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Nylands mekaniske sold in Oslo in 1961

Nylands mekaniske verksted was a Norwegian shipyard in Christiania on Grønlandsleiret. In addition to steam ships and steam engines , steam locomotives were also manufactured.

history

Nylands mekaniske verksted was founded in 1854 by Jacob Smith Jarmann and the engineer Prosper Nørbech. From 1857 the workshop moved to the mouth of the Akerselva in Bjørvika , where a large factory building was built on the western bank of the river by 1860. The workshop was operated on this property in Oslo until 1971.

With hull number 4, the world's first special whaling boat was delivered in 1864 . Half of Norway's steamship fleet until 1870 was owned by either Nyland or Akers mek. Verksted built about 50 ships in total. Jarmann retired from the business in 1878.

Nylands mekaniske verksted went bankrupt on April 5, 1879. On May 24, 1881, a new establishment took place as Nylands Verksted .

Around 1900 Nyland was the largest shipyard in Norway with over 1,000 employees. There were two floating docks . Statistisk Sentralbyrå ( German  Central Statistical Office ) had 689 employees at Nylands Verksted and 663 employees at Akers mek in 1909 . Verksted .

After 1950 the ships got bigger and bigger and their construction had to be carried out more efficiently. The more than 100 year old production facilities in Bjørvika became too small.

In 1956 Nyland was acquired through the acquisition of the majority of shares from A / S Akers mek. Verksted was taken over and later merged with this (today STX Europe ). Before the merger, the shipyard had built over 350 ships, as well as numerous industrial machines and railroad cars. Of the ships, over 100 were whaling boats and 50 were passenger ships.

In 1967 the Akers factories in Pipervika and Nyland in Bjørvika were put under joint management and the two production sites were named Nyland Vest and Nyland Øst . The old Nylands workshop (Nyland Øst) was closed in 1971. Nylands Verksted was then from 1971 to 1982 the name for Akers verft in Pipervika.

The Oslo Opera House opened on the former factory site in 2008 .

Shipbuilding at Nylands Mekaniske Verksted

No. Delivered Surname Type tonnage Shipping company home port comment
1 1861 Engebret Soot Passenger ship 30 GRT Fredrikshalds saugbrugsforening Heaps Museum ship
4th 1864 Spes & Fides Whaling boat 86 GRT Svend Foyn Tonsberg
11 1866 Hansteen Research ship 114 GRT Norges geografiske oppmåling Trondheim Museum ship
65 1887 Tourists Passenger ship 76.41 GRT Fredrikshalds-Vasdragets Dambskibsselskab Heaps Museum ship
342 1939 KNM Otra Minesweeper 361 GRT Norwegian Navy - Used by the German navy in World War II
343 1939 KNM Rauma Minesweeper 361 GRT Norwegian Navy - Used by the German navy in World War II
374 1950 Sandnes Passenger ship 1534 GRT Sandnæs Dampskibs-Aktieselskab Sandnes Museum ship
376 1954 Lionne Cargo ship 2207 GRT A. Poppy Oslo
398 1965 KNM Sleipner corvette 780 GRT Norwegian Navy -

Pictures of the ships

  • Vikingen (1865)

  • Tourists (1887)

  • Tromøsund (1928)

  • Sandnes (1950)

Locomotive construction at Nylands Mekaniske Verksted

Build number Delivered model series Wheel alignment society Remarks
7th 1896 NHJ D No. 84 B. Norsk Hoved-Jernbane taken over by NSB , retired on July 4, 1962
8th 1898 NHJ D No. 89 B. Norsk Hoved-Jernbane taken over by NSB, retired on April 14, 1954

Web links

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Coordinates: 59 ° 54 '  N , 10 ° 45'  E