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AG Vulcan Stettin

January 23, 2023

Aktien-Gesellschaft Vulcan Stettin (short AG Vulcan Stettin) was a German shipbuilding and locomotive building company. Founded in 1851, it was located near the former eastern German city of Stettin, today Polish Szczecin. Because of the limited facilities in Stettin, in 1907 an additional yard was built in Hamburg. The now named Vulcan-Werke Hamburg und Stettin Actiengesellschaft constructed some of the most famous civilian German ships and it played a significant role in both World Wars, building warships for the Kaiserliche Marine and the Kriegsmarine later.

AG Vulcan Stettin
IndustryShipbuilding and Locomotive building
Founded1851
Defunct1945
FateDismantled after World War II
HeadquartersStettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland)
Number of employees
~20,000 (in 1918)
ParentDeutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau 

Both yards became members of the Deschimag in the 1920s. The Stettin shipyard was closed in 1928, opened again in 1939. During World War II it exploited slave workers, and after the war, was taken over by the Polish government, while the Hamburg yard was sold to Howaldtswerke AG in 1930 and the Locomotive Department was sold to Borsig [DE] in Berlin

History

 
Chinese turret ship Dingyuan, built by AG Vulcan Stettin in 1881 for the Chinese Imperial Beiyang Fleet

A.G. Vulcan Stettin was founded 1851 as Schiffswerft und Maschinenfabrik Früchtenicht & Brock by the two young engineers Franz F. D. Früchtenicht and Franz W. Brock in the little village Bredow, which later became suburb of the eastern German city of Stettin. Its first ship was the small iron paddle steamer, named Die Dievenow for the service between the cities of Stettin and Swinemünde. Several small vessels followed, while the yard continuously was enlarged.

When the yard went into financial problems, in 1857 the company was taken over by some entrepreneurs and politicians from Stettin and Berlin which founded the new company Stettiner Maschinenbau Actien-Gesellschaft Vulcan. Ship construction was continued, but the solution of the financial trouble was expected by additionally constructing locomotives. A subsidiary company was founded, called Abteilung Locomotivbau in Bredow bei Stettin. In 1859 the first locomotive was delivered; all together the company built about 4,000 units in Stettin until it was sold to the Berlin company Borsig.

In the future larger and larger ships were built, the facilities in Stettin could no longer sustain the scale of the operations. The yard built the Kaiser-class ocean liners.

Thus a new shipyard was built in Hamburg between 1907 and 1909. From 1911, it was named Vulcan-Werke Hamburg und Stettin Actiengesellschaft. The Hamburg yard was the scene of a week-long strike in 1918 which was only brought to a close through the reading of the War Clauses.[1]

Automatic transmissions for motor vehicles

Gustav Bauer, director of the marine engine section, supervised the work of Hermann Föttinger on the Fottinger hydraulic transmitter known as Vulcan Coupling and Vulcan Drive or fluid coupling. In 1924, Vulcan's Hermann Rieseler invented one of the first automatic transmissions, which had a two-speed planetary gearbox, torque converter, and lockup clutch; it never entered production.[2] (The less-sophisticated Hydra-Matic, which used a simple fluid coupling, was an available option on Oldsmobiles in 1940.)[2] The original coupling further developed in collaboration with Harold Sinclair of Fluidrive Engineering of Isleworth for Daimler of Coventry and matched with a manually controlled epicyclic gearbox went into production in England in 1929.[3]

Shutdown

In 1928 Vulcan Stettin went bankrupt and sold its Hamburg shipyard in 1930. The AG Vulcan Stettin had been closed.

New enterprise

1939 a new company - also named Vulcan - was founded on the site of the former Stettin-shipyard. All together 34 construction numbers were started in the following years, including 18 type-VII C submarines. But because of the war only a few ships could be launched and completed. Among these were two submarines, but only one of them (U-901) was ever in service while the second one (U-902) was destroyed by allied air attacks before. During the war the yard exploited slave workers and had its own prisoner camp, part of the prisoner population engaged in anti-Nazi resistance, successfully sabotaging several constructed ships[4][5] After World War II the slave workers were freed and the shipyard was finally taken over by the Polish government and the new Szczecin Shipyard was started at this site. The Szczecin Shipyard named one of its wharfs "Wulkan" and two slipways "Wulkan 1" and "Wulkan Nowa".

