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Saturday 1 September 2018

Polish Ministry of Shipping ordered Oder shipyards to built tugs identical to the Soviet ones according to a CIA report dated 11 March 1953

An item reported that the Polish Ministry of Shipping ordered the shipyards alongside the Oder to built tugs exactly to the Soviet models and technical documentation. There were to variants of the twin screw coal fuelled tugs.

The type with a horsepower of 200hp had as dimensions 47,8 (total) x 15,3 total x 0,8 (loaded with 40 tons coal).

The 400hp type had as dimensions 57,9 (total) x 17,5 total x 1,05 (loaded with 70 tons coal).

Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP80-00810A000400630005-6