INFORMATION ON SWINEMUNDE ( SWINOUJSCIS ) AND STETTIN ( SZCZECIN )

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• Publication Date: January 9, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Information on Swinrrliinde (Swinoujscie)
and Stettin (Szczecin)
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF I
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Sovl at !Lgmbi
One ex Gerrian ninesrneper alongside the ivharf near the harbor Office,,
one TIGB patrollin.7 tho harbor, and s Ix. ex Geri: n rrn ueepera 1:yin" at
O;aternothhafen rare observed.
by for y
1) Two Soviet tugs, ex gln and Stettin
2) Icebreaker Poseidon, forderly Dutch, alongside the tharf fiyin the
Polish flafp,o
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"ordillora., lyin7 at the dolphins at EichGta-den, salv?ate r,york in
process.
Wreck of ex-German S. S, Iiilde (Ippen Line, 600 tons), 3y nT at
Osternothhafen,
One AA ;run about 4 cit.,,, on the east side of the entrance near the role,
between the beach and troodso
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2 ~Ireckp at Szozec x tett rz)
This passenger vessel of 8,000 tons, bolonrmn- to the Seedien,it Ostp ussen,
tihieh used to lie in the i,8IL Fahrt, has been raised and toned of'f to the
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b tit c Altarecih llor
Ex German .freighter of 1,500 tors, now raised and ]ping alongside the
hnhof for repairs.
0, Ar1q]
Finnish vessel of 2,500 tons, now raised and lyinn in the Vorfiut Tca:anal.
Finland claims restitution.
Small icebreaker, now raised and under repair.
Swedish vessel sunk in she ?eiher-,rerdorhafen, now raised and lying in
the Damsel-ion See. Of value only a sci p.
f. Artusl2oc
The wreck of this ex Gribal Line vessel of 2,000 tons is still lyi.n ; in
the west basin of the Freihafen.
ilowlhama
W neck of thifl ex German passenger liner is lying in the {cnigsfahrt op'
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p osite Feic hie (position 530 317 30" North, 140 37w 80" Last)4
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A small Danish warship, a German minesweeper and the Nymphs, all of therm.
scuttled by the Germans, are lying in the Enge Oder at Oderbnich, and no
work is in progress at the moment.
i. Eizipp 1n the IA Pak
The follo,ring vessels Trnre swank as block ships in the 118.21n .Fah.rt; foss
(Gribel Line 2,000 tons), Hanna Cords, Ru r, Viadra, and UskS. Although
the Rose had now been :wised, further salvage work has been abandoned, as the
17mgehuagsbrucke has now been reconstructed as a fixed bridge, Salvage on
the 800-ton ex-Gribel Line Alexandra trh.iclz lies in the Farni~z has been
abandoned for the came reason.
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The follow$ng tams have been raieed and are now in service; Verdauadi, Cann,
Fledw ig, Louis, Jageteuffel, and Wo jnitz,
3 ~'rsr?t I sj aJ1 ~.ca 3 =sum S 2e .n
a. ELJher.!_ S ? fen
1) The old part of this basin, the east jetty, is used the Poles and
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as 4 rmew, cranes (each of 3 tori capacity) and 2 old ones,,
The south part of the basin is in Russian hands and has 2 crane br^:ldges
of 15a tons each. and 2 bunker bridges; New cranes are under cow traiction,
..ad this part of the basin is being extended up to the Altendan ?aern
at ; ?asse, t'he work to be co-,pl eted in about six months
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:1) The large warehouse at the head of the east side of Basin No. I
(War?thehafen), which was f'or aerly used for army fodder, is in use.
2) In Basin Nod II (Netzehafen), the wrecks of the ea;'-G r n naval
auxiliary Tears and of the Italian Monbaldo (now r3ised by the Ru s
clans) are lyinc at' the North Quay. Two old and two new cranes. o.
3 tons each are in operation.
3) The site of the f order Kl8cknert?orko (situated between Basins Nos.,
I and II) is being used by the Poles for 'coal ship Zentse.
f~) The Stinnes plant, located between the Pax tz and the Steinbr?ae fen;
in in Polish hands. The oil tanks are in order and 5 now cranes ha,~ie
been erected, but the former large bridge cranes tare de troyedm In
this area there is a small Russian shipyard which carries out repairs
on tugs and river craft.
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a) The large warehouse on the east jetty +il.ager^speicher) is lo ing
used by the Russians as a storehouse. Uarehouse 1 is partly des-
troyed., partly in use, while `aarehousej 2, 3, and 4 are totally
destroyed.
h) On the east jetty there are one crane of 10 tons (not in action)
and one small crane in working order. On the Crest jetty there are
four electric cranes of 4 tons oppoe-ate 'Tarehouse 5 and two 3-ton
cranes opposite r?Tarehouse 6.
The 10-ton land crane at the north end of these basins has ca-rsl.zed
and is now ]yin,p in the tenter.
