VEB WARNOWWERFT WARNEMUENDE

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2007/09/04 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA005000800010-0
INFORMATION REPORT
This material contains information effecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
Ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person I. prohibited
by law.
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT VEB Warnowwerft Warnemuende
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 13 October 1954
NO. OF PAGES Z
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR RE? SEE REVERSE)
1. Ships under repair at VEB Warnowwerft Warnemuende
a. SOVETSKI SOYUZ
It is hoped that sea trials will be carried out in mid-October. Delay is
still attributed to the failure of the pinion of the turbine reduction gear.
The ship's home port designation is Vladivostok.
b. ADMIRAL WHIM
Scheduled to be delivered on 31 July 1955.
c. YURI DOLGORUKI
Scheduled to be delivered in June 1956.
2. Ships under construction
a. Volga-Don River Craft (under construction on the T-Platte)
The progress on these vessels is as follows:
No. 4 ONEGA - scheduled to sail for Odessa on 31 July 1954, via the English
Channel.
Nos. 5 and 6 - scheduled to be delivered at the beginning of August 1954.
Ship No. 10 and those built subsequently will be 6 m. longer. In 1955, it is
planned to construct six more of these vessels.
b. Pontoons
An unknown number of pontoons, of 15 tons, 50 tons, and 150 tons, for export,
are being constructed in the shipbuilding shed.
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C. Type IV Freighters
It is planned to build four of theme vessels for export. Three hundred tons of
steel for their construction has arrived, but another 300 tone is required
before work can begin. This steel is being supplied from Frankfurt/Oder.
Franz and Schmiedt, of HV Schiffbau, are to leave for China on 31 August 1954
for discussions regarding future contracts for this type of ship.
3. lard Installations
The four shipbuilding plants, which are served by the elevated cable way cranes,
are now complete, Work began in March 1954 on the cutting away of the bank of the
Warnew River so that the new Type IV Freighters, when laid down, can be launched.
This work is to be completed by the and of August 1954.