1. GDANSK SHIPYARDS 2. MARITIME ENGINE AND MACHINERY FACTORY ELBLAG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012500130004-9
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 16, 2009
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 19, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICl
CjINTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT 1. Gdansk Shipyards
2. Maritime Engine and Machinery Factory, Elblag
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
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Some of the Polish shipyards, particularly the Gdansk Shipyard (Stocznia
Gdanska) and the Gdynia Shipyard (Stocznia Gdynska), are equipped for building
naval vessels, as well as merchant vessels; the Gdansk Shipyard can produce
naval vessels up to about 4,000 to 5,000 BRT,.(1) as. well as submarines.
However, because of Soviet prohibition,, and because of Poiandra lack of
production of maritime machinery and engines, the Polish shipyards have
built no ships for the Polish Navy, except for a few -trawlers.
2. The production of the Polish shipbuilding industry has greatly suffered by
the lack of ship machinery and engines; About ten ships of various kinds,
built at Gdansk, and about 20 large trawlers, all waiting to be fitted out
with engines and machinery, are anchored in the shipyard canal at Gdansk.
These vessels, which represent the total 1951 production, as well as. that
of the last quarter of 1950, have only their hulls and such fittings as could
be installed prior to the installation of engines and machinery. At present,
the Polish shi-ovard industry expects to obtain machinery from Germany
3. Two halls, 150 m. long, 6 m. wide . and about 25 m. high,have been in the
process of construction in the Gdansk shipyard No. 2 since January 1950.
One of them is to be a sheet iron works. In each hall there are two elec-
trical cranes on rails. The halls are now being completed and production
will be started this year. Four to five hundred locksmiths are employed
in the construction. The-construction plans and documentation originated
in Hungary, and Hungarian enginefr.s are supervising the work.
1. The west side of Holm, Island has been taken over by the Gdansk Shipyard
while the two harbor basins, Ostrowica I and Ostrowica II, are used by
the lighthouse and road commission.
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5. A factory which is designated officially as the Maritime Engine and Machinery
Factory is located in Elblag (Elbing). Actually, this is a Polish state
firm which either produces or receives from the Soviet Union ready-made plaques
bearing inscriptions in Russian; these plaques are placed on machinery and
tools imported from Western Europe, in place of the original plaques put on
by the western manufacturers. Machinery and tools on which the plaques have
been exchanged are then shipped to Gdansk or Gdynia on board Soviet ships,
under the guise of Soviet exports to Poland.
6. Because Polish shipyards are occupied with ship construction for the Soviet 25X1
Union (this Soviet shipbuilding program was not included in the Polish
shipbuilding plan), the shipyards are-not able to handle ship repairs. Most
of the major ship repairs are performed in Western European shipyards;
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accounts for about 40% of all repairs (both major and general repairs)
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handles about 30, while the remainder of repairs are made -principally 25X1
handling at present only a small portion.
7. Captains of Polish merchant ships have secret instructions which require
them to purchase abroad equipment for their ships, principally machinery,
engines and hoists, to form a two year supply of spare parts. Captai,hs are
required, in addition, to buy as much bronze., copper, brass,, wolfram and
other nonferrous metals as possible. For these purchases, the captains
are authorized to spend any amount in any currency necessary to obtain the
material.
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Comment:
lno on ships under 3,000 BRT in the future.
the Gdansk Shipyard will build 25X1
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