Stettiner Vulcan AG

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Stettiner Vulcan AG was a German shipyard.

Contents 1 History 2 Ships from Vulcan 2.1 Civilian ships 2.2 Battleships 2.3 Cruisers 3 Destroyers 4 U-boats

[edit] History

Originally founded as Vulcan Werft in Stettin, 1851, the shipyard was a pioneer of large-scale shipbuilding and a leading shipyard in Germany until its demise in 1945.

Its first ship was an iron steamer Dievenow. In 1857 the shipyard was renamed Stettiner Maschinenbau AG Vulcan, and as larger and larger ships were built, the facilities in Stettin could no longer sustain the scale of the operations.

Thus new facilities were built in Hamburg and Bremen, 1907-1909. In 1928 the company went bankrupt, sold its Hamburg shipyard in 1930, but was refounded as Stettiner Vulcan AG.

The shipyard was taken over and scrapped by the Polish government after World War II.

[edit] Ships from Vulcan

[edit] Civilian ships

• Deutschland (1900) [1]
• SS George Washington (1908)

[edit] Battleships

• Dingyuan (1881)
• Zhenyuan (1882)
• SMS Brandenburg (1890)
• SMS Weissenburg (1890)
• SMS Mecklenburg (1900)
• SMS Preußen (1902)
• SMS Pommern (1904)
• SMS Rheinland (1907)
• SMS Friedrich der Große (1910)
• SMS Großer Kurfürst (1911)
• SMS Württemberg (1915)

[edit] Cruisers

• SMS Hamburg (1902)
• SMS Lübeck (1903)
• SMS Stettin (1906)
• SMS Mainz (1908)
• SMS Breslau (1910)
• SMS Wiesbaden (1913)
• SMS Brummer (1915)
• SMS Bremse (1915)
• SMS Wiesbaden II (1915)
• SMS Rostock II (1915)

[edit] Destroyers

• Greek destroyer Niki (1906)
• Greek destroyer Doxa (1906)
• Greek destroyer Aspis (1907)
• Greek destroyer Velos (1907)

[edit] U-boats

• Type VII-C U-boats (1941), out of six commissioned, only one, Unterseeboot 901 was ever in service