Ships built by AG Vulcan Stettin (selection)

Ships built by AG Vulcan Hamburg (selection)

Ships built by AG Vulcan Stettin (selection)

Civilian ships

 
Drawing of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse by an unknown painter

Naval ships

Battleships

Cruisers

Destroyers

Submarines (U-boats)

Torpedo Boats

Ships still afloat

  • Gryfia, ex-Tyras (1887), small railway ferry, today in Szczecin, Poland
  • Wittow (1895), small railway ferry, today shown in the harbour of Barth, Germany
  • Icebreaker Suur Tõll, today a museum ship in Tallinn, Estonia

References

  1. ^ A Life
  2. ^ a b Csere, Csaba (January 1988), "10 Best Engineering Breakthroughs", Car and Driver, vol. 33, no. 7, p. 62.
  3. ^ page 76, Smith, Brian E. (1972). The Daimler Tradition. Isleworth, UK: Transport Bookman. ISBN 0851840043.
  4. ^ Repatriacje i migracje ludności pogranicza w XX wieku: stan badań oraz źródła do dziejów pogranicza polsko-litewsko-białoruskiego Henryk Majecki,page 79, Archiwum Państwowe,2004
  5. ^ Wojskowy Przeglad Historyczny, page 210, 1967
  6. ^ (in Russian). Интернет-сайт «Водный транспорт». Archived from the original on 2018-07-15. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
  7. ^ "Extracts From the Log of the Dresden With Comments". The Naval Review, Volume 3. 1915.
  8. ^ Naval History And Heritage Command. "Callao (No. 4036) ii". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History And Heritage Command. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  9. ^ USSB (1921). "Invites Offers on S.S. Callao (ex-Sierra Cardoba". Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  10. ^ Lloyds. (PDF). Lloyd's Register (through PlimsollShipData). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 February 2015. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  • Armin Wulle: Der Stettiner Vulcan. Ein Kapitel deutscher Schiffbaugeschichte. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Herford 1989, ISBN 3-7822-0475-1
  • Dieter Grusenick: Lokomotivbau bei der Stettiner Maschinenbau AG „Vulcan“. B. Neddermeyer VBN, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-933254-70-1
  • Christian Ostersehlte: Von Howaldt zu HDW. 165 Jahre Entwicklung von einer Kieler Eisengießerei zum weltweit operierenden Schiffbau- und Technologiekonzern. Koehler-Mittler, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-7822-0916-8
  • Arnold Kludas: Die Geschichte der Deutschen Passagierschiffahrt. Band 1: Die Pionierjahre von 1850 – 1990 (= Schriften des Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseums. Bd. 18). Ernst Kabel Verlag GmbH, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-8225-0037-2
  • Arnold Kludas; Die Seeschiffe des Norddeutschen Lloyd 1857 bis 1970, Weltbild Verlag GmbH, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-86047-262-3
  • Bodo Herzog, Deutsche U-Boote 1906 – 1966, Manfred Pawlak Verlagsgesellschaft mbh, Herrsching 1990, ISBN 3-88199-687-7
  • Siegfried Breyer, Schlachtschiffe und Schlachtkreuzer 1905 - 1970J. F. Lehmanns Verlag München 1970, ISBN 978-3-88199-474-3

External links

  • Summary of AG Vulcan Stettin
  • Eisenbahnbau bei Vulcan (in German)

