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Monday 11 February 2019

Polish single screw steam tug Chwalisaw active on the Oder according to a CIA report dated 27 January 1953


An item reported that on the section Kozle-Wroclaw-Redzin [the former German places Cosel-Breslau-Ransern] the Polish single screw steam tug Chwalisaw master Jozef Fesser was active. Dutch built. Horsepower 250hp.(1)

A new river convoy was formed with below the last sluice near Redzonthe small tug Podhalanin especially used there for the local formation. Some barges were from there towed to their destination, others went on own power when the cargo was to be delivered according to a time schedule. If so such a barge needed minimal 8 days to go from Redzin to Szczecin, when towed maximum 5 days. The travel time for this section was just 48 hours. Were all the locks in full operation, the entrance to the sluice in Katy near Opole, the lock entrance at Groszowice [Groschowitz] and the point blow the bridge in Olava (alluvial sand deposits) were still potential problem areas.

Note
1. According to a contract signed between the Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Export Centrale, Rotterdam, Netherlands and the N.V. Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde, Vlissingen, Netherlands as result of the treaty between the Netherlands and Poland dated 18 December 1946 was the shipyard to built 3 single screw steam tugs with a horsepower of 350hip for the building costs of each ƒ 354.839,99. The dimensions are then given as 26,50-28,00 x 5,70 (thrushes changed in 5,94)-5,76 (maximum beam altered in 6,00) x 1,30 (with 10 ton colas and boiler willed with water) x 2,1 metres. The machinery consisted of 1-250ihp triple expansion steam engine and a boiler with a heating surface of 83 square metres. The Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Export Centrale acted as an intermediary between Dutch shipyards and the Polish organisation Polimex (Polsike Towarzystwo Eksporto-Importowe Maszyn i Marzedzi), Warszawa, Poland. Built at the Ysselwerf Fa. Byker, Gorinchem, Netherlands with yard number 114 (Kon. Mij. De Schelde yard number 265), contract signed on 10 July 1947, ordered on 30 April 1947, laid down on 24 May 1948, launched on 27 January 1949, official trial on 24 May 1949 and delivered on 27 May 1949.

Sources
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP80-00926A005900840001-6
Archive Kon.Mij. De Schelde 1875-1970 214.661 and card system(Towns Archive Vlissingen, Netherlands).