SHIPYARDS AT SZCZECIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004400940008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 14, 2007
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: July 28, 1954
• Content Type: 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 U Prohibited.
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. The Szczecia (Stettin) Repair Shipyard is known as Gryfia and is situated on a
small island in Szczecin harbor. About 300 workers are employed there and it
works two eight-hour shifts per day. It has one dry dock, brought from Gdynia
in August 1952, which is capable of lifting a ship of about 3,000 tons DW. The
yard is employed on the repair of the following type of vessels: small training
ships; coastal vessels of the DIANA and JULIA class, which are of steel construc-
tion and 13 to 14 meters long; fishing cutters and trawlers; and small harbor
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2. This shipyard is not being utilized to capacity and is in the process of being
expanded in the near future. It will undertake the repair of more and larger
vessels.
3. Szczecin (Stettin) Shipyard is situated on the west bank of the mainland, almost
opposite the small island of Gryfia. This yard works three eight-hour shifts
a day. In January 1953 six or seven freighters were under construction in this
shipyard for the Soviet merchant marine. One of the ships was completed and had
the hammer and sickle painted on its funnel, two had been launched but not fit-
ted out, three or four were still on the ways. These vessels are about 100
meters long and about 3,500 tons DW; they have four cargo holds, one funnel
and three masts with derricks. The bridge and funnel are situatedikidships
and the vessels are of the three island type; they are diesel-powered.
4. The Shipyard is also engaged in the construction of small steel fishing cutters,
approximately 25 meters long, for the Polish fishing company Arka.
5. In January 1954 dockyard workers and engineers were being moved from doc dE
in Gdynia and Gdansk to the Szczecin dockyards. It is popularly believed in
Poland that the reason for this is that there has been far too much sabotage
in the Szczecin Shipyard.
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