C. Lühring shipyard

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The C. Lühring shipyard was a shipyard in Brake (Unterweser) , which existed from 1870 to 1988 and delivered around 390 steel ships and 60 wooden ships during this time.

The namesake Conrad Lühring took over the shipyard from the previous operator H. Eylers between 1870 and 1873. Until 1905, sailing ships such as barges , schoonerbriggs , gaff schooners , ewer , tjalken and three-masted schooners were launched there almost exclusively . The ships had a wide range of measurements from 50 to 725  register tons and were all wooden .

Oil collecting ship Bottsand from the C. Lühring shipyard
Eye of the Wind , launched in 1911 as the topsail schooner Friedrich from the shipyard

At the turn of the century, Lühring's sons Hinrich and Friedrich Wilhelm introduced iron shipbuilding , with steam engines and diesel engines supplementing the sails. The forward tug , which was delivered around 1900 and only powered by steam , was initially an exception. From 1907 several steam loggers with a measurement of 140  GRT were delivered to the Braker herring fishery , from 1911 several motor loggers to the same company, and later to the Bremen-Vegesack fishing company . A total of 33 herring loggers were built , eight of them sail , six steam and nineteen motor loggers. Motor schooners were also part of the construction program at this time; from the 1930s onwards they were increasingly replaced by coastal freighters up to 250 GRT and larger freighters up to 500 GRT.

During the Second World War, ferries , food trucks and boats were built for the Wilhelmshaven naval shipyard. From 1948 onwards, freighters up to 500 GRT were mainly delivered to many different shipowners, mainly from northern Germany and the Scandinavian countries, but there were also exotic ships such as aircraft transporters, salt transport ships and banana lighters.

In 1956 the shipyard expanded by taking over the grounds of Strenge & Sohn , which had been lying idle since 1925.

Small ferries and passenger ships were also occasionally built. The tanker Ekfors, delivered in 1975, with around 4,200 GRT was one of the largest ships. The oil collecting ships Thor as well as Bottsand and Eversand , which were built at the shipyard in the 1980s, became known.

In 1988 the shipyard had to close.

In 2017 the Elsflether shipyard leased the site with the plan to set up a branch. In February 2020, the site was sold to the company Hermann Maschinenbautechnologie, based in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate , which intends to use it for the hydraulic steel construction business area .

Ships of the shipyard

The following list is an incomplete selection of the ships built by C. Lühring:

literature

  • H. Karting: History of the Lühring shipyard in Hammelwarden and the sailing ships built there . Hauschild, Bremen 1993
  • H. Karting: From wood to steel (1860–1909) . Volume I.
  • H. Karting: From the sail to the engine (1910–1940) . Volume II

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Torsten Wewer: Kurz already dreams of the Gorch Fock. Nordwest-Zeitung , May 13, 2017, accessed on February 28, 2018 .
  2. ^ Josef-Johann Wieder: Weidener buy shipyard on the Weser. Oberpfalz Medien, February 5, 2020, accessed on February 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Tanja Henschel: A special kind of launch , Nordwest-Zeitung, October 7, 2013.