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Wednesday, 19 September 2018

Austrian DDSG motor tug Ried sighted on Austrian part of the Danube according to a CIA report dated 7 February 1949

An item referred to a list published by the Austrian Ministry for Property Control and Economic Planning dealing with the shipping on the Austrian Danube divided in kilometres on 8 May 1945. On kilometre 2135 was sighted the Austrian DDSG motor tug Ried with a horsepower of 900hp.

Note
1. The DDSG (Sowjetische Donau Dampf Schiffahrts Gesellschaft m.b.H.) was controlled by the Soviet Union between 1945-1955.

Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP83-00415R002100070001-9