Elbewerft Boizenburg was a German

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company, headquartered in

Boizenburg Boizenburg () is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Elbe, 53 km west of Ludwigslust, 25 km northeast of Lüneburg and 50 km e ...

. Since 1990 it has been part of the Deutschen Maschinen- und Schiffbau AG (DMS AG).

History

The boat workshop was founded by Franz Jürgen Lemm in 1793. The first steel ship was launched in 1895. The shipyard developed quickly, from Elbewerft, Boizenburger Werft to Thomsen & Co, in 1938. After

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the shipyard was founded as VVW Elbewerft Boizenburg VEB on the basis of Thomsen & Co and after 1945 and the separation of Germany, the shipyard focused on markets in

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. In 1970, after fusion with shipyard in

Roßlau Rosslau (in German orthography: Roßlau) was until 30 June 2007 a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, belonging to the district Anhalt-Zerbst. After a fusion with the town of Dessau it became eponym of the newly founded town of Dessau-Roßlau and a q ...

,Shipbuilding- and Shipping Exhibition Roßlau
/ref> Elbewerft Boizenburg became part of VEB Elbewerften Boizenburg/Roßlau, which was one of the most renowned state-owned shipyards of the

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Ships built by VEB Elbewerften Boizenburg/Roßlau (selection)

Fishcutters

* Typ ''Havanna'' Bundesarchiv Bild 183-J0708-0016-001, Rostock, Fischkutter für Kuba.jpg, Young workers from

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Bundesarchiv Bild 183-J0708-0017-001, Rostock, Fischkutter für Kuba.jpg, Fishcutter for Cuba

Container ships

* Typ CBK

River cruise ships

* '' Vladimir Ilyich'' (1975) * '' 30 Let GDR'' (1980) * ''

Dmitriy Furmanov Dmitriy Andreyevich Furmanov (russian: Дми́трий Андре́евич Фу́рманов; 7 November 1891, Sereda – 15 March 1926, Moscow) was a Russian writer, revolutionary and military officer. Biography He was born to a peasant f ...

'' (1983) * '' Igor Stravinskiy'' (1983) * ''

Sergey Dyagilev Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev ( ; rus, Серге́й Па́влович Дя́гилев, , sʲɪˈrɡʲej ˈpavləvʲɪdʑ ˈdʲæɡʲɪlʲɪf; 19 August 1929), usually referred to outside Russia as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, pat ...

'' (1983) * '' Aleksey Surkov'' (1984) * ''

Konstantin Simonov Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov, born Kirill Mikhailovich Simonov (russian: link= no, Константин Михайлович Симонов, – 28 August 1979), was a Soviet author, war poet, playwright and wartime correspondent, arguab ...

'' (1984) * ''

Sergey Kirov Sergei Mironovich Kirov ( né Kostrikov; 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary whose assassination led to the first Great Purge. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and memb ...

'' (1987) * ''

Marshal Rybalko Pavel Semyonovich Rybalko (23 October 1894 – 28 August 1948; russian: Па́вел Семёнович Рыба́лко, uk, Павло Семенович Рибалко) was a commander of armoured troops in the Red Army during and following W ...

'' (1988) * ''

Taras Shevchenko Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko ( uk, Тарас Григорович Шевченко , pronounced without the middle name; – ), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar (a kobzar is a bard in Ukrainian culture), was a Ukrainian poet, writ ...

'' (1991) * ''

Konstantin Stanyukovich Konstantin Mikhaylovich Staniukovich or Stanyukovich (russian: Константин Михайлович Станюкович; March 30, 1843 – May 20, 1903) National Library of Australia"Library items by K. M. Staniukovich" was a Russian writer, ...

'' (1991) Vladimir301.JPG, ''Sankt-Peterburg'' (originally, the ''Vladimir Ilyich'') Теплоход 30 ЛЕТ ГДР (1982 год) Хабаровск.jpg, ''30 Let GDR'' on the

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in the

Soviet Far East The Russian Far East (russian: Дальний Восток России, r=Dal'niy Vostok Rossii, p=ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ) is a region in Northeast Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asian continent; and is admin ...

T. G. Shevchenko (ship, 1991) 001.jpg, ''T. G. Shevchenko'' at pier in

Nesebar Nesebar (often transcribed as Nessebar and sometimes as Nesebur, bg, Несебър, pronounced ) is an ancient city and one of the major seaside resorts on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, located in Burgas Province. It is the administrative centr ...

T. G. Shevchenko (ship, 1991) 002.jpg, Ship's passageway

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