Vulkanwerft (Hamburg)

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Construction of the emperor in the dock of the volcano shipyard, 1912
Map from 1910 (detail):
The Vulcan shipyard between the old coal ship port (the later Vulcan port) and Rosshafen

The Vulkan shipyard as a Hamburg subsidiary of the Stettiner Maschinenbau Actien-Gesellschaft Vulcan was opened in 1909. In 1930 the Kiel Howaldtswerke (from 1968 Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft - HDW) took over the operation. In 1986 the HDW sold their Hamburg plant Ross to Blohm + Voss , who closed the shipyard the following year.

history

The operation was in 1905 as a subsidiary of Szczecin engineering Actien Society Vulcan under the name AG Vulcan Hamburg established (from around 1913 the spelling was Vul k to be used). In contrast to the geological name volcano , the name of the shipyard is emphasized on the first syllable ([ ˈvʊlkan ]). It is derived from Vulcanus , the Roman god of fire and blacksmithing.

Work on the Rosshafen in Hamburg-Steinwerder began in 1907 and in June 1909 Kaiser Wilhelm II personally inaugurated the new shipyard.

According to the Third Köhlbrand Treaty in 1908 , the Elbarm of the Köhlbrand was relocated to the west. Its old course became the coal ship port and the former coal ship port became the shipyard's port of equipment as a volcanic port . At the beginning there were two helges , on which from 1910 the first two newbuildings were built with the passenger ship Imperator and the liner SMS Friedrich der Große . There were also two floating docks.

In 1911 Hamburg became the headquarters of the Vulcan shipyard group, which also resulted in a change of name to Vulcan-Werke Hamburg and Stettin Actiengesellschaft . In 1914, AG Vulkan Hamburg was the second largest shipyard in Hamburg after Blohm & Voss with 4,300 employees . During the First World War , the shipyard specialized in submarine construction. Between 1915 and 1918, 68 submarines were completed.

In 1928 the Vulkan shipyard became part of Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG (Deschimag), which it sold on to Howaldtswerke in Kiel in 1930 . Together with the acquired out of bankruptcy neighboring shipyard Janssen & Schmilinsky arose from the volcano shipyard Howaldtswerke AG Kiel, Department formerly Vulcan , from 1937 following the sale of the shares of the total Howaldtswerft to the state German plants and the relocation of the headquarters to Hamburg 1939 Howaldtswerke Hamburg AG became.

Ships built by AG Vulkan Hamburg (selection)

  • 1911/1912, (Stettiner) building no.310, ship of the line SMS Friedrich der Große of the Kaiser class for the Imperial Navy , from 1912 to 1916 naval flagship, 1916 participation in the Skagerrakschlacht , 1919 self-sunk in Scapa Flow , 1936 lifted and scrapped
  • 1912/14, building no. 325 or building no. 4 of the Hamburg shipyard, large-line ship SMS Großer Kurfürst
  • 1912/1913, building no.314 or building no.3, express steamer Imperator for HAPAG . The Imperator (HAPAG used the male item at the request of Kaiser Wilhelm II ) was the largest ship in the world with 52,117 GRT at the time, launched in Hamburg in 1914, used in 1919 as the USS Imperator transporter by the US Navy , from 1920 as the RMS Berengaria in service with the Cunard Line , decommissioned in 1938, remnants of the hull broken up in 1946.
  • 1913/1914, building no.334 or building no.5, passenger steamer Cap Trafalgar for the Hamburg-South American Steamship Company ( Hamburg-Süd ), converted into an auxiliary cruiser in 1914, sunk by the British auxiliary cruiser Carmania in the same year off Trinidad
  • 1913/14, building No. 6 (Hamburg list), Greek battleship Salamis , not completed due to the outbreak of war, only demolished in 1932 after long legal disputes
  • 1915 to 1918, construction of a total of 68 UC, UB and UE submarines
  • 1915, construction of 25 torpedo boats for the Imperial Navy
  • 1915–1916, construction of 9 destroyers for the Imperial Navy
  • 1917, Building no. 386 and building no. 19 of the Hamburg shipyard, battleship Württemberg the Bayern class for the Imperial Navy, not completed and canceled in 1921
  • 1922, Combined ship Cap Norte for Hamburg-Süd

See also

Web links

Commons : Vulkanwerft Hamburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • W. Kaemmerer: Report on the new Vulcan shipyard in Hamburg, magazine of the Association of German Engineers, Volume 52, No. 20, April 16, 1908, p. 777ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kiel City Archives: Howaldtswerke ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 23, 2010
  2. ↑ see also under sailor culture , ship names

Coordinates: 53 ° 31 ′ 31 ″  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 1 ″  E