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Saturday, 1 September 2018

Austrian DDSG tug Kronstadt sighted on the Danube according to a CIA report dated 11 March 1953

An item dealing with the shipping on the Danube reported the departure on 1 December 1952 by the DDSG ((Austrian shipping Erste Donau-Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft between 1945-1955 controlled by the Soviet Union)  tug Kronstadt from Moldava, Czechoslovakia (nowadays the Czech Republic)  towing 4 loaded and 4 empty cargo barges bound for Vienna, Austria where she was expected to stay during the winter.

Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP80-00810A000400710008-4