SHIPYARDS AT GALATI, GIURGIU, TURNU, SEVERIN, ORSOVA, BUDAPEST, BRAILA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000100460009-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 14, 2013
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 26, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Rumania
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Shipyards at Galati, Giurgiu, Turnu
Severin, Orsova, Budapest, Braila
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The Sovromtransport shipyards at Galati are located in the net*
basin or Bada.lan sector, about two and one-half or three km
east of the Sovrom Administration headquarters.
he yard had two graving docks-9
an two building ways next to the basin- there
may have been others in other parts of the yard. one or
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two floating drydocks in the basin; these could not handle ships" 50X1
over 1000 tons, There were warehouses in the yard also.
2. From December 1950 to March 195l, many naval and commercial 50X1
vessels undergoing repair in the Sovromtransport shipyards at
Galati. There were two Rumanian destroyers, the Narasti and
Marasesti; two fast motor gunboats; a Soviet destroyer, trice
the size of the Narasti, named for a Soviet city which I do not
remember; two Soviet motor gunboats, larger than the Rumanian
ones; and a t ousand ton Soviet ship which had capsized. All
of these vessels were from the Black Sea. In addition, there
were three or four Rumanian Danube tugs for towing barges,
twenty barges, and six Rumanian border guard (naval) motor
boats which were used after the war to clear mines from the
Danube. General repairs consisted of changes on the deck
(superstructure) of ships. No equipment was added to ships;
antennas might have been changed, but no new radios were added.
3. The entire structure was to be changed on the Soviet submarine
Delfinul, No 80, "MAN", which was old and. had been damaged
during the ware 4ork had not yet begun because 50X1
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NO. OF ENCLS.
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Giurgiu and Turnu Severin shipyards are about the 50X1
same size as the one at Galati. Vessels over 1000 tons cannot go
beyond Galati, so that the yards up river are engaged in construction
and repair of river vessels only. Minor repairs are made on river
vessels at Orsova, which employs about 300 workmen.
7. Ocean-going vessels are being built at Budapest for Rumania and.
Hungary, but this includes only freighters of 800 tons. Braila
remain submerged for 24 hours after it is repaired.
from England, had come, the disassembly was to be
speeded'up so that the submarine would be ready for the new parts
when they arrived, and that, the job would be completed in the
Autumn of 1952, the submarine would. be able to
neither the submerging chambers nor complete new engines, on order
si;ruction of a barge took one month
with metal hulls and wooden interiors.
vessels had engines of English manufacture, ie, [)iesel engines of
600 or 800 HP from the firm of Winddop. New construction at Galati
consisted of river tugs and barges; ocean-going vessels were not
constructed, only repaired. the shipyard completed
one tug a month. The tugs were about 25_m long, four or five m wide,
Sovrom ordered machinery from England for their tugs, and all new
the con-
e capacizy
of the barges was 80 freight cars. The barges were generally made
of metal; the hulls were either welded or riveted.
the metal was imported from the Soviet Union, but
manufactured in Rumania.
Tile shipyard had some three or four thousand employees, working three
eight-hour shifts, seven days a week. the workers in
Galati Were the best in all the Danube shipyards. There was a.four-
year training school at the yard. Apprentices worked a regular eight-
hour day and attended classes for three or four hours every night
except Sunday; attendance at classes was compulsory. After four years
the apprentices were given the rating of master and were qualified
for supervisory positions.
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no new construction in the Braila shipyard.
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contact mines.
The ones near the shore at Constanta are
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magnetic. the ones at sea,
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