PORT OF ONEGA

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2008
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 14, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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303 degrees and was about one and a half nautical miles from
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a t boat with a large barge in tow was seen. The tug; steered a course o
ship. , Another tug and'barge were observed on the opposite side of the s ip
at the same time. The: tugboats both had red bands on their'stacks and a
hammer and sickle' insignia. (see . *etch No,' 1) Each barge had two cranes
forward and :ltwd cranes amidships;`.; each crane. had two booms (see sketch No, 2).
The barges were loaded with lumber,
t N, 66-50, E 41-23, a training ship was seen (see
sketch No. 3). It carried a double gaff sail on the mizzenmast, There
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I in position N 65-59, E 39-0025X1
a tugboat was observed steeringa course of 065 degrees,
when it was off the Murmansk coast, The pilot, who came aboard alone,
was picked up at Cape Letniy Orlov,,(N 64-55, E 36-27). The ship followed
the indicated channel until it'reached the buoy east of Bakla.n, land was
visible during the whole trip. There were not many trees along the shore,
ship sent its: estimated time&-.of arrival over the Vard8 radio 25X1
no settlement other than tbi-lt at Cape Letniy Orlov, From 25X1
e buoy east of Bakla.n and into the harbor there was a channel indicated
by marker buoys. The buoys were placed close together in hairs. There
were red markers to port and black one&to starboard when entering -port,
.The last of the buoys when entering was marked No, 5,
5. In Onega tugboat and several barges with deck cargo. 25X1
There was a hatch fore and aft on each of the barges and the guards went
down into these hatches when inenecting the barges. At thF? extreme after
end of each barge there was a cabin which apparently housed the barge
captain. The only Soviet ship traffic in the harbor was a large seagoing
barge which was loading uncut timber a short distance farther up the river,
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a green flag with insip;nia. on it, an there were naval personnel aboard.
6. Directly out from the far edge of the 25X1
g quay there was a red spar buoy. Seven
to eight hundred feat of the quay's outer section was in very good condition;
the top surface was woodmn. Far.thar in there were only a few pilings but It
could quite easily be used as a waiting nua.y,
7. IV.was discovered that the de-oth along the edge of the quay was 17 feet at
high "tide, but because of the sandbars the shin csould only load to a depth
of 15 feet, 3 inches. When loaded to that death, the shin was aground at
low tide along the quay. It was more than an hour after the tid- bogan to
come in before the shin was afloat again.
There were no cranes on the puny, and only two lumber trucks were available.
The grtay had electric lights which were mournted on movable posts with free
wiring. The only buildlnns on the quay were a tally-house and an office
building - .hich was located at about number 3 on.the German city map of
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river as the quay, and that this sawmill was atr;umber5 on the german city
man. There was a large smokestack 'n the area whic
needed because the sawmill op^rated on waste wood. 25X1
the sawmill indicated by the number 4 on the German map did not exist.
10. At number 6 on the German map there were three slipways by means of which
logs were taken out of the river -ind un into a toyher. From the tower they
were rolled onto land. The settlement above the quay was nartly new and
partly old. The houses were all constructed of wood.
11. The ship pot more than half of its load from the barges which came from a
sawmill on the other side of the river. On the side where the quay was,
there was very little lumber in the yard,
y g on a waters surface. On the bridge sunerstructure there was
a small platform on which three or four rnen stood. The shin had a trinod.-
like mast, made of three, equally thick emotions and with the center section
alone forming the top of the mest. On thQ mast there was an nrdina.ry yard-
arm with flaglines; the antenna on ton of,.the '~as?t was4.riot rotating and
the "spikes" on the antenna were on the back'edge" of the cluster (sic).
The ship had two stacks, and between the stacks there were some yellow objects
which were lifeboats. There were nuns at two levAl s nn 25X1
the foredeck; the uppermost gun was nrobably anatiair?,c.raft. gup.,. On `t'he?'
afterdeck there was _ ain turret and above that wee an antiaircraft gun. 'tivI
miles north of the east point of the R bachi Peninsula N69-42 1110-14)
a naval vessel came out of the Kola Inlet, travelling at about twenty knots.
It proceeded in a northwesterly direction to a point about twenty nautical
miles north of the east noint of the peninsula.; it then turned and came back
the same way it had gone out. On the way out the vessel passed two or
three nautical miles in front of ship; on the wey back the 25X1
distance betweenthe shins wns five to six hundred' meters.
13. The vessel was 400 to 500 feet long and it had a'cruiser stern; the shin
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turrets and the main grin turrets, but he could actually see only one barrel
in each of them.
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The vessel was painted a dark gray and it appeared toe quite new. The
vessel (see sketch No. y). There were no other 25X1
naval vess*ls in the vicinity.
hazy during the observations.
Sketch No. 1:
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Sketch No, 2e
Sketch of. Soviet Bargee
Sketch No. 3:
Sketch of Soviet Training Vessels
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