Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft is a German
shipbuilding
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company located in
Flensburg. The company trades as ''Flensburger'' and is commonly abbreviated ''FSG''.
History
''Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft'' was founded in 1872 by a group of five local
shipowners who previously had all their
steamboats built in
England
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as most German shipowners did in the 19th century.
The first ship, the iron
tall ship ''Doris Brodersen'', was delivered to one of the founding partners in 1875. The cargo steamer ''Septima'' was commissioned a year later.
Since then Flensburger has delivered more than 700 units of different types of cargo steamers and motor vessels and has also built
sailing ship
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s,
barge
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s,
floating dry docks,
tankers,
fishing vessel
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s,
passenger ship
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s,
naval ship
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s and even
submarines.
Flensburger was acquired by
Egon Oldendorff
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in March 1990 and then sold to the management in December 2008.
Since 1 September 2020, the shipyard is owned by the Tennor Group, controlled by
Lars Windhorst
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In 2015, he was ranked in the Sunday Times Rich List, with his net worth reported as ...
. Subsequently, in August 2021 FSG acquired the neighboring
Nobiskrug
Nobiskrug is a shipyard located on the Eider River in Rendsburg, Germany, specialized in building innovative, custom-made luxury superyachts.
In 2020 it celebrated its 115 years of operation.
History
Nobiskrug was founded in 1905 by Otto ...
superyacht shipyard, located in
Rendsburg.
Ships built by Flensburger (selection)
Historic ships
* ''
Doris Brodersen
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* Doris, fictional character in the Canadian television series ''Caillou'' and the mother of the titular character
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'', first ship built, a tall ship delivered in 1875
* ''
Septima'', first steamer delivered 1876
* ''
Deutschland'' and ''
Bremen
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'', two
merchant submarines delivered 1916
Contemporary ships
Civil transport:
* , a ro-ro ship delivered 2001 to U.N Ro-Ro İşletmeleri A.Ş, a Turkish-based shipping company.
* Three
''Coastal'' class ferries for
BC Ferries
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,
British Columbia
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,
Canada
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.
* for the BC Ferries route from
Port Hardy to
Prince Rupert
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[Remark: originally hull 738 but contracts to build other vessel came in so the ''Northern Expedition'' was squeezed into the building process]
* Eight ConRo220 freight ferries for
Cobelfret.
* Six RoRo3900 freight ferries for DFDS.
* Eight RoRo3750 freight ferries for Ulosoy Sealines.
* Two ConRo220 freight ferries for Bore Ltd/Rettig Group Ltd.
* Four RoRo2200 freight ferries for
Seatruck Ferries.
*
MV ''Loch Seaforth'', a ro-ro ship delivered in 2014 to
Caledonian MacBrayne, a
Scottish
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*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
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ferry company.
* , a ro-ro ship delivered in 2018 to
Irish Ferries
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* , a ro-ro ship under construction for
Brittany Ferries
Naval ships:
* Three
''Oste'' class (Type 423) electronic surveillance ships for the
German Navy
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.
* Two
''Elbe'' class (Type 404) replenishment ships for the German Navy.
* Two
''Berlin'' class (Type 702) replenishment ships for the German Navy.
* Four of six
''Point'' class ro-ro strategic transports for the
UK Ministry of Defence.
Gallery
A gallery of vessels built by Flensburger.
Image:Cobelfret "Pauline".jpg, ''Pauline'', a ro-ro vessel for Cobelfret Ferries
Image:There she goes further.jpg, Launching of
Image:Navy supply vessel "Berlin".jpg, Replenishment ship ''Berlin
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'' of the German Navy
File:SEATRUCK PROGRESS.JPG, ''Seatruck Progress'', a RoRo2200 ferry
References
External links
Homepage of Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG)*
Shipbuilding companies of Germany
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1872
Defence companies of Germany
Flensburg
1872 establishments in Germany
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