GDANSK SHIPYARD IN GDANSK

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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 6, 1959
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
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SUBJECT Gdansk. Shipyard in Gdansk
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a report on the Gdansk Shipyard at Gdansk
(Danzig). The report contains information on shipbuilding at the yard as
well as general iamation on the manufacture and import of certain ship
camp=ante. A sketch showing installations at the yard accompanies the re-
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While shortages-of materials had existed. at the shipyard
` about 10,000 persons were employed at the shipyard.
In general, only one shift is worked, but the foundry, the carpenter shop,
and the precision oxy-acetylene welding shops work in two shifts. Three
shifts are worked only by the fire company, the shipyard guards, in the
boiler room, compressor room, and by the "technical preparedness".
the manager of the shipyard was Czeslaw Znajewski (formerly
a "brigadier" of electrotechnics).
The radar equipment installed in ships built at the shipyard is of
Soviet manufacture, with the exception of a few [ships] which received
other radar equipment in foreign yards.
All equipment such as radar, radio, and gyro compasses and regular
compasses for ships built at the yard for the USSR are of Soviet manufacture.
This equipment carries Soviet
Gyrocompasses
other hand, are made at the yard. Boilers are imported
storage.
Electric winches, anchor windlasses, manometer dials, and some smaller
auxiliary machinery are of Polish manufacture, coming from N-11 (Gdanskie
Zaklady Maszyn E lektrycznych, the Gdansk Electrical Equipment Works,
formerly Siemens). Steam winches and. [steam] anchor windlasses, on the
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Shipbuilding at the Yard
Supertrawlers of 660 tons deadweight
With the exception of supertrawlers, the yard stopped building vessels
under 5,000 tons already The supertrawlers being built are of
660 tons deadweight and have a speed of 12 knots. All of them were
ordered by the USSR. The steam engines for the Soviet supertrawlers are
made at the Skoda I ironworks, Stalowa Wola. The propellers are cast in
Elblag. (Other fishing vessels are being built at Nordwerft.)
Fisheries depot vessels of 9,300 tons deadweight
A fisheries depot vessel, type B 62, of 9,300 tons deadweight is
being fitted out.
in the ship. The vessel was ordered by the USSR. The refrigeration
equipment was supplied by Mostostal, Wroclaw.
A tanker of 18,000 tons deadweight
A tanker, the largest ship ever built in a Polish shipyard, is under
construction. The ship, being built for Poland, is of 18,000 tons dead-
weight, 12,600 gross register tons, type B 70.
Tramp freighters of 4,800 tons deadweight
A series of ships for the tramp trade, type B 31, of 4,800 tons
deadweight, 3,800 gross register tons, are being built at the yard. The
pace of construction is about one ship per mont1
were completed and delivered. to the USSR.
type were built for Brazil and two for Egypt.
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two ships of this
7 a total
of 58 ships of this series, which is to include 68 ships, had been built.
The ships are oil fired. Propellers and steam turbines for them are made
by Skoda I, Stalowa Wola. With the exception of two ships built for Poland,
three for China,
has gone to the USSR.
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Freighters of 10,800 tons deadweight
Of this series of freighters of about 10,000 [sic] tons deadweight,
7,200 gross register tons, type B 54, Poland has thus far received eight
ships. The ninth and tenth,
SR. The eleventh,
were being fitted o
ut,
still on the construction ways, is intended for Poland.
The radio navigation equipment for ships of this series which are
not going to the USSR
During the past five years, this shipyard has built only one naval
vessel. This was the survey vessel BALTYK, of 450 tons
Soviet radar equipment was installed.
The
hull of; this vessel is of the same design as those of the 450 ton fishing
vessels, the only difference being the cable troughs built into the bows,
which cable troughs do not appear on the construction drawings. Space
for storage of weapons is also found aboard this vessel.
A sketch of the shipyard, with explanation of symbols, accompanies
this report.
