SOVIET DESTROYERS AND MINE SWEEPERS IN ROSTOCK HARBOR

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R005800020002-3
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: July 26, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT
CD NO.
COUNTRY
Germany (Russian Zone)
DATE DISTR.
26 July 195O
SUBJECT
Soviet Destroyers an
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Sweepers in Rostock I
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1. After completing her trial runs which had begun on 13 December 194.9,
Soviet destroyer Pr vc~rn~v sft: Rug uc.k harbor fc- >;r3 unidentified
destinat1on. (.n 13 January 1950,
2 , Odor '. on the former German destroyers Z4 and z8 was pushed ahead. On the
Zu steam trials were carried outs, resulting in major damage in a
boiler room caused by Soviet personnel who (wore stationed in the
Neptun yard for instruction aboard th vessels under repair or con-
structions **
Tla jor damage was caused in a boiler room of the destroyer Z3 during
the steam trials which took place shortly before Christmas I Q49 as
a result of negligence or incompetence on the part of the Soviet
personnel, s The boiler was for a time run without grater and, in
addition, the condenser had boon nut under pressure. The condenser
has become unserviceable and a condensate cell rents The completion
of the destroyer bras delayed for some weeks.
4.. The Soviet naval personnel detailed for instruction aboard work with
greater zeal than before and the dockyard workers have also been
called on to v:?ork 12 hogs instead of 3 hours as before that event.
t
ro on the third destroyer. which arrived last has not beer started
Besides the destroyers, 7 former German mine sweepers of the IT-4C)
type lie in the leptun yard,,
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In contrast Pith t_e destroyer cre Js y the :ovi t crn':"s of .hose
nine sweepers live on the boats.
German shipy?i.rd workers have n,:t yet ::or ed oY~ bor:zts.*~~*.
nhe destroyer Provo= is the former Gerry-,,n destroyer- of 25X1 C
the l~ r Class.
The designations Z4 and 2O of the tv!o other d estroycrs under
repair are only designations .given by the shipy rd rather than
destroyer numbers of the Soviet Navy. The statement that the vessels
are former German destroyers is erroneous. According to the reports
received up to nou on these two destroyers, they are units of the
modern Soviet 0 Class, i.e. Otv (Z4) and S rnnSr W). Des-
troyer Qjypahn, was laid down only ri,tIrin the war and not corn-
mi.ssioned until 1947 or 1943. The modern vessels of the 0 Class
differ somewhat fro:: the older units of this class in armament
and length (e.g. Destroyer forozhevoi). The following peacetime
complements are established for the older destroyers of the 0 Class:
a.
1 0'. e . :
Off4
15
b.
Petty officers :
45
c.
Other ratings :
147
d.
Total :
207
*** As to the reported seven mine sweepers it has not been clearly
established whether they belong to the 111-40 or the 111-43 Class. It
is inferred from another rerort that the a rrnar:=or.t and the sneering 25X1C
gears and lines on all the boats have been roy owed. One boat
Is still fitted with the former CGerman dipole antenna of the German
radar receiver. The ultrahigh-frequency e, litters are still on all
the boats. lost of the boats have been stationed in i':ostock since
1946 and patrol the Gedser Strait from thou port,
were sighted off Lepaya on 6 September 1949.
0 2 photo~-;raphs.
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