Lürssen
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Lürssen (or Lürssen Werft) is a German shipbuilder based in Bremen-Vegesack/Lemwerder. Lürssen designs and constructs motoryachts, naval ships and special vessels. Trading as Lürssen Yachts, it is one of the leading builders of custom superyachts such as Paul Allen's Octopus and Larry Ellison's Rising Sun, the largest privately owned yacht in the world.
Naval ships built by Lürssen include:
- Many E boats of World War II
- Jaguar class fast attack craft
- Seeadler class fast attack craft
- Zobel class fast attack craft
- Tiger class fast attack craft
- Frankenthal class mine hunter
- Kılıç class fast attack missile corvette
Lürssen is currently also involved with the building of Braunschweig class corvettes and is part of the ARGE F125 joint-venture designing the F125 class frigate.
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[edit] Yachts
 Octopus |
 Rising Sun |
 Pelorus |
[edit] Naval ships
 Jaguar class |
 Frankenthal class |
 Kılıç class |
Lursen-S was the name of a Soviet counter-espionage operation of the late 1940s/early 1950s that infiltrated and compromised Operation Jungle, an MI6 program that used Lürssen E-boats to insert British-trained Baltic agents into the Soviet Union.
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