Explanation of Symbols for the Sketch
of the Gdansk Shipyard
1. The shipyard management
2. The fire company
3. Childrens' Nursery
4+. Communications Division (distribution of coal and work clothing) [sic]
5. Division for Worker Welfare and Hygiene
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6. Test shop for steam winches
7. Hospital
8. Office building under construction
9. Pass office for non-employees
10. Milk pasteurization plant for the shipyard personnel
11. Gate No. 2 and guard room
12. Atomic shelter
13. Turntable for locomotives and railroad cars
14. Office of the chief of the electrical shop
15. Main stores
16. Culture house, library, auditorium, etc.
17. Gate No. 1 and guard room
18. Acetylene production
19. School for welders
20. Tools and materials for the school
21. Hall for assembling hull sections
22. Construction ways for vessels of 10,000 tons. Six cranes of 50 tons
capacity each. Launching is always done stern first.
23. Dock for supertrawlers
24. Machine shop
25. Frame shop
26. Assembling of steam winches
.27. Foundry for steam winches, windlasses, bollards, etc.
28. Mess hall II
29. Plate shop and rope walk ?
30. Steam boiler shop
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31. Office of the technical control
32. Mechanical works, large machinery
33. Main mechanical works, and toolmaking ?
34. Hardening of tools and machine parts
35. Engine assembly .
36. Office of the vacation fund of the employees
37. Design office for assembling of ship engines
38. Fitting out quay for vessels of 5,000 to 10,000 tons, with four cranes
of 40 tons capacity each.
39. Fitting out quay for supertrawlers of 500 tons
40. Fire boat, two tugs, and the pilot's motorboat
41. The shipyard's wharf and port office
42. Sheet metal hall, where whole sections are made which are later put
together.
43. Paints and chemicals stores
43a.. Workshop of the port authority. Hawsers, etc.
44. Lumber storage
45. Repair shop for electric motors
46. Construction ways for 500 ton supertra.wlers. Two cranes, each of
50 tons capacity. Launchings are sideways.
47. Pontoon bridge which can be swung open.
48. Assembly of sections of 500 ton supertrawlers. "Tramp type".
49. Fitting out hall for 500 ton supertra.wlers
50. Material for fitting out supertrawlers
51. Compressor room
52. Workshops for finishing touches to new vessels prior to delivery
53. Hotel and mess hall for Soviet crews
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54. Workshops destroyed during the war.
55. Not shown on sketch
56. Payroll office; credit association
57. Quay for final fitting out of all vessels
58. Assembly hall for semifinished sections of hulls of 5,000 ton
tramp vessels.
59. Assembly hall for assembly of hull sections for 5,000 ton vessels
60. Polonia sports hall
61. Office of the "Friends of the Soldiers Society"
62. The Polonia training hall
63. Employment office and issuance of passes for yard personnel
64. Vocational training section
65. Garage and automobile repair shop
66. Main office of the industrial guard
67. Main ship design office
68. Gate No. 1 and guard
69. The Central Ocea.n[ogra.phicl Institute. Not directly connected with
the shipyard.
70. Truck garage
71. Residences of yard personnel
72. Mess hall
73. Construction ways for 5,000 ton vessels and for 18,000 ton tankers.
Six cranes, each of 50 tons capacity
74. Carpenter shop and engine section
75. Furniture stores
76. Drying of lumber
77. Anchor and anchor chain stores
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78.
Turntable for locomotives and cars
79.
Design office for the mechanical works
80.
Storage of ungalvanized pipe
81.
Fitting out quay for 5,000 ton and 10,000 ton vessels.
each of 30 ton capacity
Five cranes,
82.
Machinery hall, now moved to 24.
83.
Hydraulic work shop (pipe conduits)
84.
Galvanizing
85.
Repair shop for railroad rolling stock
86.
Turntable
87.
The shipyard's vocational school
88.
Stock records office, and office of yard suppliers
89.
Chemical laboratory for metal testing
90.
Freight office and storage of equipment and auxiliary machinery for
fitting out of ships.
100. Electrical workshop for shipbuilding
101. Boiler room
102. Workshop for electrical repairs
103. Stores and office of the ship chandler cooperative
104. Pipe shop
105. Acetylene shop under construction
106. Coal and coke storage
107. Building materials storage
108. Building maintenance section for the yard's buildings.
The construction ways under 73 in the sketch is too small in relation
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