Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij
The Dutch shipyard Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij NV ( RDM ) existed from 1902 to 1996. The Rotterdam company operated shipbuilding and mechanical engineering with a focus on ship repairs. 'Droogdok' is the Dutch term for dry dock ; NV see Naamloze vennootschap (name for a stock corporation (AG) under Dutch law); Maatschappij is the nl. Term for 'company', 'society'.
history
The roots of the RDM go back to the Maatschappij "De Maas" shipyard founded in 1856 by the Scottish shipbuilder Duncan Christie in Rotterdam's Delfshaven (now a museum harbor) . At the beginning of the 20th century the place at Delfshaven had to be cleared and on January 23, 1902 the Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij was founded in Heijplaat on the south bank of the Meuse .
Initially, the company focused on ship repairs; In 1905 the first new building contract was accepted. On January 14, 1925, the Scheepsbouw Maatschappij Nieuwe Waterweg , founded in 1914 on the opposite north bank in Schiedam , was taken over ; this was continued as an independent company. The RDM kept this arrangement with two company headquarters until the closure of the company on Nieuwe Waterweg in 1978. In 1938, RDM and the neighboring shipyard Wilton-Fijenoord acquired the competitor Machinefabriek en Scheepswerf van P. Smit Jr. from the Rotterdam businessman DG van Beuningen. This shipyard was also continued as an independent company.
On March 4, 1966, the RDM merged with the shipyard Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde (KMS) and the Motorenfabriek Thomassen to form the Rijn-Schelde Machinefabrieken en Scheepswerven (RSMS). Under pressure from the government, Verolme Verenigde Scheepswerven (VVSW) from Rotterdam , which had got into financial difficulties, joined the group on January 1, 1971, which then traded as Rijn-Schelde-Verolme Machinefabrieken en Scheepswerven (RSV).
In the 1970s and 1980s, the company built 21 reactor pressure vessels . In August 2012 it became known that cracks had been discovered in the reactor pressure vessel of a reactor at the Doel nuclear power plant (Belgium, near Antwerp). An article in the French daily Le Monde on August 8, 2012 made this known.
Other containers manufactured include Ringhals 2 (Sweden) , Borssele nuclear power plant (Netherlands) and Leibstadt nuclear power plant and Mühleberg nuclear power plant (both in Switzerland).
On April 6, 1983, RSV and with it the RDM went bankrupt. After further start-ups and bankruptcies of successor companies, the shipyard was finally taken over by the Gemeente Rotterdam . The RDM campus of the Hogeschool Rotterdam has been on the site since February 2009 .
Reactor pressure vessel
- Dodewaard nuclear power plant (Netherlands, closed in 1997)
- Borssele nuclear power plant (Netherlands, active)
- Santa María de Garoña nuclear power plant (Spain, closed in 2012)
- Cofrentes nuclear power plant (Spain, active), similar to the
- Leibstadt NPP (Switzerland, active)
- Mühlberg NPP (Switzerland, decommissioned since 12/2019)
- Ringhals 2 (Sweden, closed in 2019)
- USA: Catawba-1 , McGuire-2 , North Anna-1 & 2 , Quad Cities-2 (partially), Sequoyah 1 & 2 , Surry-1 , Surry-2, Watts Bar-1 nuclear power plants
The reactor pressure vessels from Brunsbüttel (closed) and Philippsburg 1 (closed) were built by RDM, but with steel from a different supplier (Japan Steel Works) than the RPVs from Tihange-2 and Doel-3, which are interspersed with hydrogen flakes.
Well-known ships of the shipyard (selection)
| Build number | Surname | Construction year | Ship type | Client |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 138 | Simon Bolivar | 1927 | Passenger ship | Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij |
| 200 | Nieuw Amsterdam | 1938 | Passenger ship | Holland America Lijn |
| 222 | Tero | 1949 | General cargo ship | Maatschappij Vrachtvaart |
| 242 | Krischan the Great | 1941 | Flak carrier | German Air Force |
| 269 | Ampenan | 1951 | General cargo ship | Koninklijke Rotterdamsche Lloyd |
| 279 | Arca | 1959 | Oil tankers | Shell tankers |
| 284 | Van Linschoten | 1953 | General cargo ship | Nederlandsche Tank- en Paketvaart Maatschappij |
| 285 | Katelysia | 1954 | Oil tankers | Shell tankers |
| 287 | Westertoren | 1954 | Oil tankers | Nederlandsche Tank- en Paketvaart Maatschappij |
| 289 | Kabylia | 1955 | Oil tankers | Shell tankers |
| 294 | Maas Lloyd | 1956 | General cargo ship | Koninklijke Rotterdamsche Lloyd |
| 299 | Onoba | 1962 | Oil tankers | Shell tankers |
| 300 | Rotterdam | 1959 | Passenger ship | Holland America Lijn |
| 330 | Sea-Land McLean | 1972 | Container Ship | Sea-Land Corporation |
| 331 | Sea-Land Exchange | 1973 | Container Ship | Sea-Land Corporation |
| 332 | Sea-Land Resource | 1973 | Container Ship | Sea-Land Corporation |
Web links
- RDM at nedships (English)
- RDM at buurtatlas (Dutch)
- RDM at shipmotions (Dutch)
- Early documents and newspaper articles on Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
swell
- ↑ Belgique: la fiabilité de deux réacteurs nucléaires remise en cause
- ↑ a b spiegel.de November 16, 2012: German nuclear power plants free from Belgian disease
Coordinates: 51 ° 53 ′ 47.8 " N , 4 ° 25 ′ 14.4" E