SOVIET WARSHIPS IN VENTSPILS HARBOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000900260007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 29, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUI3JEC7 Soviet Warships in Ventspils Harbor
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At about 1 p.m. on 27 Decer_ber 1952, a ship which had loaded about
600 tons of cement and engine ra +'-a in Rostock from 18 to 22 December
1952 put into Ventapile Harbor (N 57-24, E 21-31) and berthed at the
loading pier on the eastern bank of the river where the Soviet
merchant shipTi L :T'S also unloaded cerent and engine parts from Rostock.
2 T'nurtean vessels of the Krc.nshtadt class
I were on the west s:LLde near the navy barracks installations
Ventsxtils Harbor. They were 1pertbed.,s -d.e.by side in groups of three
at the pier. Two boats had radar equipment at nasts. Other
vessels, tied up there, included ninesweepers
I I and three tical vessels
Also seen were FT boats
which had a non-built-in torpedo tube on eac~d
side of the cenn ng wheelho)use, one twin-barreled AA machine gun on
the foredeck and one on the fantail and a pear-shaped radar device on
top of the conning wheelhouse.
I I were larger and longer than the. other PT-boats.
Other vessels at the navy pier included: a motor vessel (no funnel'
which was about 50 meters long, had no armatment, carried
the battle ensign, had a heavy net winch and two cranes on the stern;
and no superstructures on the fantail and was a
netlayer; and vessel .0 which was between 60 and 70 me ere long,
had two funnels and one rest and was a former type-
F-7 German escort vessel. Soviet su . e alongside
Two Soviet navy tugboat:, a large one which an estireated 650 p
and resembled the former Cter:_.an "Passat" of the 'Kiel Navy ; higy+I rd
and a small one with an ertirated engino power of about 450 ^, lay
at the navy pier with steam un.
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