2) Viehhof ttv
Cranes taork3.ng here are one bridge crane of 5 tons, two ton cranes
and two French cranes of 10 tons.
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One bridge of 5 tons and seven old cranes are in action on the north jetty
of Lastradie and a now teahouse is under construction.
e. Co?aP4911 ties
Vessels can be supplied by a Russian Floating Bunker Station, ta?hich works
with grab cranes at an hourly output rate of 50 tons and charges 20 U.S.
dollars per ton. Private Polish firms also offer Tc nker coal at 15 U.S.
dollars per ton, bit vessels have to trait for days to be supplied 0
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No crater boats are available,and vessels can be supplied only from the
Hakonterrasse at the rate of 5 tons per day.
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a,, The extension of the Roiherwerderhafen now order construction (sew , a,..
3 a (2) above).
b. South part of the Tirpitz m eal up to the Brcdowor Graben. Alt ough only
one crane is at present in action hem,,, new cranes are to be erected,,
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T tix, diffe a tt sectors of Szczecin are to serve as a Csechoslovvak Frei Teri
5o F Ccrae Sr
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The fol?owin floatin cranes are available in Szcuecin. Harborz
a, ,ggp
One with lifting capacity of 100 ton: and one o 30 tons.
bo In Poli aF
One with lifting capacity of 100 tons and three af 60 tons each and tum
of 30 tons each..
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This yard "v is conH3ete dismantled by -Tae Russians and aaotr ocj so::ae
repairs to small ca ft era carried out thFa by the i'olirh firm ilhich
operates It. he slips are in order the exception o,3 small dam-
age to some of the 'antries, and two crams re in, each o:' 5 tong ca-
acity,. No dry or floating c?c eke aro, ho ,giver, available.
2) The last ship to be construct. befor, thy:, yard w,a dssr ntle$ , the
Olin , a vessel of 3,000 tons of the C+ar,?.an Hansa type, is now In !3a:t
vice with the Gdynia.Aa riean I.Tne. hull of another vessel of -%he
sane class me flled off the tslIp by `,he Russians and is now ;wz:a.I;ry.n
scrapqoing in the yard
The Vulkanuerft was cor_pletely dicmrntled by t.tie Russians and there is no
sign of its resurgence. The 12,000-ton float;'_ g dock c4 s toed off to
Russian. Baltic port some t rime ago, and only one crane of 30 tons lifting.
c?.pacity is left to help load the dismantled machinery
This yard is situated at, Sto:Tzonhaton/ r tsw ek m d formerly belonged to
C. `1613.he~...rz.. It is nou operated by a Polish firm anal carries out rerairs
to s a33. vessels.
Nue sT e >h:it
The Hues Yard served the Germans as a marine arsenal and has been com
pletely dismantled by the Russians. The site, vb1ch :is connected by rail
to I3redow Railway Station, is used by the Poles for c--al storage,, - Eicht
cranes remain there, some of l anc, some of 2 tons cappacity.
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The Bauhof, at fir t disrantled the Rus.aia3na, is nor Bing Bonet cted
by the Poles, and repairs to rierchant. ve ss :ls are carried out
l.) The fox aer Gard: an yard on the southwest end of the T rpi o inesi,
which used to build gun -boats, has he;en cor?apletely dismantled by
the ftxssians and al_1 the m achi aer7 has been renovod zrith the e
caption of the boiler house and a so,,:iated equi ant.
On this site a private Polish f irra Is working on the . const:xa!ct5 on
of harbor cranes (1.3ippkrne) a It 1.3 said locally that 50 have peen
ordered in all for the harbor and that delivery of part of this order
ha s, already Nam affected. The ea.:rs=:9S are of 3 tons li ti g., capacity
and the iron arrives from G1i,,31ce.
7. P'leirchsrat SYai~~3n
The Soviet Shipping Agency M.O. .,, located at Stettin, Dorrnstrassl,
controls the ?,3hole of the shipping business in Mattin. There area
at present various private subsidiary firms Under Polish control
(brokers, stevedores, tallymenn, etc.,) bit by I March 1949 these
are to b a merged into two nationalized cmeerns t, s- & . ch a i 11 work
seeder the general supervision of T 1.O. R.
Large shipments of cement, machinery and other , neral c`ar,o are at
pre: ant being loaded at Stettin for Mmrm artsk in Greek area Soviet
vessels. Between 15 and 18 January 1949 these included tinn followii
1) Soviet S.S. I ar shall Govorov of 9.,000 tens, speed 16 1,?a e ts.
2) Soviet 3.S. Ains Maria T3urinz.on of 6,000 tons.
3) Greek S.S. Georgic Ga
4) Three other Soviet vessels, all of 6,000 to 5,000 tons, we-m- In
port.
Ab.,~ ITS
1) 2,600 Soviet vessels of 2,000-8,000 tone too; all kinds of ood
to Soviet port s, c?b.ief]y "liberate& propexti, in 1946.
