On 30 August 1939 the Polish destroyers ORP Burza, and were ordered to execute the Peking Plan, and the warships headed for Great Britain. On 1 September 1939 Polish destroyers met the Royal Navy destroyers and. The British ships led the Polish ships to Leith, and at night the Polish destroyers arrived at Rosyth. In 1940 Burza supported British forces off Norway in April and in the English Channel in May. On 4 May Burza came alongside the battleship and took aboard Polish survivors who had survived the sinking of ORP Grom earlier that day. On 24 May 1940 Burza was ordered to join the Royal Navy destroyers and and shell German positions that were besieging Calais, providing support for British troops ashore. At 16.20 the Allied vessels opened fire on enemy armoured column at Sangatte Hill west of Calais. 10 minutes later they were attacked by 27 German aircraft which hit and sank Wessex. Vimiera managed to escape. Then the entire enemy air group concentrated on the Polish destroyer. Shrapnel hits jammed her two 40 mmanti-aircraft guns. Three bombs exploded in the water, damaging her boilers and reducing her speed. Then two bombs exploded in the water near or in her bows, forcing Burza to return to Dover stern first Midshipman Konstanti Okolow-Zubkowski serving on Burza recalled that when back at Dover an admiral came aboard complaining that debris was being thrown over the side of the ship. The admiral, when shown the forepeak, apologised, not having realised how badly damaged Burza was. After major repairs in Portsmouth, Burza escorted convoy HX 217 as part of Escort Group B6. While attached to Escort Group B-3, Burza escorted convoys ONS 167, HX 228, and SL 147/MKS 38. Burza was detached from ONS 167 to defend Convoy ON 166. While attached to Support Group 8, Burza escorted convoy SC 145 and the October 1943 convoy to establish British air bases in the Azores. In 1944 Burza became a training ship. In 1945 she became a submarine tender for Polish submarines. The Polish crew left Burza in 1946, when she was transferred to the Royal Navy. In 1951 the ship was returned to the Polish Navy and towed to Gdynia in July. Burza was overhauled and entered service in 1955. In 1960 she became a museum ship. After Błyskawica replaced her in that rôle she was scrapped in 1977.
