Lloyd Werft Wismar

Lloyd Werft Wismar
Type	1951–1990 VEB 1990– GmbH
Industry	Shipbuilding
Founded	1946
Headquarters	Wismar, Germany
Products	Fishing Vessels; River cruise ships; Passenger ships; Cargo ships
Number of employees	700
Parent	Lloyd Werft Group
Website	www.nordicyards.com

Lloyd Werft Wismar (former VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar, Aker MTW Werft, Wadan Yards MTW, Nordic Yards Wismar) is a German shipbuilding company, headquartered in Wismar. Since June 1, 1990 it has been part of the Deutschen Maschinen- und Schiffbau AG (DMS AG),[1] 2009–2016 was part of the Nordic Yards Holding GmbH,[2] and since 2016 is part of the Lloyd Werft Group.

History

The ship repair yard was founded by Red Army on April 27, 1946.[3] The Ivan Susanin was the first ship repaired at this yard. The shipyard developed quickly, from Soviet ship repair yard to VVB Schiffsreparaturwerft Wismar, in 1948, renamed to Hochseeschiffbau Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar VEB, in 1951. The first new ship V. Chkalov was built for the Soviet Union as war reparations after World War II on March 30, 1954.

In 2016, Genting Hong Kong purchased Nordic Yards Wismar and combined it with the Nordic Yards Warnemunde and Stralsund shipyards and the German Lloyd Werft shipyard to form the Lloyd Werft Group,[4] subsequently reorganized as MV Werften.[5]

Ships built by Nordic Yards Wismar 2009-2016

Container ships

MS Asterix 2010 - being converted (2015-2018) as Auxiliary replenishment vessel for Royal Canadian Navy

Ships built by VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar 1951-1990 (selection)

Folding kayaks

Typ Kolibri

Cargo ships

Typ Afrika
Typ MBC
Typ OBC

River cruise ships

V. Chkalov (1954) - Rodina-class motorship for Yenisei Shipping Company
Korolenko (1954)
Kavkaz (1958)

Ocean liners/Cruise ships

Mikhail Kalinin (1958) - scrapped in India 1994
Feliks Dzerzhinskiy (1958) - sank off Canton, China 1993
Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze (1959) - scrapped in India 1992
Bashkiriya (1964) - sank 2006 in Chao Praya River (Bankok, Thailand) as MS Siritara Ocean Queen
Aleksandr Pushkin (1965) - renamed as MS Marco Polo in 1991 and still in service as a Bahamas-registered ship
MS Mikhail Lermontov (1972) - sank 1986 nearMarlborough Sounds in New Zealand

Marco Polo (originally named Aleksandr Pushkin)
Mikhail Kalinin – the first passenger ship in sea-shipping history returned from Antarctica
Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze at shipyard on April 9, 1959
Korolenko as hotelship at Vyborg
The Russian training ship Gospodin Velikiy Novgorod on the Volkhov River
Feliks Dzerzhinskiy at the outfitting quay

References

VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar Archived 2013-06-15 at the Wayback Machine(in German)
Aker MTW Werft GmbH Archived 2013-04-11 at Archive.today(in English)
VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar Archived 2013-06-15 at the Wayback Machine(in German)
"Aktuelles - Pressemitteilungen - Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven". lloydwerft.com. Archived from the original on 1 June 2016. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
"Genting HK to invest 100m euros in its German shipyard MV Werften". The Star. 11 June 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2018.

External links

Nordic Yards Home Page

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[1] VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar Archived 2013-06-15 at the Wayback Machine(in German)

[2] Aker MTW Werft GmbH Archived 2013-04-11 at Archive.today(in English)

[3] VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar Archived 2013-06-15 at the Wayback Machine(in German)

[4] "Aktuelles - Pressemitteilungen - Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven". lloydwerft.com. Archived from the original on 1 June 2016. Retrieved 11 May 2016.

[5] "Genting HK to invest 100m euros in its German shipyard MV Werften". The Star. 11 June 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2018.