NEW AND REFITTED SOVIET VESSELS PUT IN SERVICE VESSEL LOCATIONS AND TRAFFIC IN USSR, FOREIGN WATERS

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• Publication Date: February 16, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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LANGUAGE
CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Water transport
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers; weekly, monthly
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED Sep 1953-3 Jan 1954
120;
50X1-HUM
INFORMATION 1953-1954
REPORT
CD NO.
DATE OF
DATE DIST. /(, Feb 1954
periodicals
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
NEW AND REFITTED SOVIET VESSELS PUP IN SERVICE;
VESSEL L ATIONS AND 'PRA? IC IN USSR, FOREIGN WATBRS
RR CAR FERRIES, OTHER SHIPS, NEW PUSHING TUG -- Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda,
12 Nov 53
Two railroad car river ferries, the Chulym and the Severnyy, have been
sent to Odessa from Arkhangel'sk. The ships left Arkhangel'sk at the end of
September and sailed through heavy seas in the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean
before reaching the Mediterranean Sea and finally the Black Sea and Odessa.
This was the first such voyage made by river ferries not having seagoing
characteristics.
Both of these ships were built by Soviet shipyards and both are powered
esel-electric engines. Each can carry an average of 32 railroad cars at
a time.
The ferries will be put in service in the Black sea between the shores
of the Kerchenskiy Straits.
Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 13 Oct 53
The Soviet diesel-electric ship Ob'has been launched at the De Schelde
shipyard in Vlessingen, Netherlands.
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Moscow, Pravda, 3 Jan 54
The cargo-passenger ship SIB A1eksandr Mozhayskiy has gone to sea on her
first voyage after extensive rebuilding and overhauling. The ship will cross
several seas and oceans to deliver freight to the Soviet Far East.
Accommodations of all three classes have been completely outfitted on the
ship, as well as a music salon, a lounge, dining rooms, a motion picture theater,
and a library
Moscow, Ogcr,ek, No 49, Dec 53
The SIB Vsevolod Vishnevskiy, under the command of Captain Safronov, has
completed its first navigation season.
During 1953, the new passenger ship sailed on the Volga and Kama rivers
between Gor'kiy and Molotov.
Leningradskaya Pravda, 3 Nov 53
The Leningrad Central Planning and Design Bureau of the Ministry of Mari-
time and River Fleet has developed a new 150-horsepower diesel tug. On 1 Oct-
tober, the Mossudoverf' Shipyard in Moscow will launch the prototype of this
vessel.
The new tug is specially designed and equipped for the pushing method of
barge propulsion. The design bureau, under the direction of Chief Engineer
M.N. Brezhnev, developed a new aevice which will replace the rudder on these
vessels. Experience has shown that a tug used for barge pushing must have a
very strong rudder and quick response to course changes. In this new design,
the tug and tow will change course with the turning of a jet of water installed
at the stern of the towing vessel. The maneuverability of the tow is consider-
ably increased by the new apparatus, and the tow speed is increased by 15-20
per^ent.
Central hydraulic controls have been installed which allow a single man
to control the entire towing operation. Communication with the barges will
be maintained by telephone.
After trials, which will take place in November, the new-type tug will
L= put into mass production.
The design bureau is now working on new types of 300- to 600-horsepower
pushing tugs.
SOVIET VESSELS IN FOREIGN WATERS -- Moscow, Izvestiya, 3 Jan 54
The S/S Stalingrad, under the command of Captain Aleksandr P. Babenko,
left Vladivostok recently for the western part of the USSR. The trip will be
made via southern waters. The ship stopped for several days in Shanghai and
then continued on into the Indian Ocean.
The M/V Taganrog, under the command of Captain Mikhaylov, is in the Red
Sea en route from Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia with cargo for China.
The vessel has already traveled more than 4,900 miles.
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Mosco'i, Izvestiya, 30 Dec 53
The tanker Tuapse has transferred fuel oil and fresh water to the whale
processing ship Slava by direct hose connections in Antarctic waters. Potatoes,
apples, onions, salted produce, fresh fish, pigs, and cows were also put aboard.
Mail and newspapers were delivered for the crew.
Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 5 Nov 53
The S/S Omsk is en route to the Finnish port of Mantyluoto on the Gulf of
Bothnia.
The S/S Vtoraya Pyatiletka is making a voyage from the Baltic Sea to China
and back, a distance of 26,000 miles.
Leningradskaya Pravda, 7 Nov 53
The S/S Sovetskaya Gavan' is under way in the Atlantic Ocean at present.
NAVIGATION CURTAILED ON VOLGA-DON CANAL -- Kishinev, Sovetskaya Moldaviya,
6 Nov 5-A
Navigation is coming to a close on the Volga-Don Canal. All passenger
traffic has ceased on the Moscow-Rostov line, where the diesel-electric ships
Rossiya, Gruziya, and Azerbaydzhan operated during the year.
More than 120,000 persons sailed through the Volga-Don Canal duri,ig the
1953 navigation season.
Passenger vessels are continuing to operate on the Rostov-Stalingrad line
despite storms on the Tsimlyanskaya Reservoir. A new passenger line was opened
recently between Tsimlyanskaya Port and Kalach.
WATER TRANSPORT PLAN RESULTS -- Moscow, Pravda, 1 Jan 54
Workers in the maritime and river fleets have completed the 1953 navi-
gation plan.
Moscow, Izvestiya, 1 Nov 53
The Kama Steamship Line finished its 1953 dry cargo shipping plan on
24 October. At that time it had carried 8 percent more freight than was
carried during the entire 1952 navigation season.
Kiev. Pravda Ukrainy, 3 Nov 53
The Moscow-Volga Steamship Line completed the 1953 navigation plan on
2 Nxmmte . Seven percent more freight was transported during 1953 than duri.ig
195i.
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PORT EXTENDED AT MOLOTOV -- Moscow, Gudok, 25 Dec 53
A considerable amount of work is being carried out on the landing stages
of the port of Molotov, which extends for hundreds of meters along the Kama
River. The space between the concrete mooring wall and the shore is being
filled in. Suction dredges, excavators, bulldozers, and dump trucks are being
used in the operation.
Oh the part already completed, paving and ballasting are under way pre-
paratory to laying rails for portal cranes.
VESSEL LOCATIONS AND TRAFFIC --,Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 1 Nov 53
The following vc -'s are operating with the West Siberian Steamship
Line: S/S Stepan Razi.., S/S Marshal Vasilevskiy, S/S Shchors, M/V Sergey
Laze, and the cargo-passenger vessel S/S Khokhryakov.
Moscow, Rybnoye Khozyaystvo, No 9, Sep 53
The trawler Kasatka is operating with the Murmansk Administration of the
trawler fleet.
Moscow, Trud, 3 Nov 53
The S/S Mironych (Northern Steamship Company), en route from Arkhangelsk
to Odessa, reports that she is off the coast of Algeria after 27 days of sailing.
The S/S Vyatka (Northern Steamship Company) has completed her 1953 plan
and has delivered 2,000 tons of consumer goods above plan to the far northern
area.
Leningradskaya Pravda, 7 Nov 53
The S/S Sevastopol' is underway in the Sea of Okhotsk.
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