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Friday 16 July 2021

The fleet of the Albanian navy according to a CIA report dated 13 January 1953

An item reported that the Albanian navy possessed one gunboat armed with 2 medium calibre guns and 2-2cm machineguns, two in Germany built vedettes, 4 small torpedo boats stationed at Durres, 25 Soviet speedboats, 10 so-called Italian silurante [motor torpedoboats] stationed at Vlone, 4 tugs and 16 motor sailing vessels armed with small guns. The ships were active between Saseno Island and Punta Faro.

Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP82-00457R015700350006-8