POLISH MINISTRY OF SHIPPING: CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION OF INLAND WATERWAYS

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2008
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 21, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECS .
COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Polish Ministry of Shipping: Central
Administration of Inland Waterways
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
This material contains information affecting the
National Defense ofthe United States within the
meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C.
Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revel-
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1. The Central Administration of Inland Waterways (Centralny Zarzad Drog
Wodnych Srodladowyeh) of the Polish Ministry of Shipping (Ministerstwo
Zeglugi) is located in Warsaw, at Ulica Emilii Plater 29/31o The Central
Administration of Inland Waterways has branch offices in Wroclaw (Breslau
Szczecin (Stettin), Bydgoszcz, Ddansk (Danzig), Warsaw, and Krakowo
20 The Wroclaw branch office is located at Ulica Kleczkowska 50. The
director of the Wroclaw branch office is Orlowski (fnu)o This office
has two hundred bates under its jurisdiction. They are divided accord-
ing to the following categories: 30 Plau. size (Plauer Maass), 150
Breslau size (Breslauer Mass), 10 Berlin size (Berliner Mass), and 10
canal size (Kemal Mass)1,
3, The Szczecin branch office is located at Ulica Malopolska 440 The office
.has the following tugs under its jurisdiction:
Tug
H. P.
Description
ODRA
180
00
WESTERPLATTE
120
vm
BRZEG
250
MESTWIN
250
Small Dutch type
BOZYDAR
250
Small Dutch type
49 The Wroclaw branch office uses the following
tugs in its operations
i
n:
between Wroclaw and Szczec
GUBIN
500
Two smokestacks
DOLNY SLASK
19200
Two smokestacks
OPOLE
350
Two sm
okesta
cks
KEDZIERZYN
280
One sm
okesta
ck
GLIWICE
280
One sm
okesta
ck
RUiDGOST
500
Large
Dutch
type
ZYWIJA
500
Large
Dutch
type
JAROWID
500
Large
Dutch
type
LADA
500
Large
Dutch
type
TRYGLAW
500
Large
Dutch
type
PERKUN
50 (sic)
Larg
e
Dutch
type
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The Wroclaw 'branch office uses the following tugs in its operations between
Wroclaw and Noma 8.1 (-Neusalz ),
ZEROMSK
22 LIP
FORNALSKA
BP 52
BP 53
H. P.
There are also eight self-propelled barges on this section of the Odero
6. There are two-tugs constantly operating in the Wroclaw harbor0 One of
these is ,the OKRA (sic),
The Wroclaw
Wroclaw and bale (Cosel).
Tug
BOZYMIR
Z)YSZKO
RAPOSLAW
SEDZIWY
JURAND
BOGUMIL
BOWUSLAW
NYSA
LESZNO
MIESZKO I
SCINAWA
H.P. Description
250 Small Dutch type
250 Small Dutch type
250 Small Dutch type
250 Small Dutch type
250 Small Dutch type
250 Built in Kozle as a
250
Description
Passenger type
Passenger type
Self-propelled barge
Training ship
Training ship
replica of a Dutch type
Built in Kozle as a
replica of a Dutch
250 Very old
250 Very old
250 Very old
180 Very old
type
80 The Poles use a very poor grade of coal in their tugs and this creates a
lot of dissatisfaction among the tug crews. The Poles have a 16-man crew
on a Dutch-type tug, an 11-man crew on a small Dutch-type tugs, and eight-man
crews on diese4-motor tugs.
The following pay scale exists
in the Polish inland waterway fleet.
Winter
Apprentice
550
Able-bodied sailor
580
Deck supervisor
660
Steersman.
760
Mechanic
860
Captain
860
Summer
Apprentice
Able-'bodied sailor
Deck supervisor
Steersman
Mechanic
Captain
Comment: It is believed
Kanal Mass.
meant Pinow
branch office uses the following tugs in its operations 'between
zloty pert month
zloty per month
zloty per month
zloty per month
zloty per month
zloty per month
550 zloty per month
900 zloty per month
1,000 zloty per month
1,100 zloty per month
1,200 zloty per month
19300 zloty per month
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