PLANNED ADDITION TO REFRIGERATION PLANT IN GDYNIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 21, 1959
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
C-O-N -F-1mUmE-N'-T.nr-A-L
COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Planned Addition to Refrigeration
Plant in Gdynia
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
NO. PAGES 1
DATE OF
FIELD REPORT NO.
SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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la report containing information on the planned
addition to a refrigeration plant in Gdynia. The plant is located on the
pier used by the fishing fleet. 50X1-HUM
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Washington distribution indicated by "X"; Field distribution by "#".)
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED ADVANCE I1)RMATION
PLANNED ADDITION TO REFRIGERATION PLANT IN GDYNIA, POLAND (C)
Summary: This.report gives details of a planned :expansion of a refrigeration plan..
in the Polish port. of GDYNIA. It also gives details of the existing
building-and other facilities on .the same pier.
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PLANNED ADDITION TO REFRIGERATION PLANT IN GDYNIA, POLAND (C)
Listed below are the requirements
keyed to the page on which the answer
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A. Details reconstr and reorgn tank-farm (give dimensions, capacities ...3
and locations tanks) and planned refinery on west bank Vistula River.
Give details pr9ducts stored, pipeline layout and transfer.berths.
Details attempts to reconstr collapsed quayage this port.
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Details 5 story refrigeration plant north of Danzig constr in 56.
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Give dimensions and capacities.
D. Details wooden pier at which vegetable oil is unloaded. ....3
"E. Condition grain storage bldg on west side Holm Island. Give details ...3
handling equip.capacity.
F. Dimensions area behind coal quay .3
B.
C.
east bank Vistula River.
H. Capacities pontoon (2), highway (1) and rail highway (1) bridges
connecting west and south sides Holm Island with west bank Vistula
River.
known to.be site dump for coal b Bring station.
G. Capacity.-railway ferry which runs between SE and Holm Island and ...3
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1. Details planned straightening and widening of the acute channel ...3
turn at NOWY PORT. Give plans tostraighten Vistula River by new
channel through Westerplatte Peninsula. Locate new channel and give
dimensions and connections. Describe proposed use in relation to
NOWY PORT and Westerplatte Basins.
J. Info on exact depth each portion Danzig harbor where Vistula and ...3
Motlawa Rivers have deposited silt and reduced depth. 'What dredging
opns are in force and what is planned?
K. Details any,permanent bridge (in existence or planned) connecting ...3
Wyspa Holm with mainland. Give location and evidence of type
(approaches, abutments, and if now under constr, stockpiling of
bridge structural members at crossing sites).
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there is a very large firm in that produces
vegetable oil that is distributed over the entire nation. This is a large firm and
has extensive facilities.
E. there is a very large grain elevator on the southeast
corner of Holm Island, 50X1-HUM
There is also a grain e evator in Ton the west bank of the Visti??-'.
F.
on Holm Island- a so
port area.
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a coalstorage__srea (Basin Weglowy na Holmie)
a coal storage area in the GDYNIA 50X1-HUM
no railway ferry going to Holm Island.
no pontoon bridge to Holm Island. There is one bridge
going to Hoim Island,
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PLANNED ADDITION TO REFRIGERATION PLANT IN GDYNIA, POLAND (C)
refrigeration work.
/ this wo wr as
one by a section. of the Gdansk_Maritime.Construction Bureau which handled all
1. Proiect
a three-story addition to be built onto
an existing four-story refrigeration plant on the pier at GDYNIA used by the local
fishing fleet. The pier had two refrigeration plants, both reinforced concrete
structures built in the 1939's and considered quite modern at that time. They 50X1-HUM
appeared to have been built with provisions for expansion, brit they did not lend
themselves to current construction methods
Although the refrigeration plant was out of date, the new addition had to
be designed to. conform to the older methods. In making the plans, the personnel
of the Gdansk Maritime Construction Bureau mostly, therefore copied from the
original lane..
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Because the new building was to use relatively old construction methods,
the personnel doing the work, since they
had no experience with the older techniques, would have trouble following the
construction methods planned. special problems with the stairway,
which was not inside the building as in most current Polish construction., but was
to hang on the outside.
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This refrigeration plant was on the pier which served the fishing fleet
at UTM coordinates CF 420447.
2. Location of the Refrigeration Plant
there was
one main paved road down the center of the pier, and the areas on each side of.the
pier were generally built up. Other than the two refrigeration planta
no buildings of any size, but the_pier had many smaller
buildings on it. A railroad spur was beside the refrigeration plant for which
the addition was planned. There were other spurs on the pier running beside other
buildings.
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The refrigeration plant for the addition was quite
a bit.sm_aller than the other, which was about 10 stories high and was the main
plant. It contained offices as well as refrigeration facilities. (See Annex A,
sketch of the pier.)
3. Details of the Refrigeration Plant and the Addition
a. Existing Structure
This building was of reinforced concrete, 4-stories high, and generally
had on each floor one large refrigerated room surrounded on all four sides by an
unrefrigerated hallway. The large refrigerated roomabout 39 m by 40 to.. had a
number of reinforced concrete columns in its but no permanent walls dividing it
into smaller rooms. Some of the large rooms were divided into smaller parts by
uninsulated brick walls, which were not part of the permanent construction but
were movable. The reinforced concrete pillars were about 35 cm on a side. On the
main floor the columns were larger, about 40 cm on a side.
Along the surrounding corridor there were doors leading into
refrigerated room, of steel with insulation on the back.
the
they were about 1.5 m wide, wide enough for small carts to get through when
carrying a load.
there were windows on the exterior
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The cooling equipment was not located in each room', but either in
the basement or on the main floor. The temperature in each room could be regulated
independently, in accordance with the season of the year, the type of fish stored,
and the length. of time they were to be stored.
b. Proposed Addition.
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The proposed addition consisted of three-stories
to be built on top of the existing structure, to which it was very similar in
design. The square reinforced concrete columns which were to be built as part of
the addition were to be smaller than the columns in the existing part, 25 cm on a
side instead of 35 cm.
The planning of the refrigerating equipment was handled by-,a section
of the Gdansk Maritime Construction Bureau which specialized in refrigeration
planning.
See Annex B for a sketch
of the refrigeration plant with its proposed addi on and Annex C, which shows
cross-sections of the insulating walls for the addition.)
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ANNEX A
SKETCH OF FISHING FLEET PIER IN GDYNIA, POLAND
Larger of the two refrigeration
plants on the fishing pier. This
plant was approximately 10 stories
high and was about four or five times
as large as the other refrigeration
plant. This building contained offices
as well as refrigerated storage areas.
This pier was located at UTH
coordinates CF 420447.
Refrigeration plant for which
addition was planned. This was
the smaller of the two refriger-
ation plants on the fishing pier.
Railroad spur which ran
beside the refrigeration plant.
There were other railroad spurs
on the pier.
This r d ran generally down the center of the
pier; there were built-up areas on. both sides
of this road, although there were no other buildings
as large as the refrigeration plants.
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SKETCH OF REFRIGMATION PLANT AND PLANNED ADDITION ON
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ANNEX 0
SKETCH OF INSULATED WALLS FOR PLANNED ADDITION TO
25 - 38 cm
REFRIG RATION PLANT IN GDYNIA, POLAND
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Malls with across
section like this were
to be used for the
parts of the addition
requiring most insulation.
These cross sections show the two types of walls used for insulation.
The thicknesses of the different layers sometimes varied, according to the
temperature for which the room was designed.
Stucco
Walls with a cross
section like this
were to be used for
parts of the addition
requiring less
insulation.
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