An item reported that the Polish Salvage Organisation (P.R.O.) since April 1951 among other salvage operations was employed in the salvage of the German torpedo transport Leverkusen. She was at the moment lying in the Oksywie dock in Gdynia.(1) After repairs was she to be commissioned in the Polish navy.(2)
Notes
1. At the army seaport Oksywie was a German torpedo statation nicknamed Formoza.
2. Part of San Francisco-class. Launched by Deutsche Werft A.G., Finkenwarder-Hamburg, Germany with yard number 107 for account of the Hamburg-America Line on 26 May 1928, was to be named Kurland but renamed for the launching, completed in July 1928, when England declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939 was she laid up at Naples, Italy, requistioned by the Kriegsmarine on 22 October 1940, became supplier for North Africa after conversion into a transport, painted overal grey and sunk after being damaged in a torpedo attack by the British submarine HMS Upholder on 1 May 1941 underway from Tripolis, Libya towards Naples.
Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP80-00810A004300970004-4
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