Janssen & Schmilinsky

The Fairplay IX was launched at Janssen & Schmilinsky in 1910

Shipyard badge of the tugboat Caroline (hull number 402)

Advertisement for the Janssen & Schmilinsky shipyard in the trade journal Hansa from 1913

Janssen & Schmilinsky was a shipyard and engineering factory in Hamburg-Steinwerder , which existed from 1858 to 1929. Around 1900 it was one of the largest shipbuilding companies in the Port of Hamburg .

history

Janssen & Schmilinsky was founded in 1858 by shipbuilders JC Janssen and JF Schmilinsky on the southern side of the Elbe on Schanzenweg in Steinwerder. The site is now part of Blohm + Voss . It was the first shipyard in Hamburg to exclusively build iron ships, specializing in the conversion of cargo and passenger ships, initially in particular for inland shipping , later also for deep-sea fishing and coastal shipping . At the site Schanzenweg the shipyard had two slipway of 45 meters in length and three smaller slipways of up to 28 meters in length and two slipways . Around 1890 it was converted to a stock corporation, traded under the name Schiffswerfte & Maschinenfabrik AG and was one of the eight largest shipyards in Hamburg. Around 500 ships were built by 1914.

In 1917 the company built a second shipyard at Tollerort across from the imperial ports . Blohm & Voss had expressed interest in the area on Schanzenweg because of the planned construction of a submarine harbor . Due to the looming defeat of Germany in the First World War , these plans were not implemented and the site was only taken over a few years later. Systems for larger ships were installed at the new shipyard at Tollerort, including a dock about 100 meters in length that could accommodate ships up to about 3500 tons, as well as two electric slip systems for ships up to 75 meters in length and 1300 tons.

During the global economic crisis at the end of the 1920s, Schiffswerfte & Maschinenfabrik AG, formerly Janssen & Schmilinsky , went bankrupt . The operation at Tollerort was taken over by Howaldtswerke Kiel on January 1st, 1929 and continued under the name Howaldtswerke AG, Kiel, department formerly Janssen & Schmilinsky . Together with the neighboring site of the former Vulkan shipyard at Rosshafen, bought by Howaldtswerke in 1930, the Howaldtswerft Hamburg was created .

Shipbuilding

• Fairplay , built in 1895, the first port tug of the Fairplay shipping company under this name, followed in 1897 by Fairplay II and III , 1899 Fairplay IV , 1901 Fairplay VI , 1910 Fairplay IX , 1911 Fairplay X , 1912 Fairplay XI , 1922 Fairplay XIV and 1923 Fairplay XV .
• Duke Friedrich , built in 1901 and initially deployed on the Schlei , later used for military purposes, sunk in the Second World War, then lifted and repaired, now used as Viktoria on Hamburg harbor tours .
• Schaarhörn , direction finding and traveling steamer, built in 1908, until 1914 the representative steamer of the Hamburg Senate, now restored to working order, berthed in Hamburg at the Elbstrasse jetty
• Alexandra , saloon steamer, built in 1908, today an excursion boat in the port of Flensburg ( Schiffbrücke 22)
• Tiger , tugboat, put into service in 1910, preserved in working order in the Hamburg museum harbor Oevelgönne .
• Trumao , cargo steamer during the 1891 Civil War in Chile .
• Harbor tug Crocus , built in 1898, preserved as a sports boat Wiking in Hamburg
• Salon steamer Nordfriesland , commissioned in 1927 for the Wyker Dampfschiffs-Reederei and canceled in 1967 in Holland.

See also

• Shipyards in Hamburg

Web links

Commons : Janssen & Schmilinsky  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• First location of the shipyard on Schanzenweg next to Blohm & Voss, on an Orfix city map from 1928
• Janssen & Schmilinsky on Tollerort am Vulkanhafen, also on an Orfix city map from 1928
• Janssen & Schmilinsky

Individual evidence

1. ^ Arnold Kludas , Dieter Maass, Susanne Sabisch: Port of Hamburg. The history of the Hamburg free port from its beginnings to the present , Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-8225-0089-5 , p. 354
2. ^ Albert Gieseler: Shipyards and machine works (formerly Janssen & Schmilinsky) Akt.-Ges. , accessed August 18, 2012
3. ^ Arnold Kludas, Dieter Maass, Susanne Sabisch: Port of Hamburg. The history of the Hamburg free port from its beginnings to the present , Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-8225-0089-5 , p. 348
4. ^ Homepage of the steam ship Schaarhörn , accessed on April 18, 2009
5. ↑ Entry at armada.cl ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish)