Lürssen

Lürssen GmbH

Type	GmbH
Industry	Shipbuilding
Founded	1875
Founder	Friedrich Lürssen
Headquarters	Bremen-Vegesack, Germany
Products	Yachts Naval ships
Divisions	Fr. Lürssen Werft Lürssen Logistics Lürssen Yachts Lürssen Schacht-Audorf (Rendsburg) Lürssen Berne-Bardenfleth
Slogan	"My firm shall be known as the leader in both quality and performance." (Friedrich Lürssen, 1875)
Website	www.lurssen.com

Lürssen (or Lürssen Werft) is a German shipbuilding company based in Bremen-Vegesack.

Plant in Lemwerder

Plant in Schacht-Audorf (Rendsburg)

Lürssen designs and constructs yachts, 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, David Geffen's Rising Sun, and Azzam, the largest private yacht in the world at 180m in length.^[1]

Naval ships built by Lürssen include:

Many E boats of World War II, based on Lürssen's design for Otto Hermann Kahn's private yacht Oheka II
World War II R boat minesweepers, including the first minesweeper (1929) fitted with a Voith Schneider propeller (R8)
Jaguar class fast attack craft
Seeadler class fast attack craft
Zobel class fast attack craft
Intrepida 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.

Gallery

Yachts

Warships

Jaguar class
Frankenthal class
Seawolf class (Lürssen TNC 45 design)

Trivia

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.

References

↑ Daniel Fisher (2013-04-05). "German Shipyard Launches World's Largest Private Yacht At 591 Feet". Forbes.