SHIP REPAIRS AND SHIPBUILDING IN GDYNIA AND GDANSK (DANZIG)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006500490002-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 11, 2008
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 20, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
S-E-C-R-E-T
NCFORN
This materiel contains information asecttns the 1te-
tional Defense of the united states within the mien
ins of the I spionase laws, This lt. U.L.Q. secs. 113
and 794, the trena-nlselon or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorised person is prohibited
by law.
COUNTRY Poland
SUISJECT Ship Repairs and Shipbuilding DATE DISTR.
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20 June 1955
in Gdynia and Gdansk (Danzi
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. On 12 January 1955, a large cargo ship of about 10-12,000 tons gross was being
refitted in Basin No. 6. This ship was originally, in 1939-1940, under construction
in Denmark for the Blue Star Line. When the Germans overran Denmark they completed
the ship which sailcd under the name of SEEBOHM. The ship was sunk in the Baltic
and was raised by the Poles in August 1954. She is now being rebuilt.
3.
In addition to the SEEBOHM, the following were in Basin No. 6:
a. Two locally built 600-ton d.w. coasters, fitting out for the USSR.
b. One small merchant ship, being r 6f'Ltted.
c. Two warships of unknown nationality were alongside. The masts were the only
parts visible.
Gdansk (Danzig)
The Gdansk shipyard will complete its first 10,000-ton cargo ship in the'suamler of
1955. These cargo ships are to be single-screw diesels.
the cargo ships will be entirely of Polish
die el engines .
construction, including the-diesels. He could not, or would not, say where the
engines were being built but insisted that Poland is capable of constructing
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