe) in early 1947. Towed to Gdynia Shipyard for reconstruction. At that time, it was given the name WROCŁAW and assigned to Zegluga Polska.
Polish Ocean Lines (PLO) - SINCE 02ND jANUARY 1951 .The repair was completed and the ship was commissioned on February 24, 1951, and on March 1 the ship set off on its first voyage under the Polish flag, with a load of coals to Antwerp. On January 10, 1952, the ship was handed over to Polska Żegluga Morska (PZM - today known as POLSTEAM). In June 1961, the sailors of a German ship moored nearby, in the port of Antwerp, maliciously dropped the mooring lines from the bollards and the Polish ship drifted around the port basin, posing a serious threat to other vessels. The incident was widely covered by the Polish press, morka and not only. Fortunately, the situation was brought under control with the help of port tugboats and there was no material damage. In December 1962, in the Kiel Canal while in transit with a German pilot on board, the ship stopped to provide assistance to a damaged German-flagged TAUR ship. During this time, there was a collision with a speedboat named HEDWIG. s/s WROCLAW sank in the Gulf of Riga on April 6, 1968, after hitting a rocky shoal near the island of Saarema. The incident took place while traveling from Gdańsk to Helsinki. The crew of the Polish ship was picked up from lifeboats by the BRIT ship flying the Finnish flag.

Technical data.

Call sign : SPCV
Flag : Poland
Home port: Gdynia, since 1952 SZCZECIN
Tonnage (1935) 1740BRT, 642NRT, 2473tDW
Tonnage (1951) 1760GRT; 738NRT; 2430tDW
dimensions: 83.10 x 12.62 x 5.20 [m]
Decks : 2
Holds / hatches: 4/4
Crew: 28 men
Steam propulsion: 1 double expansion steam engine
OTTENSENER MASCHNENBAU type LENZ
1300 horsepower
Number of screws: 1
Steam boilers: Double-fired SCOTTISH type, coal-fired,
from 1958 converted to fuel oil;
Speed: 10.5 knots
Class : BC/(1939)GL / 1956 PRS

The name WROCŁAW was not happy for the ships of the Szczecin shipowner (PZM) and for ships under the Polish flag. The next ship named WROCLAW II (B522/5) - built in the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk - sank near the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea on April 4, 1974. Fortunately, the crew (27 sailors and officers) was rescued by the French escort ship GUEPRATTE.