NAVAL SCHOOLS AT USTKA AND OKSYWIE

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: November 12, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Poland
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SUBJECT Naval Schools- at Ustki. and Oksywie
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DATE DISTR. 12 Nov. 1953
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Naval Schools in Ustka
1. All Navy echools were under the command of the Commandant of the
Cadre, Headquarters Office, in Gdynia. The Commandant of the Cadre
(Komendant Kadry) was Commander DABROWSKI, who was frequently refer-
red to as Commander KUBA.
2. The Schools in Ustka 54-35, E 16-517 were divided ito the fol-
lowing main departments:
a. Recruit Training for Officer Candidates. All officer candi-
dates were obliged to complete the recruit training course
here, at the completion of which they were transferred to
the Naval Officers' Candidate School at Oksywie 54-33,
E 18-337 for their training.
b. Recruit Training for Enlisted Men
c. School for Sea Specialists
d. School for Non-Commissioned Officers of the Cadre (Podo-
ficerska Szkola Kadrowa). They were given combat training.
They were never referred to as Naval Infantry (Morska Fiechota)
but as members of the Guard Company (Kompania Wartownicza).
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3. Army Schools-attended by naval pereonnel were the Army Ordnance
School in Krakew, where -they recei#ed 'small iirMs training, and the
Army Qtafterms.ster* School ih Poznan, where naval officers received
a one-year quartermaster training course.
Ll The period of enlistment in the Polish Navy was three years. All
Of the' Navy recruits, whether volunteers or draftees, received
twb Months basic training as seamen (Marynarz) at the Recruit
Training Center in Uska. This basic training usually took place
during the fall of every year, or every other year, at which time,
twenty companies, with 120 to 140 men each, were stationed there.
5. At the end of the two-month basic training period a final examination
was given. Those who failed in the final examination were at once
transferred to the Guard Company (Kompania Wartownicza). Their
duties were to stand guard at offices, barracks, kitchens, etc.
5. The greater part of the recruits graduated as senior seamen (Star-
szy Marynarz). Those who graduated as senior seamen were trans-
ferred to the fleet where they received a three-months training
course aboard ship. After this training, the senior seamen met
again at Ustka where they formed companies of students at the Sea
Specialies1School. There were 15 companies when I was there.
7. Courses in the Sea SpecialisteSchool lasted from six to nine months.
Courses for electricians, steersmen, machinist mates, signalmen,
etc., were offered. Those who proved unfit during the courses, or
who failed the final examinations, were transferred to the Guard
Company. All others were promoted to either of the lower two
petty officer ranks (petty officer second class or petty officer
third class). Some became instructors in their particular special-
ties, while most were sent to various shore and fleet installations
for further service. Petty officers of these two ranks could later
be promoted to petty officer first class or to chief petty officer.
A man with a specialist rating could eventually be eligible for
Officers, Candidate School. About 10% of the naval officers were
recruited from sailors who had graduated as senior seamen and who
were found qualified for naval officers, training.
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courses was probably On the basis of past civilian training in
these specialties. There were about 70 men who took the electri-
cians, course.
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9. Lectures in the various courses started immediately. The first
two-month period was known as the Period for Proof of Ability. A
comprehensive examination was given at the end of this period and 50:00
those who failed (about 10%) were transferred to the Guard Company.
10. The following is a list of some
a. General theory of electrical technology
b. Theory of electrical technology aboard ship
c. Electric machines
d. Physics
e. Chemistry - battery acids, and the character of such metals as
zi:'00PPersc .r,4 '..iron
f. Mathematics - algebra and geometry
g. Polish language
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Diesel and gasoline engines
Naval regulatios
j. Radio techniques
k. Administrative work, including simple bookkeeping
Politiocal lectures
Military training, such as manual of arms and drill
Short cruises aboard ship for sea training
Fire-fighting - foam type extinguishers and water pumps
General course dealing with lines (rope), knots, etc.
First-aid
from 0000 to 1700 hours. About two nours eacn wee K were spent in
physical training.
12. At the end of the first two-month period, we went more extensively
into theory and practice. We worked on generators and storage
batteries. In the practice workshop, we learned how to dismantle
and reassemble electrical engines. On our training cruises aboard
ship, we put our specialties into practice. In my case, aboard
ship, I worked with all the electrical apparatus, including such
electrical measuring instruments as voltmeters, ammeters, and
instruments for locating electrical breakdowns. We also had prac-
tice'alerts.
13. In the Radio Technical Course we studied schematic diagrams of the
RSBF (the Soviet transmitter) and the A7A (the Soviet receiver-
transmitter) which was a transmitter that operated with the aid of
a microphone. We were given a superficial treatise on radio tubes
used in this apparatus but later, while in Kolobrzeg, the radio
tubes used in the Bukta transmitter were classified secret.
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14. I heard there was a Naval Officers School for reserve and regular
personnel located in Oksywie.7 54-33, E 18-357. Officer recruit
training was first taken at the Officer RecrUrt Training School
in Ustka. I do not know the length of the officer recruit training.
After their completion of recruit training in Ustka, candidates
were transferred to the Officers' School in Oksywie. At the Oksywie
Officers' School: there were usually three companies of regular
officer candidates who received a three-year land-sea training
course. On training cruises the ships were never out longer than
24 hours. The reserve officer candidates, (at that time usually
one company of these reserve officers) received a one-year land-
sea training course.
15. In Oksywie there was a Petty Officers' School for petty officers
who were regular members of the Polish Navy. The course lasted
eight months and was designed to improve their particular skills.
At that time there was one Company of Petty Officers. Petty
officers received their ratings according to their grades at the
end of the course. The highest rating achieved by a petty officer
was chief petty officer (Starszy Bosman). I do not know the lowest
rating received.
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16. Of the courses given at the Petty Officers' school in Oksywie,
remember the following:
a._ Course in secret mail and documents (Kure Prowadzenia Kan-
celarji Tainej)`
b. Course in unclassified mail and documents (Kurs Prowadzenia Kan-
.: celarji Ogolnej). The document courses were attended by both
petty officer and officer students.
c. Hydrographic service course for enlisted men and officers
(Szkola Hydrograficzna).
d, Telephone operators course (Kurs Telefoniczny), about a four-
months, course. There were one or two companies of students
attending this course. This school was also in charge of
maintenance and repair of Navy-operated telephone installations.
e. Radiomen's Course (Kurs Radio Telegrafistpw). Course lasted
about nine months-. There was one company of students.
f. Yeomen's course (Kurs Administracyjny).
g. Coastal artillery (Kurs Artylerji Nadbrzeznej).
h. Drivers' course (Kurs SzOferow).
1. Underwater"divers' course (Kurs NurkOw) - about a six-months
Course. Thera was one company of students.
17. A submarine school did not exist because of the 2ack of ready-
for-operation submarines. The torpedo test station in Oksywie was
still being reconstructed from War damage.
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