Nordic Yards Wismar
Coordinates: 53°53′48″N 11°26′11″E / 53.896667°N 11.436389°E
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1951–1990 VEB 1990– GmbH | |
| Industry | Shipbuilding |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Headquarters | Wismar, Germany |
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Fishcutters River cruise ships Passenger ships Cargo ships |
| Owner | Vitaly Yusufov |
Number of employees | 700 |
| Parent | Nordic Yards |
| Website | www.nordicyards.com |
Nordic Yards Wismar (former VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar, Aker MTW Werft, Wadan Yards MTW) is a German shipbuilding company, headquartered in Wismar. Since June 1, 1990 it has been part of the Deutschen Maschinen- und Schiffbau AG (DMS AG)[1] and since 2009 is part of the Nordic Yards Holding GmbH.[2]
History
The ship repair yard was founded by Red Army on April 27, 1946.[3] The Ivan Susanin was the first ship repaired at this yard. The shipyard developed quickly, from Soviet ship repair yard to VVB Schiffsreparaturwerft Wismar, in 1948, renamed to Hochseeschiffbau Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar VEB, in 1951. The first new ship V. Chkalov was built for the Soviet Union as war reparations after World War II on March 30, 1954.
Ships built by Nordic Yards Wismar 2009-present
Container ships
- MS Asterix 2010
Ships built by VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar 1951-1990 (selection)
Folding kayaks
- Typ Kolibri
Cargo ships
- Typ Afrika
- Typ MBC
- Typ OBC
River cruise ships
- V. Chkalov (1954) - Rodina-class motorship for Yenisei Shipping Company
- Korolenko (1954)
- Kavkaz (1958)
Ocean liners/Cruise ships
- Mikhail Kalinin (1958) - scrapped in India 1994
- Feliks Dzerzhinskiy (1958) - sank off Canton, China 1993
- Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze (1959) - scrapped in India 1992
- Bashkiriya (1964) - sank 2006 in Chao Praya River (Bankok, Thailand) as MS Siritara Ocean Queen
- Aleksandr Pushkin (1965) - renamed as MS Marco Polo in 1991 and still in service as a Bahamas-registered ship
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Marco Polo (originally named Aleksandr Pushkin)
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Mikhail Kalinin – the first passenger ship in sea-shipping history returned from Antarctica
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Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze at shipyard on April 9, 1959
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Korolenko as hotelship at Vyborg
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The Russian training ship Gospodin Velikiy Novgorod on the Volkhov River
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Feliks Dzerzhinskiy at the outfitting quay
See also
References
- ↑ VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar(German)
- ↑ Aker MTW Werft GmbH(English)
- ↑ VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar(German)
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