Adam Mohuczy was a Polish Navy

Polish Navy

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 officer. Captain of several ships and squadrons, Counter Admiral

Counter Admiral

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 from 1946 and Chief of Staff and Commander of the Polish Navy from 1945-1947. In 1949 arrested by Polish secret police

Secret police

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, accused of sabotage, tortured. Died in prison in 1953. In 1957 he was rehabilitated

Rehabilitation (Soviet)

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Biography

Adam was born on 7 March 1891 in Vitebsk

Vitebsk

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, Russian Empire

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. He enlisted in the Russian Navy to become a military officer, finishing the Naval Corps School in Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

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 in 1911.

From 1912 to 1916 he served aboard a training ship, armored cruiser

Armored cruiser

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 General-Admiral class

General-Admiral class cruiser

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 Gerzog Edinburgski, next, armoured cruiser, Rossiya, battleship

Battleship

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 Tsarievitch, and submarine

Submarine

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s Akula

Russian submarine Akula (1908)

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, Bars

Bars class submarine (1915)

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and S-12. Later he was an instructor in Mykolaiv

Mykolaiv

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 Naval Academy. In 1917 he took a course of underwater swimming.

In the aftermath of the First World War, Poland regained independence

Second Polish Republic

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. Adam Mohuczy joined the Polish Navy

Polish Navy

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; first he served in the organizational structures in Warsaw

Warsaw

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 and Toruń

Torun

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He studied and graduated from École de Guerre Navale

École Militaire

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 in Paris

Paris

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in 1926.