January 23, 2023
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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources AG Vulcan Stettin news newspapers books scholar JSTOR April 2011 Learn how and when to remove this template message Aktien Gesellschaft Vulcan Stettin short AG Vulcan Stettin was a German shipbuilding and locomotive building company Founded in 1851 it was located near the former eastern German city of Stettin today Polish Szczecin Because of the limited facilities in Stettin in 1907 an additional yard was built in Hamburg The now named Vulcan Werke Hamburg und Stettin Actiengesellschaft constructed some of the most famous civilian German ships and it played a significant role in both World Wars building warships for the Kaiserliche Marine and the Kriegsmarine later AG Vulcan StettinIndustryShipbuilding and Locomotive buildingFounded1851Defunct1945FateDismantled after World War IIHeadquartersStettin Germany now Szczecin Poland Number of employees 20 000 in 1918 ParentDeutsche Schiff und Maschinenbau Both yards became members of the Deschimag in the 1920s The Stettin shipyard was closed in 1928 opened again in 1939 During World War II it exploited slave workers and after the war was taken over by the Polish government while the Hamburg yard was sold to Howaldtswerke AG in 1930 and the Locomotive Department was sold to Borsig DE in Berlin Contents 1 History 1 1 Automatic transmissions for motor vehicles 1 2 Shutdown 1 3 New enterprise 1 4 Ships built by AG Vulcan Stettin selection 1 5 Ships built by AG Vulcan Hamburg selection 2 Ships built by AG Vulcan Stettin selection 2 1 Civilian ships 2 2 Naval ships 2 2 1 Battleships 2 2 2 Cruisers 2 2 3 Destroyers 2 2 4 Submarines U boats 2 2 5 Torpedo Boats 3 Ships still afloat 4 References 5 External linksHistory Edit Chinese turret ship Dingyuan built by AG Vulcan Stettin in 1881 for the Chinese Imperial Beiyang Fleet A G Vulcan Stettin was founded 1851 as Schiffswerft und Maschinenfabrik Fruchtenicht amp Brock by the two young engineers Franz F D Fruchtenicht and Franz W Brock in the little village Bredow which later became suburb of the eastern German city of Stettin Its first ship was the small iron paddle steamer named Die Dievenow for the service between the cities of Stettin and Swinemunde Several small vessels followed while the yard continuously was enlarged When the yard went into financial problems in 1857 the company was taken over by some entrepreneurs and politicians from Stettin and Berlin which founded the new company Stettiner Maschinenbau Actien Gesellschaft Vulcan Ship construction was continued but the solution of the financial trouble was expected by additionally constructing locomotives A subsidiary company was founded called Abteilung Locomotivbau in Bredow bei Stettin In 1859 the first locomotive was delivered all together the company built about 4 000 units in Stettin until it was sold to the Berlin company Borsig In the future larger and larger ships were built the facilities in Stettin could no longer sustain the scale of the operations The yard built the Kaiser class ocean liners Thus a new shipyard was built in Hamburg between 1907 and 1909 From 1911 it was named Vulcan Werke Hamburg und Stettin Actiengesellschaft The Hamburg yard was the scene of a week long strike in 1918 which was only brought to a close through the reading of the War Clauses 1 Automatic transmissions for motor vehicles Edit Gustav Bauer director of the marine engine section supervised the work of Hermann Fottinger on the Fottinger hydraulic transmitter known as Vulcan Coupling and Vulcan Drive or fluid coupling In 1924 Vulcan s Hermann Rieseler invented one of the first automatic transmissions which had a two speed planetary gearbox torque converter and lockup clutch it never entered production 2 The less sophisticated Hydra Matic which used a simple fluid coupling was an available option on Oldsmobiles in 1940 2 The original coupling further developed in collaboration with Harold Sinclair of Fluidrive Engineering of Isleworth for Daimler of Coventry and matched with a manually controlled epicyclic gearbox went into production in England in 1929 3 Shutdown Edit In 1928 Vulcan Stettin went bankrupt and sold its Hamburg shipyard in 1930 The AG Vulcan Stettin had been closed New enterprise Edit 1939 a new company also named Vulcan was founded on the site of the former Stettin shipyard All together 34 construction numbers were started in the following years including 18 type VII C submarines But because of the war only a few ships could be launched and completed Among these were two submarines but only one of