NEPTUN SHIPYARD IN ROSTOCK

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• Publication Date: September 27, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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W CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE, AGENCY REPORT NO. 0
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Gonnany (Russian Zone
SUBJECT Neptun .`Shipyard in 2ostock RETURN T9 Chi It
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
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DATE DISTR. 27 Sept. 1950
NO. OF PAGES 4
NO. OF ENCLS. 2 Annexes
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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1. In late December 1919 the total labor force of :17e :3eptun Shipyard was
6,470. There is an acute shortage of skilled t ii rri hts. The work force:
strength and personnel of the shipyard yore listed as va the equip-
ment in the shipbuilding shed of department 107, (1)
2,. The herring drifters built at t c\shipyard on reparations account for the
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scantlings 65 x 100 x 7 - 10 rm., or the dimensions are cut to shape from
(continuous bulkhead); main-deck plating mm, doublings on main deck 15 mm..
The material van be used only after release by the Sovi t supervising comnit-
teem- The Germanische Lloyd shipping company has no influence in th-i.s matter.
The material for plating is almost exclusively "steel-Ii.", most of it coming
from the :. estern Zone. r"aterial for frames is taken from available stocks,
goviets are all-steel ships requirin about Y0,000 man-hour, for the ship-
building part. Specifications of these craft axes. gross tonnapo: 320-3S0 GPRT;
length: 32 meters; molded depth: 6a3 meters; beam across camber: 7.,2 meters;
camber: 125 mm; change of frames: at frames 35/36; standard frame spacing:
365 mm; deck sheer from middle of ship's length to forward and after end
of ship: about 11 meters..
The drifters are powered by .-Yolff-Buckau or Imperial Diesel engines. The
engine power is allegedly 360 HP. They are equipped with a large and small
generating set and an echo depth sounder. There are oiitight bulkheads at
frames 19 and 20, and frames 23 and 21; watertight bulkheads at #rrirnes 20
- 142 - 56 - 71; chain locker between frames 71 and 73; colli '!: icMz bulkhead
at frame 73; continuous main deck from frame 7 to stem; engine room from
frame 7 to frame 19 or 20; main deck house from frame 7 to frame 20; wheel
krouse atop from frame 1.5 to frame 21; poop-deck house from frame 0 to frame 7
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5. All skin seams for the drifters are lap-riveted longitudinally but all
transverse seams are welded. All deck seams are electrically welded.
In the craft ordered for 1950, the deck is welded in comriete sections.
The stern from frame 7 to the sternpost, and the fore peak from. framb
73, including the chain locker, are also built in sections and put on in
the slip, The oil bunker is subdivided by a center-line bulkhead,
8 mm thick, and 2 shifting boards 2,100 mm high are fitted to the leer
edge of the main deck. The material of the bar keel is 15 mm thick and
250 ma wide. Stem part I (lower part) material 20 mm, part II (upper
part) material 15 mm thick. The Stern scarf scantling is 12 mm. The
cask hold is between the frames 29 and 142, hatch in the center line; from
frame 142 to.56 is the fish hold with one hatch on each side, Fart and
starboard. These holds are stiffened by welding together tubular pillars
and channel irons leading from the middle deck to the lower edge of the
deck beam and welded to the latter.
6. The frames and decks are made in the shipyard itself but the other con-
structional parts are manufactured by other firms, such as E12i-Litterfeld,
as?-embly of deck houses and other bly work Dietrich Firm, Calbe on the
Saale River, bulkhead walls, Schvweriner Industrieworke,individual con-
st.Quetion of deck houses. the electrical installations are furnished by
the 'lt1t' in Rostock and the marine accessories by the VEIN' in ilostock both
nationalized plants.
7.. The production quota for 1950 was 80 drifters. By 31 December 1949 the
production was eight drifters, of 'which construction numbers 653 to 660
were finished. To increase the production it is planned to erect some new
machines, among others a 12-meter roller shears, and to recondition build-
ing slip 3. The former motor vehicle shed will be converted to a tracing
shop and the shipbuilding shed lengthened by about 60 meters.. The former
nnokestack building has been newly concreted and is used for a section
building in connection with the drifter-building program. Two new cranes,
each capable of lifting three tons, have already been erected and need the
motors. The construction of the slip cranes for building slip 3 has been
started. The management and administration moved to the former Commercial
School opposite the shipyard, the shipbuilding department to the former
Soviet quarters in the upper story of the motor vehicle shed.
8. Aside from the production quota of 80 drifters it is intended to equip
the yard with machines and subject it to such constructional alterations
as to enable the yard to start the construction of 15 steam trawlers with
an aggregate tonnage of 5,000 GRT. This may be done in 1950.
9. The machine and tool equipment of the yard are entirely inadequate and
hardly meet the requirements of a plant employing 900 to 1,000 workmen.
Part of the machinesin the building shed are out of date,,betn built in
.19014; part of them were made in the Soviet Zone (steel manufacture) and
are not capable of using the power produced in this plant.
