The article was published in Polish. Below is an English translation of its opening. Wersja polska
That whole fleet, which went down in history thanks to the greatest achievement of that war – the tightest blockade of a coastline ever established – is a thing of the past. It was disbanded even faster than it was created. It was allowed to disappear without any attempt to replace obsolete ships with others of a suitable type. The ships went under the hammer as no longer useful in a war whose face had changed completely since the beginning of the American conflict. All that remained was a handful of old vessels…
