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Tuesday, 17 September 2019

Icebreaker and tug needed support for ships underway towards Kronstadt according to a CIA report dated 15 March 1957

An item reported that ships needed assistance of a tug and the brand new icebreaker Kapitan Moscovich when underway to Kronstadt. The icebreaker was still not completed missing equipment like a radar/ Her four diesel engines supplied a total horsepower of 12.000hp.(1)

Note
1. Of the diesel-powered icebreaker Kapitan Belousov-class?

Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP80T00246A033200070001-5