ACTIVITIES OF SMALL SHIPYARDS IN MECKLENBURG

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 14, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTEL.LIG' CE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT
Germany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Activities of Small Shipyards
in Mecklenburg r c eumr rt ir., .,
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ACQUIRED
DATE OF U
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AS DEEMED NECESSARY BY THE RECEIVING AGENCY.
14 October 1948
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`THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION FOR THE RESEARCH
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The Peenewerft. Wolgast
1. Work began during August 1948 on the construction of a small shipyard on
the Peens River, near Wolgast (P-92). The buildings of a.cellul a plant,
which was constructed during the war, are being put to u.se' On& large
shed is being reconditioned by 350 workers, and a slipway is being con-
structed to lead from the shed to the river. One million bricks have been
delivered from Peenem{nde for use in the bgilding of the yard. Power for
the yard will be generated by a newl,-erected adjacent power station housing
two 3,500 KW turbines. One Ing. Schoning has been charged with the equip-
ping of the plant. It is estimated that the construction work will cost
approximately six million RM.
2. It has been officially stated that the Peenewerft will be used for the
fitting out of deep-sea fishing vessels of up to 75 tons burden. Accord-
ing to building plans, however, the yard will be capable of handling craft
displacing up to 250 tons. The Peens installation will be a so-called Volks-
werft, like the yard in 1)amgarten, the Tha]mannwerft in Brandenburg, and the
Volkswerft,iniNagfibbuyg The latter three yards will manufacture hulls for
the Peenewerft, which will in turn fit the completed hulls with Diesel en-
gines and launch the vessels. Seventy percent of the craft will be delivered
to the Russian authorities. Director of the Peenewerftwill be one Dipl. Ing.
Lamprecht of Rostock.
Rechlin Shimvard
Taucherfirma Bellmann and the Nordische Baugesellschaft Stralsund have been
ordered by the SAM, through the Mecklenburg state government, to build a small
shipyard in Rechlin, on the Mfritz See. Construction work, which will be con-
ducted on a five million RM budget, was to begin in mid-August 1948. The yard
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will have five slipways and an assembly shop measuring 120 m. x 40 in, Seventy
percent of the vessels built at Rechlin will go on the reparations account, 25
percent will be delivered to state-owned enterprises, and 5 percent will be
available to private firms.
The Rhodewerft. Rostso
As of mid-August 1948, the Rhodewerft was launching one fishing cutter,every
week. Upon completion, the cutters are taken over by Soviet crews and moved
to the Kr8gerwerft at Warnem1nde, where they receive two coats of paint and
their identification numbers. They are then sailed, without proper sea trials,
for an eastern Baltic port.
In the near future the entire Rhodewerft will be moved further upstream to
facilitate communications. In August 1948 there was already a wooden shed
on the prospective site in which one minesweeper was under construction.
This minesweeper, the exact'replica of a German R-boat, should be ready for
trials imt@ cinb@'tde$.1948.
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6. A shipyard was opened in Quentzin,.on the Plauersee_, on 1 August 1948... The
yard has four slipways and a brick assembly shop measuring 60 in. x 25 in. Two
hundred workers are employed in the yard. Work has begun on the construction,
in steel, of a 250-ton vessel.
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