Finnboda Varv
Finnboda Varv was a shipyard in Nacka , east of central Stockholm , Sweden .
The shipyard was founded by the iron and shipbuilding company Bergsunds Mekaniska Verkstads in 1878 because the size of the ships that Bergsunds could repair or build at its previous shipyard at Liljeholmsvik, at the western end of Södermalm in Stockholm, through the sluice to Saltsjön , the " Slussen ", was limited. Bergsunds therefore bought the iron and wire works Finnboda on Saltsjön in Nacka on December 31, 1873 and built a shipyard there for considerably larger ships in the following years. The system was initially only intended for repairs, but Bergsunds soon received construction contracts from abroad, especially Russia, and expanded the Finnboda shipyard accordingly. In 1882 the shipyard employed 280 workers, compared to 29 in 1878. The first built in Finnboda ship was in 1882 the cargo steamer Talmud for Ludwig Nobel in St. Petersburg . In the years up to the turn of the century, the Finnboda shipyard developed into one of the largest in Sweden, only surpassed by the Götaverken in Gothenburg . At the end of the 1880s, around 700 men were working at the shipyard. The Swedish Navy was an important client in those early years. Not only gunboats and other smaller ships were built for them, but also the armored ship Thule in 1893 , the ironclad Oden and in 1905/06 the armored cruiser Fylgia .
After the beginning of the First World War , Bergsunds ran into financial difficulties, also because of the war-related impairment in trade and shipping, and in 1916 the Finnboda shipyard was sold to the Stockholms Rederi AB Svea , which became an independent company, AB Finnboda Werft. restructured. The global economic crisis that began in autumn 1929 also affected the profitability of Finnboda, and in 1930 there were considerations to shift the business focus from shipbuilding to other sectors, but this was not carried out. With the introduction of modern welding technology in 1935 came a new boom. The shipyard's first welding hall was built in 1940. Towards the end of the 1950s the slipway was expanded so that ships of up to 13,000 tons could now be built. (However, only one ship of this size was ordered.) The construction of lock gates and bridges helped to utilize the existing production capacities.
When the Svea got into trouble in the late 1960s, she sold Finnboda in 1970 to the Salén shipping company , which already owned the Ekensbergs shipyard in Gröndal (Stockholm). Ekensberg, like Bergsunds, was handicapped by the Slussen to Saltsjön and was closed after the takeover of Finnboda; Machines and personnel were relocated to Finnboda. Salén modernized the shipyard, among other things with the construction of a new welding hall and the enlargement of the slipway, on which ships of up to 35,000 tons could now be built. The workforce numbered about 700 workers.
The 1973 oil crisis also put the Swedish shipyards in dire straits. Finnboda initially survived mainly with ship repairs and also manufactured hulls for drilling platforms . But as early as 1974 Salén was forced to incorporate Finnboda into Götaverken, which Salén had taken over in 1971. Only three years later, in 1977, Götaverken was taken over by the state-owned Svenska Varv , as was the subsidiary Götaverken Finnboda AB. Three 35,000 ton ships were still built at Finnboda, but brought in a loss of 200 million crowns. Finnboda's last newbuilding was launched on June 11, 1981, the 4929-BRT, 6700-ton Nordic Link for the Sea-Link shipping company. The shipyard then remained Sweden's second largest ship repair yard. But when the demand for ship repairs fell sharply from 1990 onwards, the company finally went bankrupt in 1991 and wound up.
Coordinates: 59 ° 18 ′ 56.1 ″ N , 18 ° 7 ′ 28.2 ″ E
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.cargo-vessels-international.at/NORDIC_LINK_IMO7931985.pdf
- ↑ http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1126383