Joh. Thormählen & Co.

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Joh. Thormählen & Co. (also Joh's. Thormählen & Co., Jos. Thormählen & Co. or Johannes Thormählen & Co.) was a shipyard in Elmshorn , Schleswig-Holstein .

history

The shipyard was founded in 1837 by Heinrich Thormählen, who may have taken over a small boatyard that was founded in the 18th century. His son Johannes followed him as owner. The shipyard was located on the south bank of the Krückau in the Elmshorn district of Wisch. She was particularly specialized in the construction of cargo sailors such as ewer and barges , but later also built small steam and motor ships .

In 1909 the shipbuilding engineer Friedrich Schultenkämper bought a share in the shipyard. He was initially a production engineer there, but became the sole owner by 1916 at the latest. He pursued the construction of barges , barges , pontoons and ship hulls for smaller motor and steam ships. In the last years of the First World War , the shipyard partly lived off construction contracts from the Imperial Navy . In 1918 she even received the order for a level minesweeper , the FM 62 , the construction of which was stopped in the summer of 1918 by order of the navy.

The hyperinflation of 1922/23 and the resulting collapse of the German economy was the company's undoing, and in 1925 the shipyard had to close.

Todays use

As early as 1926, the Elmshorn Sailing Association, founded in January 1926, bought the shipyard. Over the years he dug a second harbor basin there and is still based there today. The former residential building of the shipyard serves as a club house.

Coordinates: 53 ° 44 ′ 54 "  N , 9 ° 38 ′ 35"  E

Footnotes

  1. Finksche Werft?
  2. The boat was built as a ferry after the war ( http://german-navy.de/hochseeflotte/ships/minehunters/fm/ships.html )
  3. Web presence of the Elmshorn Sailing Association

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