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Karol Olgierd Borchardt

a Polish writer and captain of the Polish Merchant Marine

25 march 1905 -20 may 1986

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This ship is Borchardt's favourite ship.

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Private life

As a child, after his father left for the war, he and his mother left for Paris. In 1911 he returned to Poland, where he lived in Vilnius. When he was 15, he volunteered in the Polish-Bolshevik war during which he was wounded and received the cross of valor for the first time. In 1924, after graduating from high school, he entered the Faculty of Law of the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius.

During his stay in Great Britain, unable to swim, he began to write maritime stories, which became the essence of his work. In the years 1942–1945 he worked in various British institutions. After the war, he was the organizer and then the director of the Polish maritime gymnasium and high school in Landywood, England.

In 1925 he began his education at the Maritime School in Tczew, which he graduated in 1928, then he sailed on passenger transatlantic liners of Gdynia-America Lines Żeglugowe SA, successively performing officer functions. In 1936 he received the master's diploma of great shipping. In 1938, he started working at the State Maritime School in Gdynia, taking the position of deputy commander of the Dar Pomorza school sailing ship.

In Poland, he worked at the State Maritime Education Center, at the Technical School of Sea Fishing in Gdynia and at the Gdynia Sea Fisheries School. In September 1, 1968, after the merger of the Sea Fishing School with the State Maritime School, the Gdynia Maritime University was established, where he lectured until his retirement in November 1970.

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Wars and battles

At the age of 15, he participated as a volunteer in the Polish-Bolshevik war, during which he was wounded and received the Cross of Valor for the first time.At the age of 15, he participated as a volunteer in the Polish-Bolshevik war, during which he was wounded and received the Cross of Valor for the first time.

• Polish-Bolshevik War

The outbreak of World War II found him on Dara Pomorza during a school cruise. On the orders of the authorities, he went to Stockholm, and then to Scotland. Then he returned to GAL and sailed on passenger ships converted into transports. He became a senior officer of the Polish flagship passenger ship MS Piłsudski and in November 1939, survived its sinking, during which he was seriously wounded in the head.

• II World War

He became a senior officer of another ocean liner, MS Chrobry, and in 1940 survived its bombing and sinking in the Norwegian campaign. For the evacuation of Chrobry's crew, he was again awarded the Cross of Valor.

• Norwegian campaign

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Memory of Karol Olgierd Borchardt

At the initiative of various circles, permanent traces of the memory of Captain Borchardt were created

• A commemorative plaque in the Alley of Merit of Sea People in Rewa, unveiled in 2005
• Karol Olgierd Borchardt's cabin on the "Dar Pomorza"
• Hall named after Cpt. K. O. Borchardt in Maritime School in Gdynia
• Main Library named after Cpt. Karol Olgierd Borchardt at the Maritime University of Gdynia
• A commemorative plaque in Gdynia,on the building of his house
• A commemorative plaque in honor of Capt. with. w. K. O. Borchardt at the Faculty of Navigation, unveiled in 2001 at the Maritime University in Gdynia

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Memory of Karol Olgierd Borchardt

• An exhibition in memory of Karol Olgierd Borchardt at the Coastal Defense Museum in Hel, opened on July 22, 2008.
• The bust of Karol Olgierd Borchardt placed in the hall of the Navigation Department of the Gdynia Maritime University at al. John Paul II
• A schooner (sailing vessel)"Kapitan Borchardt", baptized on 8 October 2011.
• Names of streets in Gdynia, Gdansk, Slupsk, Kosakowo
• Patron of schools in Gdynia, Rumia, Gdansk, Strzeblin,

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