HUNGARY - THE "MAGYAR HAJO ES DARUGYAR"SHIPYARD OF BUDAPEST
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December 22, 1964
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SUBJECT: HUNGARY - THE "MAGYAR HAJO ES DARUGYAR" SHIPYARD OF BUDAPEST.50X1-HUM
Miscellaneous Information.
The Shipyard is located on the left bank of the Danube, in the
Ujpest quarter; it borders, on the east) with the Vaci Ut road and/ on
the south;with the "GANZ" Mechanical Work:Shops, now merged with
the Shipyard. It is equipped with 5 slips for lateral launching;
each of which allows the construction of vessels up to- 3,000 tons;
they are serviced by 4 bridge cranes of 2 tons and by 1 crane,
traveling on tracks, ,of 20 tons i ftecently installed (the slips
for lateral launching are easy to install: all that is needed
is an inclined stretch of the coast which allows the installation
c.bs
of guides on which must run the supporting = of the vessels
to be launched).
Opposite the area occupied by the shipyard is People's Island
(NEPSZIGET); on its coast facing the shipyard/ at 4 small slips for
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lateral launching used, almost exclusively, for the construction
of floating cranes. Approximately 4,000 laborers and office
workers, of good professional capacity, are employed in the
establishment; the working hours are from 0700 hours to 1530 hours.
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The general director is the engineer Ivan KURUSCEV
speaks German, English
and Russian
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The secretary a the general director is the engineer Ferenc
REICHARDT
speaks German, English and Russian
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The chief of the Technical Office is Engineer Sandor KAMENY, -
speaks the English language -fli-)evitly -
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airamosartiby, Engineer Gyorgy MIKO is also subordinate to him.
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Since 1964 the director of "GANZ" Mechanical WorK=Shop5(which
are part of the shipyard) has been engineer Andrew HANUSZ
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Engineer HANUSZ is also director of the Technical Office 'which
checks the quality of all the Hungarian shipyards; this Office,
recently set up, is called "MEO". The chief [of this Office] has
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he must maintain contacts with foreigners, 50X1-HUM
buyers and suppliers, and must check the material entering and leaving
the shipyards. Engineer HANUSZ 50X1-HUM
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has begun his.work.izi checking that which can be checked
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The skelin:a metaldend the metal sections needed by the shipyardl
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for .tizmmL constructionts come from the following establishments:
a) Ozdi Kohaszati Uzemek, Ozd Lorinci HengerMu, BUDAPEST - supplies ,
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secateafts and structural sections.
b) Lenin Kohaszati Muvek, Miskolc, DIOSGYOR, supplies only structural
sections.
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1) Vessels built, under construction andbeing
new type type motor-ship, called "SZEKESFEHERVAR",
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on 8 February 1964, being c at the end of August 1964.
It will be delivered to the "DETERT" Shing Company of Budapest on
the occasion of the national holiday of 7 November.
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the merchant vessel 50X1 -HUM
hass the following characteristics:
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- eNotwiTcr length: 81.50 meters
,e-erptoclieutarS
- length between v;ilt",Z,ZIPatzt=a73: 75.40 meters
- height/ 4.90 meters
- river capacity: 1,000 tons
- it is equipped With 2 "LANG" motors of 800 horsepower each, with
revolutions reduced to 310, 2 propellers, 3. rudders.
- it is equipped with 4? electric cranes for loading; they were
built in the shipyard.
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- it is equipped with a*Tadge, double bottom ET:21 for ballast and,
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fresh water under the holds but not under the saittir==e2=1MawmitAxoe
(located at the stern).
Coristeuctioh io 464 cleck
- longitudinal .&tfatguaveorem*eetk.-ieirex4w44)ge and double-bottom.
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? alternatIti current for all services, used for the first time ilOT oh
vessels built by the shipyard.
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Twayorysi the preceding one, ordered by "DETERT".
It was under construction on the slip at the end of August 1964.
Capacity of 1,300 tons. According to the contract" it will have to
be delivered within 1964.
The motor ship 0 "KARIMUNDJAWA" of 1,200 nominal
tons; it is equipped with a "LANG" motor of 1,000 horsepower. It was
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96a-0:lei on 6 fSeptember 1963; it was launched on 19 November 1963;
engine trials were made on 7 March 1964; it was delivered
on 29 April 1964.
it was
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The motor ship "MENTAWAI", ., the preceding one;
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&EI-avtAfa on 1 October 1963; it was launched on the following
18 December; it was
delivered
The motor ship
similar to the
on
23 May 1964.
of 1,600 nominal
ones of 1,200
tons
tons;
wt.Awth
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(they are vessels
above-mentioned
some structural reinforcements
was launched on 4
It was delivered
March 1964;
to the shipowner
The motorship
on 12
required
engine
by the greater
trials were made
capacity). It
on 2 June 1964.
