ORIGIN OF MATERIALS USED IN SHIP CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004101000007-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 2010
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 11, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE. AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY
Poland
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.B. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its eontentas
to or receipt by an unauthorized person Is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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SUBJECT Origin of Materials Used in Ship
Construction and Repair
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
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The majority of heavy castings such as anchors, sections of deck winches, etch..
used'in'Polish shipyards are ordered from the casting foundry in Stalinogrod
A11'engines installed in new ships built in Poland are purchased abroad.. Poland
does not manufacture a y propulsion machinery for ships and does not receive any
deliveries from the Soviet Union.
(Katowice).
3. Certain auxiliary machinery such as pumps, generators, compressors etc. is
imported from Hungary and Czechoslovakia in very small quantities.
Polish shipyards have received some small deliveries from Hungary of electric
motors for driving deck winches, etc.
5. Czechoslovakia supplies Polish shipyards with electric cables, switch gear, lamp
sockets, etc.ybut.not in sufficient quantities.
All precision instruments such as gyrocompasses., magnetic compasses, chrono-
meters, radio installations, echo sounding equipment, fitted on vessels con-
structed in Poland,are purchased in the West.
The steam engines for the steam-powered fishing trawlers constructed in Gdansk
(Danzig) for the, Soviet Union and Arka are imported from Western countries9 but
the boilers are manufactured in Gdansk,
A11 sheet metal and steel used in ship construction in Poland is of Polish origin.
9. Increasing difficulties are being experienced in Polish shipyards in obtaining
certain articles for fitting-out ship; .]ready completed and launched. The main
articles causing the bottleneck in caistruction are as follows-
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a. Gyro, .nd magnetic compasses.
b. Radio equipment.
c. Echo sounders.
d. Radar equipment for larger vessels.
e. Auxiliary engine room equipment such as circulation pumps, bilge pumps, com-
pressors, auxiliary lighting equipnentsfuel injection pumps.and,for steam
driven vessels, forced draught blowers.
f. All non-ferrous metals such as phosphor bronze., white bearing surf~c&ng metals,
etc. The only source of supply of this type of metals open to Polish ship-
yards are the very small quantities they are able to import from the West and
metals salvaged from wrecked and sunken vessels.
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