them U 901 was ever in service while the second one U 902 was destroyed by allied air attacks before During the war the yard exploited slave workers and had its own prisoner camp part of the prisoner population engaged in anti Nazi resistance successfully sabotaging several constructed ships 4 5 After World War II the slave workers were freed and the shipyard was finally taken over by the Polish government and the new Szczecin Shipyard was started at this site The Szczecin Shipyard named one of its wharfs Wulkan and two slipways Wulkan 1 and Wulkan Nowa Ships built by AG Vulcan Stettin selection Edit 1851 Constr No 1 Paddle steamer Die Dievenow first built ship 1879 Russian steamboat Askold for Shipping Company on the Don Azov and Black Seas with their tributaries Russian Obshestvo parohodstva po Donu Azovskomu i Chernomu moryam s ih pritokami After 1886 belonged to Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company 6 1880 Corvette Olga 1881 1882 Dingyuan and Zhenyuan for Chinese Navy 1887 Irene class protected cruiser SMS Irene for Kaiserliche Marine Imperial German Navy 1922 broken up 1889 Scandia Hamburg America Line liner sold to U S Army Quartermaster Department 1898 serving as U S Army Transport Warren until 1922 sold burned sunk Shanghai 1924 1891 Brandenburg class battleship SMS Brandenburg for Kaiserliche Marine 1910 sold to the Osman Navy 1892 Aviso and imperial yacht SMY Hohenzollern for Kaiser Wilhelm II 1923 broken up 1897 4 funnel Kaiser class ocean liner Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse won 1898 Blue Riband 1897 Passenger ship Konigin Luise for Norddeutscher Lloyd NDL 1935 broken up 1897 1899 Victoria Louise class great cruisers SMS Hertha and SMS Hansa 1899 Steamer Konig Albert for NDL 1926 broken up 1901 Pre dreadnought battleship SMS Mecklenburg for Kaiserliche Marine 1900 Passenger ship Deutschland 1902 4 funnel Kaiser class ocean liner Kaiser Wilhelm II 1902 Pre dreadnought battleship SMS Preussen for Kaiserliche Marine 1903 Torpedo boat SMS Eber 1903 1904 Bremen class cruisers SMS Hamburg and SMS Lubeck for Kaiserliche Marine 1905 Pre dreadnought Deutschland class battleship SMS Pommern for Kaiserliche Marine sunk in Battle of Jutland in June 1916 1906 Passenger ship Kaiserin Auguste Victoria 1906 4 funnel Kaiser class ocean liner Kronprinzessin Cecilie 1907 Konigsberg class light cruiser SMS Stettin for Kaiserliche Marine 1906 1907 Niki class destroyers Niki Doxa Aspis and Velos for the Hellenic Royal Navy 1909 Magdeburg class cruiser SMS Breslau for Kaiserliche Marine became later Osman cruiser Midilli sunk 1918 by mines 1907 Passenger ship Konig Wilhelm II 1907 Passenger ship George Washington 1907 Nassau class battleship SMS Rheinland for Kaiserliche Marine 1909 CNo 294 small experimental ship Fottinger Transformator with steam turbine and hydrodynamic transmission Fottinger Transformator propulsion 1909 Kolberg class cruiser SMS Mainz for Kaiserliche Marine sunk 1914 in the Battle of Helgoland Bight 1910 cruiser ROU Uruguay for National Navy of Uruguay Out of service in 1951 scrapped in the 1960s 1912 Destroyers Nea Genea ex German V class destroyer V6 and Keravnos ex V5 for the Hellenic Royal Navy 1914 Imperial yacht SMY Hohenzollern for Kaiser Wilhelm II not in service 1923 scrapped in Hamburg 1915 Wiesbaden class SMS Wiesbaden for Kaiserliche Marine 1913 Passenger ship Tirpitz for HAPAG not finished during war 1919 British war booty and renamed RMS Empress of Australia 1952 scrapped 1913 Passenger ship Sierra Cordoba for Norddeutscher Lloyd supply ship for German raiders in World War I 7 seized by Peru 1917 renamed Callao chartered by United States Shipping Board USSB and transferred to U S Navy 26 April 1919 and commissioned USS Callao ID 4036 decommissioned 20 September 1919 8 Sold at auction by USSB renamed Ruth Alexander by Dollar Steamship Lines 9 10 1914 1918 All together 32 torpedo boats SMS V25 V30 SMS V43 V48 SMS V67 V84 SMS V108 and SMS V116 1915 Brummer class cruiser SMS Brummer and SMS Bremse for Kaiserliche Marine 1918 both internment in Scapa Flow 1916 1917 Coln class cruiser Rostock and Wiesbaden both not finished before the end of the war 1922 Passenger steamer Munchen for NDL 1931 renamed General von Steuben and 1938 only Steuben sunk 1945 in the Baltic Sea by Soviet submarine S 13 about 3 000 people mainly refugees killed 1923 Passenger steamer Stuttgart for NDL sunk 1943 by US Air Force 1926 Passenger ship Cobra for beach resort service used as minelayer in WWII 1942 sunk by Royal Air Force in Rotterdam 1941 Type VII C U boats U 901 and U 902 but only U 901 was ever in serviceShips built by AG