Thaelmann Shipyard, Brandenburg, East Germany building minesweeping pinnaces according to a CIA report dated 5 August 1953

An item reported that the Thaelmann Shipyard, Brandenburg, East Germany was to built under her 1953 building program the minesweeping pinnaces 508/1-508/6. The pinnaces were to be built with 4mm thick skin plates and their propulsion consisted of 2-150/200hp Buckau-Wolf diesels. Their equipment included a starter, an electric compressor, a fire pump, large cable loops, a spraying system and a smoke screen device. In the comments on this item was said that the cable loops were degassing equipment and that the spraying system probably for the ammunition rooms was meant.

Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number
CIA-RDP80-00810A001700630001-3