MISCELLANEOUS MERCHANT MARINE INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003200420006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 15, 2005
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 5, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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SUBJECT Miscellaneous Merchant Marine
Information
25X1DATE OF INFO.
This Document contains information affecsing 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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5 February 1954
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25X11, four underground diesel oil storage tanks located to the north
of ul. Okreznej, Gdynia,we;t of the Paged State Timber Agency. These were built'at
25X1 the time of the German occupation and have a capacity of 10,000 tons each. The
25X1 exact location of the tanks Iaot known
2. Ships are filled with oil (see sketch) from the tanks under pressure by a pipe
with an interior diameter of 150 mm. Wire-protected rubber hoses from the ships
are connected to this pipe by slide valves (zawory zasuwowych) of the same diameter.
The theoretical rate of fuelling is 180 tons per hour; however, the valves are
continually leaking and the pipes, as well as the valves which are of Polish
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which took 14 hours to fuel instead of four hours because the rubber n erior of
the pipe was continually getting stuck together.
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I a cargo of approximately 150 tons of arms in
cases which were oade on o e . MICK]EWICZ. These were stated to be general
cargo in the vustoms declaration, and the cases were labelled "With Care a Qlass".
The loading was carried out where degaussing apparatus is. installed.
6. The Soviet ship PAMYAT ILJISKA is the former German ship VALE, which was sunk, and
in,1950 salvaged by the Polish Ship Salvage Company. She was refitted in the Paris
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Commune shipyard in Gdynia and handed over to the USSR in the middle of 1952.
Her speed is approximately 11 - 12 knots.
the following are the slowest ships of the Polish
M4rchant rte:
$.S. STALOWA WOLA normal speed 7 - 8 knots, maximum 10 knots.
S.S. IEWANT normal speed 8 - 9 knots, maximum 11 knots.
S.S. LECHISTAN normal speed 8 - 9 knots, maximum 11 knots.
S.S. MIKOLAJ REJ normal speed 9 -- 10 knots, maximum 11 knots.
8. The BEM and the WARSZAWA, being equipped with deep tanks for fuel, are able to
accomplish the trip from Poland to China and back without refuelling on route.
Filled to capacity, the BEM's tanks could take 1,800 tons of fuel. Those of
the WARSZAWA, even more. It would be necessary'to reduce the cargo by about
900 - 1,000 tons in order for them to carry their fuel capacity.
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10. The he4vy 120-ton lift boom on the forward mast of the KOSCIUSZKO i not used
at present. It is classified by the Technical Inspector as ha'ing,a lifting
capacity of 120 tons, and is ready for immediate use. The ROSCIUSZKO was
constructed by the Germans to carry locomotives.
11. fihe M.S. BEM has -a crane on deck of 60 ton.capacit 'I ie Tac;inicn't In' cetor
01*seifies it at present as of only 30 tour o~pa~iy.
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