An item reported the observation of several Russian navy vessel at the Polish harbour of Swinoujscie. Sighted were 2 Soviet BO-93 submarine chasers, anchored along both sides of the canal leading to the harbour 4 trawlers, 14 torpedo cutters berthed in the basin east of the before mentioned canal and a soviet tug along the east bank of this canal heading toward open sea. Astern of this same tug was a destroyer lying similar to the German Second World War destroyers although unarmed and lacking radar devices; she was in fact a former German ship. With a length of around 100 metres was her estimated gross register tonnage 1.200 tons. Fitted out with 1 short and squat smoke stack with a raked funnel and a mast before the stack. The oil fuelled destroyer lacking markings left the harbour with the tug by 10 March 1953 underway from East Germany to a Soviet harbour to be rearmed. Both vessels visited the harbour for seeking shelter from a heavy storm.
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The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP80-00810A001100350004-7
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