HOCHSEESCHIFFBAU WARNOW-WERFT, WARNEMUNDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010500400009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 17, 2011
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 12, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/05/17: CIA-RDP82-00457RO10500400009-6
CENTRAL I .rj ?_k..ICENC AGENCY REPORT
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'W, 15 DOCU3IEHT CONTAIH3 1HFOR[.ATIOII AFFECYIHO THE RATIOYR:f. DEFENSE
OF THE URITEO STATES. MTRtn 111: WEANING OF T1TLE 10, SECTIONS 709
",{ ATlOff OF ITS CORTERTS !O OR RECEIPT ES A41 UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
IS PROHUSITED BY LAR +RE RE1 RODUCTIOA OF THIS FORM 15 PROHISITED.
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J HIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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ab In spite of siren,.ous efforts on the part of the Dockyard Directorate
to get this vessel finished on time, it is row not expected to be completed.
This delay i6 largely caused by the
un;Dxpec e : an. flare of 3_ ts new y installed engines to function as anticipated
bo Th:. two main diesel engines were uncoupled from the mainshaft and,given
a trial run, which showed -the following - ieaknesses -- two cylinders on
tht' port engine did not work at all; the starboard motor developed a
major oil leak, and there was too much play on the engine bed rega3i.e ng
a :'resh setting (neue Millimeter Unterlager), The ten workmen from
the MAN factory at Augsberg are still in the dockyard and are supervising
tho repairs to the engines which have been dismantled again and taken
our; of the ship.
Al'.;hough the former German degaussing p rdle switchboard has been
over?hGul d with new .Luses, copper coils? isolators and distribr t,or?s and
fil;ted and replaced in the ship., fo preparations have been made for the
filling of a degaussing, fix cle It was observed that,, unlike the
switchboard fitted into the ASia", last year, the switchboard now in the
RU:S has leads for more lines of cahl as each switch box has '16 'irLre
leads fitted to it