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Thursday, 30 August 2018

Large Soviet flagged tow sighted on the Baltic Sea according to a CIA report dated 20 September 1954

An item reported from a distance of around 3 miles the sighting on 21 April 1954 of an apparently Soviet flagged convoy between Gdynia, Poland and Holtenau, Germany. It consisted of 2 tugs with a horsepower of 1.000hp, 2 smaller tugs and a floating dock with a length of around 100 metres. Speed 5-6 knots.

Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP80-00810A004700880008-9