DAIREN DOCK/SOVIET CHINESE SHIPBUILDING COMPANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600050270-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 270
• Publication Date: February 23, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONIDENTLii.
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Dairen Dock/Soviet Chinese Shipbuilding Company
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1. The Dairen Dock was taken over by the USSR military immediately after they
moved into the Dairen area in 1945. They preserved the installation intact
instead of stripping it as they did many of the industrial plants. The Dock
remained under USSR control for several years but later, about 1950 if I re-
member correctly, it was transferred to joint USSR-Chinese control and re-
named the Soviet-Chinese Shipbuilding Company. The company has a payroll of
rou;hly eight thousand workmen and 250 engineers. 'W'hen Lhe Soviet )::ilitti_y
took the dockyard over they kept on the technical staff of 150/200 Japanese
engineers and treated them well. The Japanese have been replaced gradually
by Russians and as of March 1953 only two or three Japanese were employed
there. Approximately one-third of the present technical staff of 250 consists
of "Moscow Russians" C e USSR citizens sent out by the Soviet governmen7
and two-thirds of "Manchurian Russians" J Y emigrants of long residence in
Manchuria and their children without regard to political coloration. The
Hoscov Russians are paid about ten times as much as the Manchurian Russians.
The pay of the latter approximates that of Chinese in equivalent positions.
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the real control is by the USSR. The dockyard is an important installation
from the Soviet point of view because it provides ice-free ship repair and
building facilities during the winter months when the Siberian Maritime
Province ports are frozen in. I have seen as many as 30 USSR ships at one
time in for repairs during winter months. These were from four thousand to
seven thousand ton ships, the larger ones fer the most part being Liberties.
They were dirty, run-down and in deplorable condition.
The Japanese had excellent ship repair and building facilities in Japan and
had allowed the Dairen Dock installations to deteriorate to some extent.
When the Soviet administration took over the lock it set to work immediately
to rehabilitate the fa:lities. Nothing significant was added to the equip-
ment but the buildings and shops were repaired or in some cases completely
rebuilt. The Japanese would hardly recognize the place now.
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4. The dockyard yar?d is ` now a /Pring 19J
53 working feverishly on a lighter and tug
building program, ,
5. The lighters are steel flush deck craft. They have pumping equipment and pre-
sumably co are intended for use as tankers. They are being built in two sizes,
smaller of 200/300 tons capacity and the larger of 500 tons capacity. When
completed they are sent to the Maritime Province.
6. The,tugs are steel '
converted lmilitaarry tank about ht in length. They are
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factory marks in Russian and undoubtedly were of USSR manufacture. At least
200 such tugs were being built. We were,told that these tugs were destined for
the Baltic. I doubt this and think it much more probable that they are for use
on the Siberian I'llacific coast. They would, be useful If the USSR should become
in 4-.land bopping operations in the Aleutians.
7? In addition to these small tugs the Dock was building two or three larger ones
of perhaps 500 tons. These I was told would be powered with one thousand horse-
power engines.
8. A British-built Chinese cruiser was in the Dock for repairs for about a year.
Unfortunately, think, tntI cannot recall her name, it was something like Chiang Hsia I
or any identifying characteristics,` not even how many stacks she had.
I do recall that her main battery consisted of six 8-inch guns. She had been
sunken, perhaps atHulutao, and bad been under water for several months. However,
damage was less than would have been expected as her guns and engines had peen
greased. She left dock on completion of work early in 1953.
9. The Dock is capable of building fairly large vessels. Under the Japanese the
area was restricted but from a distance I have seen ships of I judge about five
thousand tons under construction on the ways. Nothing larger than the bi.,r;;
type of tug mentioned above was built in the Dock during the period 1946-53.
10. During the early period of Soviet control the Dock's principal source of supply
for raw materials was the stockpile left by the Jspanese. Later in 1947-49 steel
plates, timbers, ate wore obtained from the WO and were brought in chiefly by
sea, I believe. Still later say from 1950 on snplies cams both from the USSR
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