FORMER ODER WERKE SHIPYARD IN SZCZECIN (STETTIN)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004600400003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2007
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 26, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. In April 1954, a total ,,; : x,000 a ; 17,000 persons worked
at the Oder, 'Jerke shipyard an Stettin. About 200 or 300 now workers
were hired .eery month. JendtL (fnu), a Sovi-t citizen,was general
manager of the yard; Haluch (fnu), a Soviet citisei, was managing
engineer; and Jakubiec 'fnu), Zukoye (fnu), two Soviet citisens,
and Jankowski (fnu), #ucnanowski (fnu), Ibci.ec (fnu).and Yajewski
(fru), few Pblieh citizens, were leading engineers.
2. The first new ship built by the Oder Nerke was delivered to the
Soviets in 1953 and was ns,ad IOM!'. In late !"arch or early
April 1954, another KHULYM type ship, the Tat, we completed and
delivered to the Soviets.l Three ships of the OISZTYN class
(Olestyn . i:fln"stein) were nearing their final outfit. On 24
April 1954, anotLer three ships were nearing completion on the
three building slips. Their construction numbers were 35a through
35c. They were also destined for the USSR.
3. The Iblish merchant snips KUrNO, KRAYAI,aad HiOCLAW were expected
to arrive for repairs durin- the -'aond quarter of 1954. The Fblieb
merchant &5p SAN was due to be over... oi there in the now
future.
i. i as -'", ~v l FFI DISTriquTiO4
A total of fifteen componort parts of sebewriaes arrived at the
shipyard from Upper Silesia in late tebnary 1954 and were stored
on a site at the rear of a workshop building. Thee. parts ware
between four and five meters long, of cylindrical or conical
shape, and had diametcLa frcr t:ree to five maters. 2 Another
fin sections arrived from Uppa- Silesia on cargo barges or bpr
rail from Rost Goa.. in tparab 1954. Their dispatch labels only
indicated the name of Gal r s (8eheum.), the harder-croea1n
statics, but no place of departes. The 20 '.notions were stared
in three new buildings, which bed been ompleted in )'arch 1954.
The three buildisp bed red reefs. and were erected fires north to south
parallel to Ludowa road. A new concrete all, about 5 asters high,
had alsc been erected.) Another two shops for processing crank
shefta and a foundry shop were under construction in April 195L.
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Cpranert. Soviet merchant ship TC1 is reported for the
first t9no.
2:. Gc: nert. Probably not sections for sut r.arires, but rather
_if inc- cylinders for raising sunken ships.
3 Current. For layout sketch of the shipyard installations,
see Annex.
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 Le -end to layout __sketch of Oder-':ierketettin.
1 Boiler shoo and carpenter's shop
2 ?amine-buildings and erecting shop
3 Trans.7orner house and electric power plant
4 Yropeller-shr.ft rrocesring; shop
5 Gravi:og dock under construction, alleg;ed.'.y for ships of
up to 20,000 tone
o Slip +o.1
7 Slip 2
U Slip uo. 3 to 50 tons
"ach slip has a traveling crane capable of lifting .}
? Frohijited area with a building
1C kdrinLstration building:
11 retal treating r?achS.nes and engine test stand
12 Const:?uction shop
13 Rolli.ig mill and sheet--t.roating shop. It included, arond other
rachi es, a stear-driven 25--mn,sheet-roll i c i11
14 Flack>mith
15 Unidentified 'building
16 Floating dock No I, fornerly dock ro III of the :htnzig Shipyard.
This Bock is 10 r..eters long and between 15 and 2(' voters wide
and is equ`pred with an electrical pumping syster:
17 Proba'dy the site of the three new buildings with red roofs
on Lu3o'.ra Road. They were used for storing the 20 submarine
sections,