Lürssen

Lürssen (or Lürssen Werft) is a German shipyard with headquarters in Bremen-Vegesack and shipbuilding facilities in Lemwerder, Berne and Bremen-Fähr-Lobbendorf.

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 Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan's ''Azzam'', the second largest private yacht in the world at 180 m in length after the REV Ocean''.

History

On 27 June 1875 the 24 year-old Friedrich Lürssen set up a boatbuilding workshop in Aumund, a suburb of Bremen, Germany. The focus of work in the first years was on work boats for fishing and ferry operations. Hull number one was a five meter long rowboat. From the 1880s Lürssen opened up the sport boat market. In 1886 the first motorboat in the world was built by Lürssen (according to his own account).''Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger''. 16. September 2011, P. 11

In 2016 Lürssen acquired shipbuilding company Blohm+Voss in a long-term partnership.

On 1 March 2018, a German consortium consisting of Thyssen Krupp and Luerssen was excluded by the German Government from the tender for the construction of the multi-purpose warship MKS 180 for the benefit of GNY ( German Naval Yards), belonging to the Prinvinvest group, and the Dutch shipbuilder Damen.

On 14 September 2018, a fire broke out in the floating dock at Fähr-Lobbendorf, burning the then-under construction structure of the yacht ''Sassi''. With around 900 emergency services deployed, it was the largest deployment of the Bremen fire brigade in the post-war period. The damage was estimated at more than 610 million euros.

On 29 September 2021, it was announced by Peter Lürssen, owner of company, Blohm+Voss to be downsizing, from the ~ 580 workers, more than 100 would leave the company, the Docks are to be reviewed, no more Cruise ships would be renewed in Hamburg, nor Tankers and Container ships. B+V stays only with the NVL Defence Ships and the Yachts Business. The Area of Installations is to be reduced as well. The Department of Projects of New Buildings was dissolved.

Yachts

Below is a list of all the yachts built by Lürssen:

Naval ships

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)
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Lürssen is currently also involved with the building of s and is part of the ARGE F125 joint-venture designing the s.

Lürssen has the contract to design and build twelve ''Arafura''-class offshore patrol vessels for Australia. Construction of the first two will be in Adelaide by ASC Pty Ltd. The remaining ten will be constructed in Western Australia by Civmec.

Gallery

Yachts

File:Dilbar-Barcelona 2017.jpg, Dilbar
File:Megayacht Octopus.jpg, Octopus
File:Rising Sun Yacht.JPG, Rising Sun
File:Pelorus.JPG, Pelorus
File:Yacht Eos Dartmouth Feb 2008.jpg, Eos
File:London MMB »295 City Canal and "Kismet".jpg, Kismet
File:1343 Azzam.jpg, Azzam
File:2017-06-11 Luxusyacht AURORA bei der Lürssen-Werft Schacht-Audorf (2122).jpg, Aurora
File:RADIANT 1324.jpg, Radiant

Warships

File:German Motor Torpedo Boat underway at speed prior to 1939.jpg, E-boat
File:Räumboot Algol.jpg, R boat
File:Bundespräsident Gustav Heinemann besucht die WERRA (A 68) im Tirpitzhafen zur Kieler Woche 1971 (Kiel 49.143).jpg, ''Zobel'' class
File:Jaguar - Dommel.jpg, ''Jaguar'' class
File:1974 Schnellboote Kl. 141.jpg, ''Seeadler'' class
File:KDB Darulehsan.jpg, ''Darussalam'' class
File:Fregatte F222 msu2017-8716.jpg, ''Baden-Württemberg'' class
File:KDB Syafaat (FPB-19).jpg, ''Ijtihad'' class
File:RSS Valiant sails next to the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.jpg, ''Victory'' class
File:S62 Falke.jpeg, ''Albatros'' class
File:Chl LM39.jpg, ''Tiger'' class
File:ARA Intrepida (P 85).jpg, ''Intrépida'' class
File:Republic of Singapore Navy missile gunboat RSS Sea Dragon (P78) at Changi Naval Base, Singapore - 20070527.jpg, Seawolf-class
File:TCG P-336 Zıpkın 20171029 (5).jpg, ''Kılıç'' class
File:Minenjagdboot Grömitz.JPG, ''Frankenthal'' class
File:M1090 Pegnitz Nord-Ostsee-Kanal 1.JPG, ''Ensdorf'' class
File:M1063 Bad Bevensen Minenjagdboot der Frankenthal-Klasse der Bundeswehr (16557472387).jpg, ''Frankenthal'' class

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.
* Lürssen has an app offering a gallery of pictures for most of their luxury yachts along with the length measurements.

See also

* E-boat

References

External links

Lürssen DefenceList of Naval vessels as built by Lürssen GmbHYachts built by Lürssen
- SYT
Some Lürssen's yachts videosYacht ''Vive la Vie'' Lürssen honored with the ‘Motor Yacht of the Year Award’ at the World Superyacht Awards 2010 in London for The 60m motor yacht Arkley

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Companies established in 1875
Military vehicle manufacturers
German boat builders
Shipbuilding companies of Germany
Defence companies of Germany
German brands
Companies based in Bremen
Manufacturing companies based in Bremen (state)
History of Bremen (city)
1875 establishments in Germany