August Pahl shipyard

The shipyard August Pahl was named after its founder shipyard in Hamburg .

Foundation (1897)

August Pahl founded a shipyard in Hamburg-Finkenwerder in 1897 on the premises of JC Wriede , where he mainly built barges and motor boats . Due to the lack of expansion possibilities, the company moved to a larger site on Köhlfleet in 1910.

Fire Department IV, historic fire boat of the Hamburg fire department (Pahlwerft 1930 construction no.152)

Relocation to Köhlfleet (1910)

Until the First World War, mainly motor launchers, a few motor tugs and a barge were built. Rudolf Pahl, who joined the company in 1919, developed a remote control for the drive motor of the boats. This enabled the engine to be operated from the helm.

After the war, in addition to motor launchers and motor tugs, many fire-fighting boats were built, some passenger ships and almost 20 lifeboats for the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People . Several river barges and an inspection barge were delivered for the African fruit company. The largest ships were harbor ferries (200 - 500 GRT) for HADAG . From 1935 the shipyard also built nine Alster ships of the new type.

Extension of the shipyard (1948)

After the Second World War, the shipyard was expanded in order to be able to build larger ships. It began with coasters up to 300 GRT, from 1955 larger freighters such as B. the freighter Cap Castillo and her sister ship Cap Bonavista (4,040 GRT), the Cap Colorado (5850 GRT) and as the last ship of this series the Poeldijk (5,600 GRT).

Bankruptcy (1984)

Due to the great damage caused by the storm surge in 1962, only small ships such as the research ship Friedrich Heincke (370 BRT, construction no. 328) could be built for the Biological Institute Helgoland and sections for other shipyards.

At the end of the sixties and the beginning of the seventies, in addition to various and extensive repair work (e.g. port dredgers, HADAG ferries, hydrofoils, fishing cutters, etc.), orders for Airbus (transport devices for the first Airbus A300), flood protection devices for the port were also received (Sliding gates) or anti-magnetic hulls (marine) processed and created.

In 1984 the bankruptcy led to the end of this Finkenwerder shipyard, which has delivered over 300 newbuildings in these almost 90 years.