GHEORGHIU-DEJ SHIPYARD

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2005
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 12, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Gheorghiu-Dej Shipyard
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This Document contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code. as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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12 January 1954
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1. Location.
The J gorghiu-De3 Shipyard (formerly Ganz) is located at Meder Street 9,
Budapest XTII.
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s shipyard is under the Ministry of Heavy Industry.
of three partdinss
as Shipbuilding docks*
be Plant for the manufacture of cranes.
c. "Lackovics-telep" plant.
Since late 1952,, the shipbuilding docks and the crane plant have become
more and more independent.
(Lang.:; G3pgyar) of Budapest.
3. Shipbuilding Dockso
a. The ships are built at three docks located south of the railroad
bridge (destroyed), on the east bank of the Winter-Harbor (Telikik8t5),
b. Each dock has its assembly plant, its machine shop, its-sheet metal-
work-shop, and other small shops such as locksmith shop, carpentry
shop, etc.
c. Three ships can be built simultaneously.. They are'seagoing ships of
'1,100 tons each with twin propellers, built for delivery to the USE.
Each propeller is operated by two diesel engines of the Ganz-Jendrassik
type, 800 lisp. each.
d. Construction of the 45th ship was begun in early April 1953.
ee The propellers come from the Ganz Railroad Car and Machine Plant (Ganz.
vagbn es g.epgyar) in Budapest; the engines from, the Ganz Electric
Plant(Ganz villamossigi gyar) at LdvlShAzutca 39, Budapest II; and
a large part of the machinery is furnished by Lang Machine Factory
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Plant for the Manufacture of Cranes.
a. Production.,
This plant produces:
(1) 100-ton floating cranes, similar to the Ady floating cranes used
in the construction of PetBfi bridge in Budapest.
(2) S-ton cranes on rails.
(3) 3-ton-cranes on pilings.
(ii) 10-ton rolling bridges.
(5)' special. cranes to set up and to load blast furnaces. (Recently,
several. of these' cranes were sent to the large .furnace of D16sgy 8r) .
(6) special. loaders, in cooperation with certain shops of the slip as-
sembly docks, for war factories.
Deliveries.
(1) zar 3y in 1953, this plant delivered 6 special loaders for a large
plant and ammunition depot being built at Nagytetbny.. At the end
of.April 1953,'several loaders were also to be provided for the
plants being built at Sirok and at Sajbb&bony.
(2) Four floating cranes were built up to April 1953, of which three
were delivered to the USSR.
(3) By the end of March 1953, 52 5-ton crane`s had been delivered to
the Rug;sians.
The "Lackoyics-telep" Plant.
a This plant was made part of Ganz shipyard in 1949-
b. Lighters for the Hungarian Russian Meszhart navigation firm are built
there at the rate of a'per month. On the average, two lighters a month
are also repaired here.
6. Manufacture of ear. Materiel.
a. War materiel has been manufactured in certain shops of the ship-assembly
docks and in the crane factory since 1951.
b., Since 1951, gun-carriages for 3.7 and 85 mm. antiaircraft guns have been
built. Since the fall of 1952, gun carriages and-gun mounts for 122 mm.
track-howitzers have also been built. Production, in April 1953, was
62 carriages per month, 42 of which were for 122 mm. howitzers.
c. South of Meder utca, construction work has been underway since fall 1952.
When completed, part of the crane factory and the shops manufacturing
gun parts will be established there. Production of gun carriages will
then be done in series.
he above mentioned shops also manufacture antiaircraft-gun carriages,
(37 mm.) to be installed on the bow of the 1,100-ton ships built in
the shipbuilding .yard .
7. Rail'.Connectiop .
Transport of th.e material is carried out by the railroad which goes through
the shipyard, and'which connects the freight stations of Lipbtvaros, RAkosi,
and Magdolnavar,os.
8. Morale.
a.~Tiere are about 1,600 workers. Most of them are not loyal to the Regime,
and many acts of sabotage and fires slow down the production#
b. As a countermeasure, the Communist Party has replaced many old specialized
workers with young militants (ifjumunk.s) loyal to the Party, placing
the other workers under the latter. However, this measure only increased
the confusion, and production has not noticeably increased. Morale is
also low because there are too many pay deductions.
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c. At the shipyards there is a Soviet delivery commission consisting of
three men. Since 1952, their control has been stricter, because of
the numerous defects they found on the completed ships.
Annex: Location of the Gheorghiu-DeJ Shipyard (1 Page)
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Annex
Gheorg'*iu Dej Shipyard, Budapest
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MEND:
1. Shipyard, a. Ship assembly docks
b. Crane factory
c. *Lackovics-telep" plant
d? New shops under constructiot'
2c. Barracks of the Hungarian River Troops
3. Shipyard of the Hungarian River Troops
t. Shipyard of Mefter Company
5. Railroad bridge (destroyecO;'wooden overpass for pedestrians (rebuilt)
6. Destroyed railroad bridge
7., MagdolnavLros station
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