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Wednesday 23 October 2019

Austrian Korneuburg shipyards building steam pile drivers for the Soviet Union according to a CIA report dated 21 July 1954

An item reported the passing on 1 September 1953 of the Soviet Danube Shipping Company (SDGP)  motor ship Taman going downriver. On tow was a new steam pile driver built at the Austrian Korneuburg shipyards for the Soviet Union. On 3 September was a similar steam pile driver built by the same shipyards berthed in the harbour of Bratislava, Czechoslovakia  [now Slovakia]. Seven days was she sighted at Komarno, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia) towed by the Soviet Danube Shipping Company (SDGP) ship Suhomy towards the Soviet Union.

Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP80-00810A004300560010-2