Worek Plan - Aftermath

Aftermath

Orzeł abandoned her sector on 4 September and on 15 September docked in the Estonian port of Tallinn for rest and repairs (international law allowed 24 hours before the ship was to be interned). The ship was seaworthy and after the Estonians attempted to take control of her, she escaped and reached the United Kingdom by 14 October: this event is known as the Orzeł incident. She was eventually sunk in 1940.

Ryś, damaged and unable to engage Germans units, eventually was interned in a Swedish port from 17 September.

Sęp was heavily damaged by a German destroyer on 2 September. She abandoned Plan Worek on the 4th and headed to Sweden, where she and her crew were interned from 17 September.

Wilk was the first Polish submarine to arrive in the United Kingdom; unlike Orzeł her captain decided not to dock at a continental port and risk internment, but to head straight for the British Isles, where Wilk arrived on 20 September. She survived the war.

Żbik was the only Polish submarine to succeed in sinking a German vessel during the campaign. On 1 October one of the mines she had laid sunk the German minesweeper M-85. Increasingly damaged and low on provisions, she was interned in a Swedish port from 25 September.