SHIPS OF THE YUGOSLAV RIVER FLEET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R014100030013-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 21, 2006
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: September 26, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

A e"84 !'o eIease 4 0W 18 CIA RDP82-004578014100030013-2
FORM 'NO 51-4AA
FEB 1952
CLASSIFICATION SECRET/CONTROL m U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
CD NO.
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Ships of the. Yugoslav River Fleet
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE
ACQUIREQ
BANAT - a 400
overhauled in
river because
DATE DISTR. 26 September 1952
NO. OF PAGES 6
25X1
NO. OF ENCLS. One sketch
(LISTED BELOW) (two pages)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
25X1
1, In the spring of 1947 a joint Yugoslav-Russian navigation company known as
JUSPAD was formed, under the agreement that Yugoslavia would furnish the
ships and crews, while Russia would furnish the necessary capital. While
the company existed, Russia supplied no money whatsoever and Yugoslavia
suffered great financial losses. When JUSPAD was dissolved'. all of the
ships, particularly the barges, were in extremely bad condition. In the
summer of 1949 the Yugoslav company JDRB, which had originally been the
Yugoslav section of JUSPAD, took over the whole fleet.
JDRB now owns the
BACKA - a 340
overhauled in
river because
be
25X1
following side-wheel towing ships-:
horsepower steamship, built in.1884,and completely
1949 in the Novi Sad shipyard. Used on the Sava
it is light and has a shallow,draft;
horsepower steamship, built in 1916, and completely
1949 in the Podrinjsko shipyard. Used on the Sava
it is light and has a shallow draft;
BOKA (formerly SII3ENIK) - a 100 horsepower steamship. Instead of
having two side-wheels, as the other ships listed in this paragraph,
it has one large wheel in the rear. Used on the Sava river because
it is light and has a shallow draft;
BOSNA - a 250 horsepower steamship, completely overhauled in 1950
in the Cukarica shipyard. Used on the Sava river because it is
light and has a shallow draft;
e. BRANICEVO (formerly KUMANOVO) m a 600 horsepower steamship, completely
overhauled in 1948 in the Novi Sad shipyard;
CLASSIFICATION SECRET/CONTROL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
 Approved For Release 2006/04/18 CIA-RDP82-00457R0141`00030013-2
25X1
SECRET/CONTROL m U, S, `OFF I C IALS ONLY
CRNA GORA - a 250 horsepower steamship, completely overhauled in
it
b
ecause
the Podranjsko shipyard in 1948 Used on the Sava river
is'li.ght and has a shallow draft;
DAIMACIJA a 700 horsepower steamship in fairly good condition;
he DOLE[JSKG (form:riy ST. GEORGE) ? a 350 horsepower steamship, over-
hauled at the Cukarica shipyard, but later sunk in the Sava river
at Zabrezje, 3b kilometers from Belgrade;
is HERCEGOVINA a 700 horsepower steamship in fairly good conditionq
je HRVATSKA m a 900 horsepower steamship which loses two atmospheres steam
pressure and needs ' overhauling, if formerly operated in the Iron
Gate sector but has recently been transferred to a' quieter sector;
ka ISTRA (formerly MUNCHEN) - an 800 horsepower oil burner It formerly
belonged to the DDSG company, was sunk, raised in 1948,.and repaired
at the Cukarica shipyard in Belgrade in 1950;
1KMMAKCALAN m a 1,200 horsepower steamship which operates in the Iron
Gate sector. This ship is in better condition than the similar ship
SRBIJA mentioned below;
ma KKRDUN (formerly VPJVCDA.BQJOVIC) m a-500 horsepower steamship, over-
hauled in 1950 in the Bezanija shipyard. Used on-the Sava river
because it is light and has a shallow draft;
no KCRUSKA. (formerly LJUBLJANA) - a,450 horsepower steamship, built in
1913, and completely' overhauled in the Cukarica shipyard,, This ship
is unusual because it has a device which dredges the channel in the
Sava and. Drava rivers as it moves through with a convoy. In,these
rivers the channel is often blocked by sand deposits;
. o Q KOSOVO (former JUG-BOODAN) built. in 1915 The superstructure- was
repaired at Pancevo;
P. MAC-I'A m a 315 horsepower steamship, built in 1893, and completely
overhauled in 1949 in the Novi Sad shipyard=s Useu on the Sava river
because it is light and has a shallow draft;
qa MAKEDONIJA (formerly DUBROVNIK) a 700 horsepower steamship now
capable of"only 450 to 500. horsepower. The boilers-lose lay atmospheres;
r d PC1