MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION ON GDYNIA AND VARIOUS MERCHANT VESSELS

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2005
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 22, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY Poland
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SUBJECT Miscellaneous Information on Gdynia
and Various Merchant Vessels
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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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22 January 1954
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1, The main entrance to the harbor of Gdynia is in very good condition. The channel
was not deepened after the war; its depth is approximately ten meters. The width
of the main entrance is approximately 30 m., which enables two large ships to pass
each other freely.
2. Two small sentry boxes have been built at each end of the breakwater at Gdynia.
These are equipped with searchlights which are turned on to passing ships by the
Border Guard (wOP), The sentry boxes are connected by a telephone line with the
WOP headquarters in Gdynia.
3.
At Gdynia hydrants are available on all quays at intervals of 200 yards, by means
of which ships take in water for drinking and for the boilers. The water is con-
verted into boiler water on board ship by the addition of the necessary chemicals.
A request for water is placed with the Harbormasteras Office, from where a man is
sent at the hour specified to connect a hose of the kind used by fire engines to
the nearest hydrant. The output of the hydrant when such a hose is used is approx-
imately 50 tons of water per hour, The cost of the water is approximately two or
four dollars per ton.
The S.S. JOZEF WIECZOREK has been renamed the S.S. GDYNIA The hull was built in
Gdansk (Danzig) The shi was sold
USSR and in July 1953 was taken by a Polish crew to Riga.
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disposition of the following ships known to have been launched
n Poland in 1950-1951:
The S.S. GDANSK is being completed in the Paris Commune shipyard at Gdynia.
The S.S. WARSZAWA was probably renamed the S.S. NOVA HUTA.
The S.S. SZCZECIN has now been sold to the USSR.
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6. The S.S. MIKOLAJ REJ is not the slowest vessel in the Polish fleet. 'When her keel
is clean and in average weather she can make a speed of ten knots. The slowest
ship is the KOLOBRZEG, whose greatest speed is seven knots though her theoretic.].;
speed is 12. It was discovered by chance that the Germans had blocked up several
of the steam vents before handing the ship over. When some of the blocked up
places were found and unstopped, her speed was increased from six to seven knots.
A-s`miiaz`ly slow ship is the STALOWA WOLA, which can make at most ten knots in good
weather.
7. It is true that the lift boom on the forward mast of the S.S. KOSCIUSZKO has a
lifting capacity of 120 tons. The ship is adapted for carrying heavy cargoes such
as locomotives. The S.S. PCTLAWSKI has a similar lift boom.
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