BLACK SEA OIL TANKER FLEET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00039R000100020020-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2012
• Sequence Number: 20
• Content Type: REPORT

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BLA~K?-~EA QiL 'A ~' FLEE ,,,T.
I. Thc - total U Bf oil tanker fleet amounts to about 35U,C)OO tons.
The Mack Sea. ea. fleet represents only 32 percent o.~ this total, ~1~er$
65 percent of t~,e oii tr~kors operate in the Caepiau Sea.
Honever, the Black S?a fleet, tot~uther with sons White lea
e handles 93 percent of the long distanoe trana"-
and Fos East writ,
ports of oobustible Liquids.
IL. The 918ok lea oil tanker fleet consieta of 20 G5 unite N1th
a total gross tonnage l5,OOOJ'= 120,ub(t toMS and a capaity of
15 5, 000 - 160, 0U0 bona (for somi-crude products).
Over halt a.f these vessels are of relatively new con.^truction,
register
with ?roes tonnage of 6,000/tons or ( at the 1 +rger t ;ape) , OOO
,
t.', Li~?
R1ey
were constructed in 1930 - 32 and re equipped with
Diesel enCinee. a1 mt all are of Russian construction (Nikolayev
shipyards)r
The rematning units ?ire older, some of pre.irevcluticslsry
register
oontruc;tiOfl. Their groes tonnage varies from 600 to 4,940/tons,
most of theca have diesel enginea rand a capacity of from 950 to
7,000 tons,
3
aeQificti.oras of certain oil tanker6
a)Ayerba dZhanl9 s launched in 1932 at the A. Marti shipyard in
y' ,
grin grin fe ' st et
Nikolayev, a Diesel engines, a sorews, gross tonrag?e 6,11 tons,
, capacity 9,800 tons of maeut.
Length ~`r( drgught 8.7 m, epeed 12 knote.
125 ill, width a.tin ~! -.---
%' MV_aLr 1 t n~ : atg~had in 1932 at the A. Marti shipyards, twin
,~.~ Styr
Aiesei eng we! gross tor..aage ?,66L/tan8, capacity
twin acre
QIY .~~... dC w *%+
r,..,..ep4-d i
~Me~s
Length 136 m, width 1? .1 ~, draught 7.9s, speed U knota.
a1in: flagehin (?) of the B1sak Sea oil tankers,
o) losif St
constructed in t..he . a. Mori shtp ?a d e?,~..1~~ dth~ r~w!-1rL~i~ ~. tl ~.932~ twin Diesel
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engine., twin eare~rt, gross tonnage 7,e /tone, capacity
10,900 tons.
i.ergth 136 z, width 17.1 a, draught 7.9 m, speed 11 knota.
III. The P1acc >e oil tankers; fire ccrnbincd 1rn the "Sc'vtanker'' rorr
pang'. The cc 'any t:; ,.,nc~er the rn rtn ;er,F;rt of Ivan
~i(~org1yeiri cb
Siri.ah, who i~ rrpoeed to tt;e rogimc bt~t is rct,~i rid for 'its
cat~abil.itIes. ThP. r in of the &1 tirtker" tTL., pfe.
Due to the offort cf Siri5h, the ~i .ck Sep f1? t dc
a15o
not only timndie cii transVu,rV in this ~aa but urertakes tors,
distance o'r tt.ot, . Ttu, the "Ii f Stalin" +u df:rto., : a
whaling trip try t c 1'lx tarctic in 1945 and the tt rere1l "
a non-stop tr? f) from '~`uap~se tc tho
1947.
l''::r
EaLst W'JwL rdu to F nct oL'
minor and major i~. ~`
lye Rep firs ( ~ n -~ 4- seeet ,) era the weak poii t i?. u~
of tanker fleet. The m,wittms thipyardc hive not pet been able
to recover their pre-war production level.
It ha.:i been attempted to bridge the in,degiuac, of the
shipyards by icaking repairs idth rieana avai1ab14 aboard ship.
~j,, ~ 1 1 ? ~ thi mA. h~U only
tJ
But
..~* ,IA L A x, nri
L IG Yri; uv?.w u~aa
V. AGec d J$g t prnt
SS
incre sed the n8ed for
1nt~Frra,io~1; there exists nc
Baltic Sea oil trAker fl~.et, here tray be certain vessels
egtfpped for transportat1On of cambuatable liquids but they
are of .ninor i~.~portaroe. The oil tamers c. the B1~ick Sea rai
of the iril uid are the ones which actually sups l1y the
ii31tic ?1eet.
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major repairs.