Admiralty shipyard Hamburg

Convoy ships on the Elbe, today in the Museum of Hamburg History

The Deichtor in 1700. The Leopoldus Primus building site was near this gate

The Admiralty Shipyard was the shipbuilding site of the Hamburg Admiralty.

The Hamburg Admiralty was established in 1623, it owned water plots that could be used to build shipbuilding sites. It was one of their tasks to provide suitable shipyard sites to master shipbuilders in Hamburg. These shipyard properties were then leased to the shipbuilders on a temporary basis.

The Admiralty Shipyard had only built two ships. The Leopoldus Primus (1668) was the first Hamburg convoy ship and the Wapen von Hamburg , the first to bear this name. They were built to accompany Hamburg merchant ships in convoy and to protect them from raids by pirates and privateers .

See also

• Convoy shipping
• Leopoldus Primus
• Wapen of Hamburg (I)
• Wapen of Hamburg (II)
• Wapen of Hamburg (III)
• Wapen of Hamburg (IV)
• Admiralty of Hamburg

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• NN: 100 years of shipping, shipbuilding, port . Schiffahrtsverlag Hansa, Hamburg 1964.
• Verg, Erik; Verg, Martin: The adventure that is called Hamburg . 4th edition, Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2007.