Lloyd Werft Wismar (former '' VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar'', ''Aker MTW Werft'', ''Wadan Yards MTW'', ''Nordic Yards Wismar'') is a German

shipbuilding Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels. It normally takes place in a specialized facility known as a shipyard. Shipbuilders, also called shipwrights, follow a specialized occupation that traces its roots to befor ...

company, headquartered in

Wismar Wismar (; Low German: ''Wismer''), officially the Hanseatic City of Wismar (''Hansestadt Wismar'') is, with around 43,000 inhabitants, the sixth-largest city of the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and the fourth-largest city ...

. Since June 1, 1990 it has been part of the Deutschen Maschinen- und Schiffbau AG (DMS AG), 2009–2016 was part of the Nordic Yards Holding GmbH, and since 2016 is part of the Lloyd Werft Group.

History

The ship repair yard was founded by

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

on April 27, 1946. The ''Ivan Susanin'' was the first ship repaired at this yard. The shipyard developed quickly, from Soviet ship repair yard to VVB Schiffsreparaturwerft Wismar, in 1948, renamed to Hochseeschiffbau Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar VEB, in 1951. The first new ship ''V. Chkalov'' was built for the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

war reparations War reparations are compensation payments made after a war by one side to the other. They are intended to cover damage or injury inflicted during a war. History Making one party pay a war indemnity is a common practice with a long history. R ...

after

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

on March 30, 1954. In 2016,

Genting Hong Kong Genting Hong Kong Limited ( zh, 雲頂香港有限公司) was a holding company that operated cruise and resort businesses. It was headquartered in (海洋中心), Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (). It was p ...

purchased Nordic Yards Wismar and combined it with the Nordic Yards Warnemunde and Stralsund shipyards and the German

Lloyd Werft Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven GmbH is a dockyard in Bremerhaven. It was founded in 1863 by the shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd, first mainly used as a repair workshop for the company’s own merchant fleet. This new yard was established in ...

shipyard to form the Lloyd Werft Group, subsequently reorganized as

MV Werften MV Werften is a Hong Kong–Germany, German shipbuilding company that operates three facilities in eastern Germany to construct cruise ships for parent company Genting Hong Kong. In January 2022, MV Werften filed for bankruptcy, and an admini ...

Ships built by Nordic Yards Wismar 2009-2016

Container ships

* 2010 - being converted (2015-2018) as Auxiliary replenishment vessel for

Royal Canadian Navy The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN; french: Marine royale canadienne, ''MRC'') is the Navy, naval force of Canada. The RCN is one of three environmental commands within the Canadian Armed Forces. As of 2021, the RCN operates 12 frigates, four attack s ...

Ships built by VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar 1951-1990 (selection)

Folding kayaks

* Typ ''Kolibri''

Cargo ships

* Typ Afrika * Typ MBC *

Typ OBC ''Typ'' is German for “type” and is sometimes used internationally, e.g. to refer to automobile models (for example: Volkswagen Polo Mk1, known as ''Typ 86''; SEAT Arosa (''Typ 6H''); Škoda Felicia The Škoda Felicia, (''Typ'' 791) was a C-s ...

River cruise ships

* '' V. Chkalov'' (1954) -

Rodina-class motorship The ''Rodina'' class is a class of Russian river passenger ships. " Rodina" means "motherland" in Russian. They were three-deck cargo-passenger ships manufactured in Germany from 1954–1961. River passenger ships of the project 588 Overview ...

for

Yenisei Shipping Company The Yenisey (russian: Енисе́й, ''Yeniséy''; mn, Горлог мөрөн, ''Gorlog mörön''; Buryat: Горлог мүрэн, ''Gorlog müren''; Tuvan: Улуг-Хем, ''Uluğ-Hem''; Khakas: Ким суғ, ''Kim suğ''; Ket: Ӄук ...

* '' Korolenko'' (1954) * '' Kavkaz'' (1958)

Ocean liners/Cruise ships

* (1958) - scrapped in India 1994 * '' Feliks Dzerzhinskiy'' (1958) - sank off Canton, China 1993 * (1959) - scrapped in India 1992 * '' Bashkiriya'' (1964) - sank 2006 in Chao Praya River (Bangkok, Thailand) as MS ''Siritara Ocean Queen'' * ''

Aleksandr Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

'' (1965) - renamed as MS ''Marco Polo'' in 1991 and scrapped in India 2021 *''

MS Mikhail Lermontov MS ''Mikhail Lermontov'' was an ocean liner owned by the Soviet Union's Baltic Shipping Company, built in 1972 by V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany. It was later converted into a cruise ship. On 16 February 1986 it collided wit ...

'' (1972) - sank 1986 near Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand Marco Polo 2 August 2012 Tallinn.JPG , ''Marco Polo'' (originally named ''Aleksandr Pushkin'') Bundesarchiv Bild 183-63460-0001, Wismar, Seefahrgastschiff "Michail Kalinin".jpg, ''Mikhail Kalinin'' – the first passenger ship in sea-shipping history returned from Antarctica Bundesarchiv Bild 183-63381-0001, Wismar, Seefahrtgastschiff "Ordskonikidse".jpg, ''Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze'' at shipyard on April 9, 1959 Vyborg June2012 Korolenko Hotel Ship.jpg, ''Korolenko'' as hotelship at

Vyborg Vyborg (; rus, Вы́борг, links=1, r=Výborg, p=ˈvɨbərk; fi, Viipuri ; sv, Viborg ; german: Wiborg ) is a town in, and the administrative center of, Vyborgsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It lies on the Karelian Isthmus ne ...

Gospodin Velikiy Novgorod 9 May 2010.jpg , The Russian training ship ''Gospodin Velikiy Novgorod'' on the

Volkhov River The Volkhov (russian: Во́лхов) is a river in Novgorodsky and Chudovsky Districts of Novgorod Oblast and Kirishsky and Volkhovsky Districts of Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia. It connects Lake Ilmen and Lake Ladoga and forms pa ...

Bundesarchiv Bild 183-58610-0003, Wismar, Mathias-Thesen-Werft, Ausrüstungskai.jpg, ''Feliks Dzerzhinskiy'' at the outfitting quay

References

External links

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