| Industry | Shipbuilding |
|---|---|
| Fate | Dismantled after World War II |
| Founded | 1851 |
| Defunct | 1945 |
| Headquarters | Stettin, Germany (today Poland) |
| Employees | ~20,000 |
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. They also sold blueprints to other nations, among others those for the Russian destroyer Novik and the light cruiser Pamyat Merkuriya (later renamed the Komintern). The company and shipyard were taken over and closed by the Polish government after World War II.
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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. The yard built the Kaiser class ocean liners.
Thus a new shipyard was built in Hamburg between 1907–1909. From 1911, it was named Vulcan-Werke Hamburg und Stettin Actiengesellschaft. The Hamburg yard was the scene of a week long strike in 1918 which was only brought to a close through the reading of the War Clauses.[1] In 1928 the company went bankrupt and sold its Hamburg shipyard in 1930, the AG Vulcan Stettin had been closed.
The shipyard was finally taken over by the Polish government after World War II and a new Szczecin Shipyard was started at this site. The Szczecin Shipyard named one of its wharfs "Wulkan" and two slipways "Wulkan 1" and "Wulkan Nowa".