SHIP CONSTRUCTION IN EAST GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000200600004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 10, 2009
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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East Germany REPORT
SUBJECT Ship Construction in East Germany DATE DISTR.
17 February 1953
NO. OF PAGES
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DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED '
REQUIREMENT
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
Since the Neptun Terft$ Rostock, was taken over as a VEB under East.
German management, no capital investment funds have been made available
for 1952, although money was to be allotted for this purpose according
to the agreement reached with the Soviet Control Commission on 1 May 1952,
Under the war reparations deliveryprogram,: the USSR has ordered three
types of passenger ships from.East German shipyards. The number of vessels
ordered is not known.1 The respective lengths of the three types are as
I - 100 meters
II - 65 meters
III - 45 meters
It is believed that they are intended for use on Russian inland waterways.
Vessels of type III are to.be built at the Rothensee shipyards as far as the
superstructure, and then completed at the Stralsund yards. The keels of ships of
type I have been laid..in Wismar 2 and Warnemuende3. The steel plate to be used
for these vessels is of good quality and is supplied from the USSR.
The cable crane installation being constructed by Bleichert Tranrortanlagenfabrik,
Leipzig, of SAG Transmasch, for the Wismar shipyards is schedule4 for completion
by the end of 1952. Because of the lack'-of copper,: the thinner of the underground.
cables required for the extensions to the shipyards at Wismar, Warnemuende, and
Stralsund are being made of aluminum. Difficulty is 'being experienced, however,
with cables of 240 mm. diameter.
4. A test basin for research in the construction of new types of ships is to be
built tither in Friedrichsfeld near Berlin or in Stralsund; a definite decision
is to be made in the near future;
X ARMY
(Note Washington Distribution indlcatod By "X": Mold Distribution By
"#".)
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Comments-.
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on 4 March 1952, both the Russians 25X1
and HV Schiffbau proposed that six passenger ships, 800 HP be
constructed at the Staatswerft Rothensee, and four p4esenaer
ships, 1,200 EP at the Mathias Thesen Werft, Wismar. 25X1
the Mathias Thesen Werf25X1
Wismar is to deliver five 59 m. river passenger ships as reparations
in 1953. 25X1
3. Previous reports indicated that six 65 m. river passenger ships were
to be constructed on the new slip at the Warnow-Werft Warnemuende
to be delivered in 1953 as reparations. 25X1
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