SHIPYARD AT KRESICE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 14, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 12, 1954
• 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.B. Oode. 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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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Shipyard; at Krasice
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
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DATE DISTR. 12 February 1954
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REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
The ihjpyard at Kresioe (N 5l/' 55) only does repair.work, mostly on the metal hulls
of bare and steamers. Since no repair work is done in the Prague and Usti nad
labem shipyards, the shipyard at Kresioe is kept Very busy.
2. The yard has two drydooks where barges are repaired (Nos. I and II on Sketch No. 2,
annexed). Drydook No. II was constructed in 1952. Both are of concrete and either
three steamers and one barge oe bix, barges ban: b4 tepa3rdd at the, eats ...time . in' eaa+ h of
them. There is another berth on the river (No. III on Sketch No. 2) where three
craft can be repaired at one time. This dock in protected by a concrete mole.
3. There is no railroad track to the shipyard, and all material is brought in by
Sketch Nos. 4 and 5).
The shipyard has about 150 permanent employees; when necessary, they are helped out
by work brigades, whose members are mostly local women. Numbers of these brigades
are paid for their work.
tractor-trailer. The workshops and docks are connected by narrow gauge tracks.
The two docks are identical. Each has three tracks of three- and-one-half meter
gauge. On each track there is a carrier which is used to haul the craft out of
the water. The carrier is operated by an electric winch. It rune down underneath
the craft in the water and pulls it up to the dry-berthing position. When the
craft has reached the final position (See Sketch No. 3, Noe. 1-6) it is hoisted up
and supported by beams, leaving the carrier free and the craft in position for
repairs. The carrier is about 11 meters long - approximately the width of the
vessels it carries - and five meters wide. (For construction of the carrier, see
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Kresice Repair Shipyard
Sketch No. ].
Map. ref. 1:25,000
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Sketch No. 5
Front view.
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Sresice Shipyards:
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Sketch No. 2
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Legend to sketches:
Sk tch No. 1:
(1) Location of Shipyard,
Sketch No,-g-.
I and II: dry docks.
(6)
Administration building; two stories, of brick.
Boiler house, locksmiths and turners; two stories, of brick.
Smithy'; building'with brick foundations and sliding ddors.
Wooden shed used for storage.
New workshop under construction; to be finished late in 1953.
believed that it will be used as an extension of the turner's
locksmith's shops.
Crane; capacity, 2,000
III: Berth on the river.
(7) Concrete mole.
!S) Road to Kresice.
(~) Railroad tracks.
Wire fence.
Sketch No.-3:
(1) Part of.concrete dock.
(2) Rail track.
(3) Carrier.
(4) Winch.
kgs.
B 1-6: craft in dry berth.
Sketches 4 and 59
(1) Iron platform of carrier
2 Wedges (used to keep craft in position).
3) Cable connecting carrier to winch.
B 6; Bottom of craft.
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