10. Due to the lack of expert personnel, especially shipwrights, the emrtloy-
nent of skilled workers at all times is indispons4ble. Viork hours of from
12 to 114 hours per day are no exceptions for skilled workers. , To date the
earnings corresponded to the average margin of the years of 19140 to 191414..
However,, as a result of new standards, fixed on the basis of technical.
considerations, they will be uncertain after 1 January 1950, (2)
11. ::'ark on the two destroyers Z-8 and Z-14 is being accelerated. The Z-8
has been undergoing steam trials since 4^0 parch 1950 and is schedu ed to
make a trial run about 1 April 1950. This trial run was once rostponed
since the destroyer had to be accepted first by a so-called "General
Cor.?i.ssion" in order to avoid the occurrence of the same. defects as ex-
perienced with the destroyer Provorny reviously delivered. (3) It is
believed that the destroyer 7.71 wi to ready in April unless unforeseen
technical difficulties are encountered. Steam trials have not yet been
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made by the destroyer z 4. Work on a scheduled third destroyer has not
been started.
12. An engineer of the yard told some workmenmho had worked on the Provorny
that she had another boiler breakdown at sea after she was delivered.
13. A special vessel is also being built in the yard. The great number of
antennas is a characteristic feature of this vessel, the Smolny. The
shipyard workers call the :'viol a training ship. The upper deck of the
ship is being covered. (4)
14. The Neptun-Shipyard still builds lifting cylinders for salvaging the large
tr'recks which lie off the coast. The cylinders and salvaging operations
will be aid for by the Salvage Bureau of the Government of Land Mecklen-
burg, (!i) Lifting cylinders with capacities of 50 and 200 tons are built.
They are fitted with valves for flooding and draining, and also with
facilities for fastening the lift hawsers.
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(1) For list of personnel and department strength see Annex 1. Except for
Engineers Schlaack, Herzig and Gehrmann none of the shipbuilding engineers
hold an engineer's certificate; they are only operating engineers. Except
for master mechanic Jcinning none of the master shipwrights passed a
master's examination. The entire plant with a total work force of nearly
6,L20 people on 8 January 1950 eml?loys a total of 23 shipwrights in the
shipbuilding section, They passed a journeyman's examination after an
apprenticeship of three years. Seven of them are employed as foremen.
For machinery and its condition in Department 107, see Annex 2.
(2) The report confirms known information on the drifters., and. supplements
them by technical details. It shows that the drifters are not bui 1t section-
wise and cannot be termed welded ships. The building method on the whole
corresponds to the usual procedure, except for those modifications which
are the natural result of modern views and practical experiences made in
dealing with such, a big building order, delivery of deck houses, bulkhead
walls, etc., partial assembly of individual ship sections,etc. Under these
circumstances it is doubted nhethor the production quota of 60 drif ters will
be filled since the production method was not sufficiently rr:tionalixed.
Other factors which have a delaying effect are the scarcity of skilled
labor, as stressed in the report, and the inadequate mechanical equipment
of the shipyard for shipbuilding.
Most of the required material is
delivered by West German firms. Thus, material for the Soviet armament
is being supplied from the west, for the production of such a lot of
drifters cal only be explained by an acute requirement for au7iliary vessels,,
especially since most of the important fishing districts are to-day already
being exhausted although drifter-building is only in its initial stage.
25X1 (3) fie tv destroyers Z 4 and Z $ were previously submitted. See
(4) from the reports received to date it is inferred that the Smolny is not the
submarine tender of the same name. She is allegedly a foram viet mine
layer which isto be converted to a training ship in the Neptun Shipyard.
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L-i Comment, The salvage firm Johannes Spiess in llamburg (Hapag) con-
verted some sections of submarine pressure hulls to lifting cylinders on
the Rhine and was quite successful in sA9 vage operations done with these
cylinders. Since the Spiess Firm could not use these cylinders clue to
controversies with the British Disposals Group, they were offered for sale
to the Seeagentur (Maritime Agency) in Berlin in May 1949. About two
months later the Soviets refused the offer and returned the drawings. The
lot consisted of 10 cylinders with a lifting capacity of 200 tons each and
20 cylinders of 50 tons lifting capacity. The soviets were not int,rested
in the latter from the very beginning. About October 1949, the Polish
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'"ission In Hamburg shared an unexpected interest in these lifting cylinders.
*'artinecz, (fnu), of the rolish "iesion said that the Polish Gdynia-America
Line was interested. After about eight weeks however, the Poles also
declined the offer. Lifting cylinders of this type were used for raising
the SS Hamburg off Sassnitz, but floating docks of the laeptun--Shipyard
had to wed for raising the '`S Hansa which proved very difficult.
2 Annexes* 1. Leading Personnel and Section strength of the Neptun
Shipyard, Restock.
2. Machinery of the Shipbuilding Shed, Department 107 of the
Neptun Shipyard, Rostock.
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