Büsumer shipyard
| Büsumer Werft GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1902 |
| resolution | 1986 |
| Reason for dissolution | insolvency |
| Seat | Büsum |
| Branch | shipbuilding |
The Büsumer Werft was a shipyard in Büsum that existed until 1986 .
history
Founding time
In 1895, the Büsum cutter fishermen used twelve boats to catch crabs. For external repairs to the hull or for tarring, they could be " dried out " in the mud flats . The first step towards the later Büsum shipyard was a first slipway built in 1902 by the Büsumer fishing association (founded in 1898) on what was later to become the barrel yard, on which major repairs could be carried out until 1925. The ship's carpenter Hermann Albers from Deichhausen leased the facility and built a slipway at his own expense . Repairs were made with the slipway and work boats and fishing trawlers without motor were built on the slipway, and from 1911 also with motor. In 1914 an engine workshop was built.
Krämer, Vagt & Beckmann
In 1921 Albers sold the shipyard to the aircraft technicians Krämer and Vagts, who could no longer work in their profession due to the ban on aircraft construction. The boat building had similarities to the aircraft and therefore was an alternative. The ship's carpenter Beckmann was added and in 1921 the shipyard was registered under Krämer, Vagt & Beckmann. The first order was the Seehund fishing cutter , which was then delivered to Julius Numsen. More ships followed, the launching from the slipway was difficult due to the narrow harbor basin and the ships had to be braked heavily when they were going. When the New Harbor was built, the "New Island" was connected to the mainland by a wooden bridge in 1922. Now there was enough space available for a new shipyard.
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In 1926 the company moved to the new site, on which a large shipbuilding hall and necessary auxiliary buildings were built. The old shipyard was demolished in 1927 and taken over by the barrel yard. In the same year the shipyard celebrated its 25th anniversary and received the interesting order from Günther Plüschow to build the expedition ship Tierra del Fuego . The baptismal address on October 11, 1927 was given by Dr. Karl Ullstein from Berlin.
In 1929 the shipyard was converted into a GmbH. As of this year, there were no more new construction orders due to the global economic crisis . The company was offered for sale in vain and in June 1930 bankruptcy proceedings were opened against the Krämer & Vagt GmbH shipyard.
From July 1930 until the foreclosure auction in 1932, the ship carpenters Albers, Mahnsen and Gerlach leased the shipyard and used it as a repair shop.
The engineer Kohn, who came from Lauenburg , bought the Büsum shipyard at auction on July 2, 1932 for 3,000 marks and reopened it on September 3, 1932. Kohn delivered two fishing trawlers each in 1933 and 1934, but otherwise only worked in the repair business. Since he did not receive any further newbuilding orders, he looked for a buyer for the shipyard.
Büsumer shipyard W. & E. Sielaff
On March 15, 1936, the Hamburg shipbuilder Wilhelm Sielaff, whose wife Emmi came from Büsum, acquired the Büsum shipyard for 7,000 marks. He was known for building high-quality kayaks and sports boats , but was unable to expand his business in Hamburg and had decided to move to Büsum. Sielaff had work on the Büsum shipyard resumed on April 1, 1936 and set up a cross slip system in the same year. From the summer of 1937, fishing trawlers were built again. In the following year, among other things, a police boat and a motor boat for the Air Force were built. With the outbreak of the Second World War , civil shipbuilding was largely discontinued, instead torpedo transport barges and submarine towers were mass-produced.
The shipyard delivered a total of five wooden fishing cutters as the first post-war buildings in 1945 and 1946, and the first three steel cutters followed a year later. At the same time, the company also produced burning witches . At the end of 1949, the shipyard put the Gretchen Vollmers ( hull number 152), its first coaster (Kümo), on Kiel. This Weselmann-Kümo was launched on April 15, 1950 and was delivered to M. Vollmers shipping company in Uetersen on June 15, 1950 . In the early 1950s, two to four vehicles were built a year. The main focus of construction was on fishing ships , Kümos and a few special buildings. In 1957/58 the shipyard relocated to an operating site in the newly developed port expansion area in the east of Büsum. The topping-out ceremony there took place on December 5, 1957. Up to this point in time, 26 Kümos had been created by W. & E. Sielaff.
The first cargo ship over 1000 tdw , the Graeko , was delivered in July 1961. Overall, the company ran at full capacity. However, the great demand of many German shipowners for new buildings was largely met. There was now fierce competition among the shipyards for new ships. Since the expansion of the shipyard cost a lot of money and too few reserves were built up, the shipyard ran into serious difficulties with short-time working in the winter months. Even bankruptcy did not seem impossible. Since the Sielaffs had no direct descendants, the shipyard was sold.