2) 200,000 tons of sugarwreei:por'ted from Stet in to USSR in l946 ,7,,
3) 2,500,,000 tons of coal recarried from Stet';in to K6nigshurg,, Rita,
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and i.en.ingr.?ad In 1944.
Baltic and Northern Ports.
In addition large c uantitio:s of cement,, nac)hine: y, bicycles,, sewing
machines, and motor cars are at present being extorted to Russ:ien
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a. Bauimbr ckes Destroyed
b. Ilansabr olaa i Destroyed
0. Eisenbai nbr4lcke: Destroyed
do Grosse Gbenbrckes Destroyed
e. Bahnhofsbrilcke s Destroyed
Z. Uehungsk icke: (Jun ?ernberg) . Reconstructed; this is the only
why bridge connecting Stettin with the east?
g, Elsenbahnbr cke, Parnitz: Destroyed
h. P? mit6.H-' o : Destroyed, but now roplaced by a fixed U.S. engineer
bridgea
i? Yorfiutl .nalb cke: Destroyed, but now under reconstruction.
3. Eisenbr cke to Podojuch: Destroyed
ka Railway bridge from central Frei ht station to Dreslauer station. 1lcaaa
reconstructed as a single-track fixed bridge (for may swing bridge,),,
Z, New fixed bridge U. S. engineer bridge) has been built across the Oder
river from the Gr en Schan en to Lastadia
mo New bridge (fixed U.S? en ineer bride-a) has been built across the G moss
Reglitz (Zollstrom)a
n, The Berlin-Kolbitzovr Reichsautobahn is in use
9. S t ~? : Ix x. i _ Cc~ ce :fl .x? ! fee .. 4
as Sfreini~Ifen Area
1) D.A.P.G. plant is now in the hands of the Polish firm Contralti Naphta
and nose of the oil tanks are. in order.
2) Grosslftvmrk, Stettin, (Central Power Station), located near the
D. Aa P, G, plant, is now working with two old turbines, the new ones
having been dismantled by the Russians,
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1) Ehrhardtehof and 1Tansalager both burnt out.
2) TFandtsr.hle (feldspar) di?ntled by the Russians
3) Ippen Werksthte (small shipyard) dismantled by the Russians,
4.) Distillery at north end of Fl t iese working for Russians.
5) Lack mid FarbenP,,, rke at north end in order and workin ?,,
6) S ge; rk Schmidt at . south and working for Russians d
7) Large Train elevator at head of Oder-Dunzi Kanal in use, but machinery
is out of order and the grain cannot be sucked into the elevator.,
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 Working, but u ter supply inadequate.
da,rs In order and 1wrorkingm
0. Soa z? IL ? i i Totally destroyed.
Ao ?, c7 ]s: All rsachine ? and elevators disrantled by Russians
and tanks left in Polish hands.
g. g _ te: Used for shi mite of coal and ore, one bridge crane of 5
tons capacity working?
he h z. C t, a ;: Total s destrcoyed a
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Disntled by Russiaw, nnow he--
ing reconstructed by Poles
ZLr MAp,. Dismantled Ly Russians,, now 'ring
reconstructed by Poles.
?sa a F .e o R ~ ets: Low cn9rking for Russians and extended.
in rcxr.~ .-~hw,~ sb~ e ;aeadc Dis-,
mantled by Russians.
me G x s `ri to at_S,Mrdoj e: Di wmntled by Russians,
U. & a " 8 Totally di. ,mantled by Russians,
y4Langti.o, P1 i Di_ mantled by Russians- Poles now dismantling
hat the Russians left.
is h?rr"ent ry se ,lark r Ak `how vorkin ; : in e blaet fuma acr In
operation and a second to be opened shortlyy.
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bj t` arm ra e A 7de: Work n and largely extended by Russians,
rQ Std4 r e S et 3sas (Motor. car factory) Dismantled by Russ-tans.
S. C mi e Prodix
'orntrter c~ i z: Dismantled by Russians.
t. idi.er Chanttfabr? k: Dism nntled by Rszssi .as, now beia reconstructed
by Poles.
U. I 3~ has E Work Ste,: t s Dismantled by Russians.
V. 5 c x! Schrr?aubenf~ S e izes Dismantled Russians.
arm a s In order and work nn?S for Poles.
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a? The local Soviet HQ is located in the Falkeny,rerde' rstrasse, bet Teen Arn t-
platz and Eckeberger 1, kkerei. Dornstrasse 2 biouses a Soviet military and
zvival radio station.
bo The iCreckoworstrasse Barracks are occupied by Soviet troops, the Glambeck
Barracks by Polish troops, and the Linsingstrasse Barracks by German families.
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a, In January 19, 49 Soviet and Polish ArV maneuvers were boing carried out
In the Stargard and F8ittz areas.
de There 1 an evacuated zone betTaeen the Ihna river, and Kolberga All vil-
lager In this area are erp y and the land is going to unotoa
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