SITUATION AT THE GDANSK REPAIR SHIPYARD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005300850004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2007
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Sees. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
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SUBJECT Situation at the Gdansk Repair Shipyard
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The change in June 1954 in calculation of premiums for repair shipyard personnel
in Gdansk (Danzig) has led to the constant transfer of workers from one-ship to
another, so that they can secure their premiums. Workers' earnings are com-
paratively low but they receive high premiums if work on the overhaul of a ship
is completed in time.
2. Thus, if the shipyard administration sees that a ship wi.Ll not be repaired within
a specified time limit, work on her is stopped and the workers are transferred
to another ship which can be completed by the scheduled date. They can then obtain
the premium due.
3. The result of such a system is that some ships remain at the yard for a very long
time. The S.S. OKSYy;IE, for example, has been in the yard for approximately four
months, and so far, very little has been accomplished, only two or three y:orkers
being employed on board.
4. Only one shift is worked from 0700 to 1500 hours. The shipyard is closed on Sundays.
Compared with 1953, many new workers may be seen in the shipyard. They are mostly
young men who have completed their naticnal service with the navy.
5. Again by comparison with 1953, overhaul work is better and more accurately
executed, despite acute shortage of certain materials.Overhaul priority is
given to ships of tie Polish Ocean Lines which, being registered with Lloyds,
had hitherto been overhauled in foreign shipyards. As these ships are being
gradually taken over by the Soviet Register of Ships, they have to be overhauled
in Poland.
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6. The greatest shortages are as follows:
a. Insulators for electrical installations.
b. Electric cables: Gdansk Repair Shipyard was allowed only a very small
allocation of cables this year. It has already been used, and there is
no hope whatever of securing an additional quota. The acute lack of
cables has led to extra economies in their employment. Not only are
old cables not exchanged for new, but they are pulled off and laid
again along the shortest possible runs, so as to save even a piece of
cable to be used on another ship.
c. Linoleum.
d. Non-ferrous metals: these are dismantled whenever possible during a
ship's overhaul, and replaced by installations or fittings made of iron.
7. Two new workshops are nearing completion. One will house the mechanical
engineering plant, the other will be the engine workshop. Both are approxi-
-nately 150 by 30-40 meters. At present the floors are being laid, pre-
paratory to installation of machines and overhead travelling cranes.
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