Büsumer Werft GmbH, Alnwick Harmstorf
The Hamburg shipowner and shipyard owner Alnwick Harmstorf took over the Büsumer shipyard W. & E. Sielaff on October 1, 1963 and integrated it into the Harmstorf Group . At the time of the takeover, the Büsumer shipyard W. & E. Sielaff had 95 employees and there were no major orders in the order book. The Rugia , the last major order, was delivered on November 29, 1963. The next order for the construction of the coastal tanker Yorksand came from the shipping company A. F. Harmstorf & Co., based in Hamburg-Altona . This construction turned out to be more difficult than expected. The problems were solved with the help of the Schlichting shipyard and the 1135 tdw tanker with construction number 215 was delivered in July 1964.
The shipyard was restructured by the new owner Harmstorf in the following years, the project department, construction department, acquisition department and the purchasing department were relocated to Schlichting shipyard. The production was expanded to a modern standard, used and new cranes and machines from the Schlieker-Werft , AG Weser and Schlichting-Werft supplemented the previous equipment. They even built shipyard apartments for employees. By the end of 1963, the workforce had increased to 135 people.
Bankruptcy and successor companies
In 1982, the shipyard Buesumer received a new, built from the Schlichting-Werft and mainly for repairs for ships up to 10,000 dwt been deliberate Floating with 110 m length and 5,000 tons of carrying capacity . Because it was too wide, it was towed through the lock in two parts and then welded together. In the meantime, the shipyard crisis paralyzed German shipbuilding. The parent company tried to bridge the order valley with orders for its own and affiliated shipping companies, which did not succeed in the long run. In September 1986 the Harmstorf Group went bankrupt. The Büsum shipyard also closed its doors on September 30, 1986.
As early as 1982, Reimer Landberg began operating a ship repair and conversion yard on the old site of the Büsum shipyard. In March 1987, Timm Metall- und Schweisstechnik attempted a fresh start at the Büsumer shipyard, and from April 1995 it operated as Büsumer Werke Metallbau GmbH , but later also failed.
Special shipbuilding
The production program shifted from fishing ships and Kümos to special shipbuilding. Ro-ro ships , product tankers , container ships , heavy lift ships , even chemical tankers and especially refrigerated ships filled the delivery lists for the following years. In 1966 the Steinberg (1,165 GRT) was the first container ship and in 1967 the Arcturus (499 GRT) was the shipyard's first Ro / Ro ship. The shipyard was fully occupied and expanded, new buildings for workshops, the warehouse and for the construction supervision of the shipping companies were built. The workforce increased to 380 men. The shortage of skilled workers slowed further expansion, so workers from abroad were recruited. The ships delivered became larger and the limits of the slipway and the lock were reached in 1973 with ships of around 4,000 tdw. A new slipway was soon built, the 13.7 m wide sea lock was now too small. The state government initially rejected an expansion or a new building, only later, in 1977 construction began. In 1982 the new lock was finally inaugurated.
Ships built (selection)
Coastal tanker Yorksand
The coastal tanker Yorksand (construction no. 215) was the first ship from Büsumer Werft GmbH. With a measurement of 499 GRT, it had a carrying capacity of 1135 tdw at 61.9 m length, 10 m width and 3.7 m draft. A supercharged 4-cylinder engine from MAK with 735 kW at 375 rpm gave the ship a speed of 11.5 knots. Three diesel generators, two with 35 kW and one with 25 kW, supplied the on-board electrical system and two charge oil pumps with 150 m³ / h each were available for cargo handling. The ship was set up for a crew of 13.
Reefer Rungholtsand
The refrigerated ship Rungholtsand (construction no. 276) was built in 1979 and, at 95 m length, 13.75 m width and 4.65 m draft, had a carrying capacity of 3,415 tdw. A MAK engine with 2200 kW (3000 hp) at 600 / min allowed the ship a speed of 15 knots. Two auxiliary diesel engines with 485 kW (660 hp) and a shaft generator with 500 kW were used to supply the on-board electrical system. The cooling capacity was 130,000 cubic feet , and cargo could be transported in a temperature range of +12 ° C to −29 ° C. The four holds, each with 3 tween decks, could be divided into a total of 15 compartments. The ship had facilities for a crew of 15.
Web links
- Dieter Andreas Sattler, information on the history of the Büsum shipyard as well as construction lists and photos ( memento from March 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Sources and literature
- Different volumes of the trade journals Hansa and Schiff & Hafen
- Hochhaus, K.-H .: Deutsche Kühlschiffahrt , Hausschild Verlag, Bremen, 1996
- Detlefsen, Gert Uwe: From the Ewer to the container ship . The development of the German coasters. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1983, ISBN 3-7822-0321-6 .