NAVAL CONSTRUCTION ENTERPRISE OF RIJEKA

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: December 15, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Naval Construction Enterprise of Rijeka
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a. Steam-driven floating dry dock DIVNA equipped with hoisting equipment
with a capacity of 60 tons;
b. Steam-driven floating dry dock DUBA, which was built in Split, and
which is equipped with hoisting equipment up to 15 tons capacity;
c. Floating dry dock DRAGONA with hoisting equipment up to 15 tons capacity;
d. Floating dry dock, unidentified, with hoisting equipment up to 15 tons
capacity;
Thee old trucks employed to transport material;
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1. The Naval Construction Enterprise of Rijeka is a branch of the slain Directorate
for Construction Enterprises which has headquarters in Split. Other branches
are located at Sibenik, Kardeljevo and Bar. The Rijeka branch of the Naval
Construction Enterprises is in charge of the construction and repairs to ports
of the North Adriatic Sector which stretches from Koper to the south of Senj.
2l, The offices of the Enterprise at Rijeka are located on the sixth floor of a
skyscraper facing the square formerly known as the Regina Elena Square. The
director is Josip Krararic who is a pro Tito Communist, Engineer Antun Sirca
is in charge of plans. He is approximately 45 years of age. Engineers in a
supervisory capacity over the work performed in the various shipyards of the
Rijeka branch are Engineer Plasibat and Engineer Cimicic. Plasibat, who is
45 years of age, was a contractor during the Royal Yugoslav Regime. He is
considered to be skillful and practical, but is regarded by the Communists as
being a person of bourgeois sentiments. The headquarters employs approximately
20 clerks, from 250 to 300 workers and 23 divers. The workers and divers are
assigned to the various shipyards as the need wises.
3. The various vessels and equipment owned by the Naval Construction Enterprise
at Rijka are forwarded as the need arises to the various areas which are under
the jurisdiction of the other branches. The vessels are listed as follows:
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ho Four floating docks furnished with winch and crane. Among theses
the CREVICA is currently undergoing repairs at the Viktor Lenac
shipyard, The BTJKEI is a simple dry dock equipped with a United
States winch and crane, similar to the highway model on tract.
The remaining two docks were constructed in the Third of May
shipyard at Rijeka;
Motorboats SLOBODA and ,MICE 3, based at Susak;
fo Towboats TALAS and TREAT based at Rijeka;-
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delivered to Yugoslavia in 1950; and
Diving equipment which is quite obsolete and poorly suited to the
duties performed. The rubber diving suits In particular are in such
a state that divers emerge from..the.water drenched. The vessel
ZAGREB now at the petroleum port at Ri eke w recently said to have
uploaded two Pirelli diving outfits
4o Mork projects handled by. the Rijeka E terprise are currently being carried
out in the port of Baros at Susak, the Sveti Marko pier and the Wine Depot
quay in the main port of Rijeka, the petroleum port in Rijeka, Vsimauin hi
in Labin, Izola, Baker and Senj. The various work projects are described
as follows:
P ort_Baloe at Susak:
Repairs are being made to the pier located outside the city, and formerly
known as the King Aleksandar Pier, It will be enlarged by nine meters so
that an additional set of railroad tracks can be laid, Engineer Ciinicic
is in charge of the work for which fifty workers and nine divers are
employed. Equipment being used consists of two dredge boats with cranes
and three floating dry docks, among which the DIVt1A, the DDBA and a third
unidentified dry. dock. The legend to the attached sketch I'^Is as follows:
.) Existing'pier, partially damaged in section indicated under D.
This damaged section covers an area of approximately thirty meters;
(R.) Formerly a reef, which has now been leveled. with solid concrete
blocks;
(T)`Hollow concrete blocks forming a "carpets which is 50 centimeters
thick, The concrete floor or carpet is located at a-depth of four
meters;
( )Section of pier w!-ich has not been repaired; and
(0) Sma3l reconstructed piers,.
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Repairs are being -nade to the pier and to the adjacent quay, Engineer
Plasibat is in charge of the work for which ten workers and two divers
are employed. The equipment used consists of one cement machine and
two dredge boats with orand,
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This area covers a group of projects for which 16,0009000 dinars were
to have been appropriated. The work however, has been halted for lack
of funds. To date only the rocks under the water have been re ed,
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d. Petroleum Pont s
Only one diver is currently employed on this project. His job is to
place markers indicating the presence of rocks on the sea bed. The
dredge boat EIOROVO, however, is expected soon, .and it will clear the
entry into the port. This entry is at present only 15 meters wide,
toward the center of the entry, because of various underwater obstacles
such as rocks, at cetera. Two wooden cases (b on attached sketch II)
mark the entry into the port. Vessels. entering to unload petroleum or
for purposes of supplq.,enter badkwards and follow the route indicated
on the attached sketch, allowing a safe distance of six motors from
the port. Outside of the Petroleum Port, (indicated sketch II as A),
a landing on an'embanlm-ent of wooden piles has been constructed. It
is fifty meters long and eight meters wide. A small hand-operated
crane is located at the very edge of this landing. The legend to the
attached sketch II is as followss
(.) Wooden landing or quay;
(P- Cases marking entry to the port;
(;c) Damaged section of pier.
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A pier thirty meters long has been constructed which is used by the
cement factory located in the vicinity. Engineer Tom 1.1ausic is in
charge of the work-for which seven or eight workers and one diver are
employed,
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Repairs to the pier are currently in progress.
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Repairs to the pier are currently in progress.
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A new quay is currently being constructed opposite the old one. It
will be 130 meters bng. Sea depth at that point, will be 13 meters.
Another establishment in Bakar is entrusted with the construction of
cement blocks to be used for this quay.' A certain Engineer Vehner is
in charge of the construction of blocks, and has forty workers working
for him.
Repairs to the pier are currently in progress. The, chief engineer is
Tons Muric, and 15 workers are employed to do the 'wort ;.'
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