Moss Verft

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Moss Verft, 1902

The Moss Verft was a shipbuilding company on the island Jeløya at Moss on Oslofjord in Norway . It was founded in 1870 under the name J. & JH. Vogt, Moss Skibsværft , but was commonly referred to as Vogteværven . The name was later changed to Moss Værft, then Moss Værft & Dokk and finally Moss Verft. The company closed in 1987.

history

1870-1940

In 1870 the twins Johan and Jørgen Hermann Vogt took over a small boat repair shop founded in 1860 by the merchant NW Grønn. The first new build, the schooner Lyn , was delivered as early as the next year . The business expanded and was very busy until the late 1880s. Then it became difficult to continue to work profitably, and in 1889 both Vogteværven and the nearby Erichsverven were taken over by Moss Værft GmbH and merged. From 1890 this was the only shipyard still in existence in Moss. In February 1898, the previous shareholders converted their company into the Moss Værft joint stock company. In the years 1914 to 1920 the shipyard had around 500 employees. From 1921, however, began to decline, and in 1927 Moss Værft AG was liquidated, but revived under the new name Moss Værft & Dokk that same year. The first chairman of the board of directors was the industrialist Ferdinand Anker . The shipyard again reached a respectable size and built sailing, steam and motor ships over time.

1940-1945

During the German occupation of Norway in the Second World War from 1940 to 1945, the shipyard was used by the occupation authorities primarily to convert whaling boats and fishing cutters into armed outpost and security boats. After the end of the war, Ferdinand Anker was accused of treason in 1946 , as well as for supplying the occupiers with essential raw materials such as iron and tin, employing slave labor and other alleged offenses, and was finally convicted of cooperating with the enemy. Moss Værft & Dokk as such was also involved in this affair: in 1950, the former board members of the shipyard of the shipping company Sobral were accused in a court case of having failed to fulfill their contractual obligations with regard to the construction of two ships, as they instead relied on had concentrated the delivery of armed whalers to the Navy.

1945-1987

After the war, the shipyard built freighters , tankers , bulk carriers , salvage ships and whalers . She was best known for her gas and chemical tankers, of which she delivered a total of 50. From 1945 to 1986 the Moss shipyard built 84 ships. In 1961 it was taken over by the Kværner Brug concern , and when Kværner also took over Rosenberg Verft in Stavanger in 1970 , the two operations were merged to form Moss-Rosenberg Verft. The Moss shipyard was the largest employer in Moss in the 1970s: in 1975 it had 1,068 employees.

From 1971 the shipyard introduced gas tankers in the Moss system (later Moss-Rosenberg system), a construction principle with spherical tanks that is still used today.

The general shipyard crisis of the 1970s and 1980s did not spare the Moss shipyard either. The last ship built there was a railway ferry for the Swedish State Railways Statens Järnvägar in 1986 , and operations ceased in 1987. In 2000, the owners' association of the former shipyard sold the site to Jeløy Strandpark ANS. Today there are residential buildings and smaller industrial companies.

literature

  • LJ Vogt: AS Moss Vaerft: 1898-1927 . (Skibsbygging i Moss, Volume 2). AS Moss Vaerft Dokk's Histoire, self-published, Moss 1945

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Anker fikk 1 års lengsel and 3 millioners bot . In: Verdens Gang , September 24, 1946, p. 1 (Norwegian)
  2. ↑ Repatriation Krav på 7 mill kroner mot Moss Værft & Dokk . In: Verdens Gang , February 20, 1950, p. 1 (Norwegian). Millionsak i Lagmannsretten . In: Verdens Gang , February 16, 1954, p. 10 (Norwegian).
  3. ↑ fundinguniverse.com
  4. ↑ snl.no
  5. ^ Key Technologies of Mitsubishi LNG Carriers - Present and Future . (PDF; 62 kB; English)