AG Vulcan Stettin
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AG Vulcan Stettin | |
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Fate | Dismantled after World War II |
Founded | 1851 |
Defunct | 1945 |
Location | Stettin, Germany (later Poland) |
Industry | Shipbuilding |
Peak size | ~20,000 employees |
Aktien-Gesellschaft Vulcan Stettin (usually just mentioned as AG Vulcan Stettin or A.G. Vulcan Stettin) was a German shipbuilding and locomotive builder company, located in Stettin (Szczecin). AG Vulcan Stettin played a significant role in both World Wars, building U-boats and warships for the Kaiserliche Marine. The company and shipyard were taken over and scrapped by the Polish government after World War II.
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[edit] History
AG Vulcan Stettin was originally founded as Vulcan Werft in Stettin in 1851 and the shipyard was a pioneer of large-scale shipbuilding and a leading shipyard in Germany until its demise in 1945.
Its first ship was the 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 between 1907 - 1909. In 1928 the company went bankrupt and sold its Hamburg shipyard in 1930, but was refounded as AG Vulcan Stettin.
The shipyard was finally taken over and scrapped by the Polish government after World War II.
[edit] Ships built by AG Vulcan Stettin (selection)
[edit] Civilian ships
- Deutschland (1900)
- Kaiserin Auguste Victoria(1906)
- Konig Wilhelm II (1907)
- SS George Washington (1908)
- Imperator(1913)
[edit] Naval ships
[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 (1915)
- SMS Rostock (1915)
[edit] Destroyers
- Greek destroyer Niki (1906)
- Greek destroyer Doxa (1906)
- Greek destroyer Aspis (1907)
- Greek destroyer Velos (1907)
- Greek destroyer Nea Gena (1912)
- Greek destroyer Keravnos (1912)
[edit] Submarines (U-boats)
- Type VII-C U-boats (1941), out of six commissioned, only one, U-901 was ever in service.
[edit] Torpedo Boats
- SMS V25 (1914)
- SMS V26 (1914)
- SMS V27 (1914)
- SMS V28 (1914)
- SMS V29 (1914)
- SMS V30 (1914)
- SMS V43 (1915)
- SMS V44 (1915)
- SMS V45 (1915)
- SMS V46 (1915)
- SMS V47 (1915)
- SMS V48 (1915)
- SMS V45 (1915)
- SMS V46 (1915)
- SMS V48 (1915)
- SMS V67 (1915)
- SMS V68 (1915)
- SMS V69 (1916)
- SMS V70 (1916)
- SMS V71 (1916)
- SMS V72 (1916)
- SMS V73 (1916)
- SMS V74 (1916)
- SMS V75 (1916)
- SMS V76 (1916)
- SMS V77 (1916)
- SMS V78 (1916)
- SMS V79 (1916)
- SMS V80 (1916)
- SMS V81 (1916)
- SMS V82 (1916)
- SMS V83 (1916)
- SMS V84 (1916)
- SMS V116 (1918)