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Sunday, 18 August 2019

Unmanned and unarmed destroyer sighted at Sassnitz, East Germany according to a CIA report dated 29 March 1954


An item reported the sighting of several naval vessels in or around the harbour of Sassnitz between 18 January and 5 February 1954 of a destroyer with two funnels berthed in the northern part of the harbour near the bank. With a length of about 110 metres. She was earlier towed into the harbour by the Russian tug Mb-83. She was estimated to be 20 years old and at the moment without armament and apparently without a crew.

Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number
CIA-RDP80-00810A003800280006-4