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It was delivered
mentioned one; launched
March 1964.
The motorship
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taiwft0 the above ?
Aroold.
App1=PciAWAX474.44 the end
mentioned one; launched in April 1964.
of August it was ready to be delivered to the shipowner
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The motorship
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mentioned one; launched
the end of August
on 20 May 1964. It
being at
was Ge=pa
1964.
Tugboat of
800 horsepower,
but without fire-fighting equipment on the 44tmwbridge.
Vos;
--equipped with a "LANG" motor of
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it was completed at the end of 1963. 50X1-HUM
It remained in the waters of the shipyard for the entire winter4,
(-the ?anube prohibited navigation) following agreements reached
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by the management with tobsologazaWx=1 Reinaldo Luis CABRERA (chief
of the 3rd4uta-p*t-rme section - Monserrate 261 - Transimport -HAVANA -
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CUBA) and Dionisio GONZALES, attache at the Cuban Embassy in Budapest.
At the beginning of Spring 1964, the tugboat was to have gone to
ODESSA to be towed directly to Cuba by a Russian ship; in May 1964,
the vessel was in the Yugoslav port of
BAR ready to go to Cuba towed by a Yugoslav "Liberty" coming from
(IZ iSelece).
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Tugboat of 113 tons, imii2avalt.e the preceding one but with hea150X1-HUM
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stralad on a slip on Peoples Island,
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for all p4parRmir on board; It was
on 2 July 1964. It was ordered by Bulgaria.
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The motorship "KARIMATA" of 1,200 nominal tons; 50X1 -HUM
it is equipped with a "LANG"
&tittwood on 18 March 1964; it was launched on 17 June 1964. It will
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motor of 1,000 kaxsopkowar,mei. It was
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be delivered
probably/within this year.
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The motorship "SAWU", ? the preceding one;
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it was launched on
28 July 1964; it was
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at the end
of August 1964. be delivered
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The motorship "SELAJAR",
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under construction
at the end of August 1964.
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[sicS7f. otorship. of 1,200 nominal tons, towarizzril
the preceding ones. In August 1964 it was under construction on a
slip. It is for the USSR.
2) Vessels under construction on the slips of Peoples Island
- Tugboat of 113 tons under construction on a slip. It was
started on 2 July 1964 (already mentioned on page 5 of this report).
It was ordered by Bulgaria.
- 2 floating cranes of 75 or 100 ton under construction on 2 slips.
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- 1 5-ton pontoon loc=d4azzatatuzabit on the gaNe4wa slip.
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3) Program for 1965
p lekvate-.1
the constructions a=til;ifovAi for 1965 are:
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Four motorships of 1,200 nominal tons, for the
USSR. It is probablg that the second of these vessels could be i
wogpowg very soon on one of the free slips.
Four motorships of 1,600 nominal tons
These vessels will have two holds,
instead of 3 like the merchant vessels previously built for the same
shipowner.
Motorship. of 1,600 tons ordered
This vessel will have 3 holds.
,Motorship of 1,200 tons ordered by the USSR.
- A new series of floating cranes is in advanced planning in the
shipyards. The cranes will have the following characteristics:
Ton capacityoof crane:
Crane length in Meters: (2? I . ,;;1 31 3c 4 0 1
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Crane width in meters: la.s1 IS IA 17 I 1g t:Al'c
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Crane height in meters: $1 Q.7 34
Displacement in tons: J0 _59,4 So a 9 isq 4 ci klsb
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- The USSR has already ordered 200 such floating cranes of 16-ton
capacity.
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- Construction of p.opi. of 5, 75, 100 and 150 tons is still 17,z-Aleal--'
woo. FlOating cranes of 100 tons with the inscription "MAGYAR HAJO ES
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DARUGYAR - BUDAPEST" ram seen operating in the port of Alexandria,
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Egypt.
3) Miscellaneous
a) Political courses for the managers of the shipyard
- 1 July 1964.
to
- The engineers Ferenc REICHARDT, secretary aLthe general director
KURUCSEV; and Sandor KAMENY, chief of the Technical Office of the
shipyard, were absent for several days from their offices. They
had to take the exams for the first year of a course in Marxism-
Leninism held in Budapest for managers of state enterprises.
b) Further Soviet request to the management of the shipyard
Up to 31 August 1964
- The- management of the Shipyard is in trouble following the increase
of the absorption of their own productive potential, from 60 to 70
percent, by the Soviet Union.
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c)Orders for the "COMECON"
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the shipyard in
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question has been given a considerable Qnzta. of the planned Na4m4
construction; for the countries of the "COMECON".
d) "OBUDA" shipyards of Budapest
of
- The shipyard is located in the quarter 1J the same name, on the
right bank of the Danube and further down than the "MAGYAR HAJO ES
DARUGYAR" Shipyard.
It builds lighters, tugboats, and riverfooats for the Soviet Union.
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