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Thursday, 1 November 2018

Polish screw steam tug Bozimir active on the Oder according to a CIA report dated 28 March 1956


An item reported that the Polish Oder Shipping Company possessed the diesel tug Bozimir/ Bozymir with a horsepower of 250 hp active on the Oder between Cossel and Wroclaw.

Note
1. Single screw steam tug. The dimensions are then given as 26,50-28,00 x 5,70 (thrushes changed in 5,94)-5,76 (maximum beam altered in 6,00) x 1,30 (with 10 ton coal and boiler willed with water) x 2,1 metres. The machinery consisted of 1-250ihp triple expansion steam engine and a boiler with a heating surface of 83 square metres. The Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Export Centrale acted as an intermediary between Dutch shipyards and the Polish organisation Polimex (Polsike Towarzystwo Eksporto-Importowe Maszyn i Marzedzi), Warszawa, Poland. Built by Boot, Leiden, Netherlands with yard number 148 in 1949.

Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP83-00418R003300180001-4