NAVAL AND SHIPPING INFORMATION SHANGHAI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001200120009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2009
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 22, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document ooptalae infonaation t teetlnl the Na
tionel Defense of the United atstee, within the mean.
Inn of Title 18, 8eotlons 793 and 7$. Of the VA. Code. as
amended. Its tranaule$Ion or ""lotion Of its oonten$e
to or receipt by, an unbuthotltsd peter to prohibited
by law. The reproduction. of this form it pwhlbited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
val and Shipping Information,
Shanghai
4y 1953
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accompanied by twelve Ma mounting
n old two-funne warship
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ten machine guns each, was on patrol off Woosung Bar. Her main armemen1t
consisted of a 4-inch gun with shield forward of the foremast and a similar
g %m in the stern. She had three smaller guns on both port and starboard
sides and a multibarreled machine gun Jut aft of the funnel on both y" and
starboard sides. She also had six drums, resembling depth charges, on both
port 'and... starboard sides in the stern.
a vessel of the former Bendigo Class was on patrol about 18
111les off Woosung Bar, the KUANG CHOU, or a vessel of the
same class, was secured alongside the naval wharf at Woosung.
3. ;:'.9n grey LST's, unarmed, with a crew which appeared to' be dressed in naval
were anchored in the river. Five of these vespels were reported to
'be transporting cotton from Tsingtao; the unloading of? cotton from this typ?25X1
of veiso]: has been observed. These LST's had the designation "Chun" followed
by a three figure number, the first digit of which was 1. Six armed LST'.s,.
about .200 feet long, were also at anchor in the river.
Shanghai
CHIANG T
T _L-rn-'l:nn nassexi er shin built by the Moller Dockyards,
Clot TA SHANGHAI and HSIN SHANG'dAI ?2
?3. The Zolloti1ng foreign merchant ships were discharging cargo at Shanghai in
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A new Polish vessel of about 12,000 tons discharging unidentified cargo
at Weishan Wharf.
d.. A i :000 ton Russian tanker discharging o:Ll by pipe to the China
Peturoleum: Company.
rsh ..ing yard on the opposite side of the river of the .Miatic Petroleum
C,ompaiy.. A. train of teak cars left in the direction of Shanghai every
4~- wen ;r minutes. Your fuel.. bargea~ of about X00 tons capacity, were shipping
gaso...ne from the Asiatic Petroleum o ,parry installation to the opposite side
there-was a large concentration of tank cars in the
of the river , where the asoline was Trumped direct, ir ixsto the tank care.
Docky'ard's.
Shanghai; four were off .the Weishan Dockyards and six in the Wbangpoo
there were at least ten merchant ships under repair at
d Polish vessel of about 10,000 tons discharging oil drums at the
is Petroleum Coinpa: y Wharf.
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