Vulcan Hamburg selection Edit 1911 12 Kaiser class battleship SMS Friedrich der Grosse for Kaiserliche Marine 1913 14 Passenger ship Imperator 1913 14 Konig class battleship SMS Grosser Kurfurst for Kaiserliche Marine 1913 14 Merchant ship Cap Trafalgar 1914 Battleship Salamis for Hellenic Navy construction stopped with beginning of war 1932 scrapped in Bremen 1915 1917 All together 69 U boats of types UE 1 UE 2 UB III UC I and UC II for Kaiserliche Marine 1916 Modified Mackensen class battlecruiser SMS Ersatz Yorck Replacement Yorck construction stopped and after war broken up 1917 Bayern class battleship SMS Wurttemberg for Kaiserliche Marine not finished before end of war 1922 Merchant ship Cap NorteShips built by AG Vulcan Stettin selection EditCivilian ships Edit Drawing of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse by an unknown painter Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse 1896 Deutschland 1900 Kaiser Wilhelm II 1902 Kaiserin Auguste Victoria 1906 Kronprinzessin Cecilie 1906 Konig Wilhelm II 1907 George Washington 1907 Tirpitz 1913 Naval ships Edit SMS Rheinland Battleships Edit Chinese turret ship Dingyuan 1881 Chinese turret ship Zhenyuan 1882 SMS Brandenburg 1890 SMS Weissenburg 1890 SMS Mecklenburg 1900 SMS Preussen 1902 SMS Pommern 1904 SMS Rheinland 1907 Cruisers Edit SMS Breslau Chinese cruiser Jiyuan 1883 SMS Irene 1887 Chinese cruiser Jingyuan 1887 Chinese cruiser Laiyuan 1887 Chinese cruiser Hai Yung 1897 Japanese cruiser Yakumo 1897 SMS Hertha 1897 SMS Hansa 1898 Russian cruiser Bogatyr 1901 SMS Hamburg 1902 SMS Lubeck 1903 SMS Stettin 1906 SMS Mainz 1908 SMS Breslau 1910 SMS Wiesbaden 1913 SMS Brummer 1915 SMS Bremse 1915 SMS Wiesbaden 1915 Destroyers Edit Nea Genea Greek destroyer Niki 1906 Greek destroyer Doxa 1906 Greek destroyer Aspis 1907 Greek destroyer Velos 1907 Greek destroyer Nea Genea 1912 Greek destroyer Keravnos 1912 Submarines U boats Edit Type VII C U boats 1941 out of six commissioned only one U 901 was ever in service Torpedo Boats Edit SMS V25 1914 SMS V26 1914 SMS V27 1914 SMS V28 1914 SMS V29 1914 SMS V30 1914 SMS V43 1915 SMS V44 1915 SMS V45 1915 SMS V46 1915 SMS V47 1915 SMS V48 1915 SMS V67 1915 SMS V68 1915 SMS V69 1916 SMS V70 1916 SMS V71 1916 SMS V72 1916 SMS V73 1916 SMS V74 1916 SMS V75 1916 SMS V76 1916 SMS V77 1916 SMS V78 1916 SMS V79 1916 SMS V80 1916 SMS V81 1916 SMS V82 1916 SMS V83 1916 SMS V84 1916 SMS V108 ex Dutch Z 4 later Polish ORP Kaszub SMS V116 1918 Ships still afloat EditGryfia ex Tyras 1887 small railway ferry today in Szczecin Poland Wittow 1895 small railway ferry today shown in the harbour of Barth Germany Icebreaker Suur Toll today a museum ship in Tallinn EstoniaReferences Edit A Life a b Csere Csaba January 1988 10 Best Engineering Breakthroughs Car and Driver vol 33 no 7 p 62 page 76 Smith Brian E 1972 The Daimler Tradition Isleworth UK Transport Bookman ISBN 0851840043 Repatriacje i migracje ludnosci pogranicza w XX wieku stan badan oraz zrodla do dziejow pogranicza polsko litewsko bialoruskiego Henryk Majecki page 79 Archiwum Panstwowe 2004 Wojskowy Przeglad Historyczny page 210 1967 Askold in Russian Internet sajt Vodnyj transport Archived from the original on 2018 07 15 Retrieved 2019 04 09 Extracts From the Log of the Dresden With Comments The Naval Review Volume 3 1915 Naval History And Heritage Command Callao No 4036 ii Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Naval History And Heritage Command Retrieved 25 February 2015 USSB 1921 Invites Offers on S S Callao ex Sierra Cardoba Retrieved 25 February 2015 Lloyds Lloyd s Register 1932 33 PDF Lloyd s Register through PlimsollShipData Archived from the original PDF on 25 February 2015 Retrieved 25 February 2015 Armin Wulle Der Stettiner Vulcan Ein Kapitel deutscher Schiffbaugeschichte Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Herford 1989 ISBN 3 7822 0475 1 Dieter Grusenick Lokomotivbau bei der Stettiner Maschinenbau AG Vulcan B Neddermeyer VBN Berlin 2006 ISBN 3 933254 70 1 Christian Ostersehlte Von Howaldt zu HDW 165 Jahre Entwicklung von einer Kieler Eisengiesserei zum weltweit operierenden Schiffbau und Technologiekonzern Koehler Mittler Hamburg 2004 ISBN 3 7822 0916 8 Arnold Kludas Die Geschichte der Deutschen Passagierschiffahrt Band 1 Die Pionierjahre von 1850 1990 Schriften des Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseums Bd 18 Ernst Kabel Verlag GmbH Hamburg 1986 ISBN 3 8225 0037 2 Arnold Kludas Die Seeschiffe des Norddeutschen Lloyd 1857 bis 1970 Weltbild Verlag GmbH Augsburg 1998 ISBN 3 86047 262 3 Bodo Herzog Deutsche U Boote 1906 1966 Manfred Pawlak Verlagsgesellschaft mbh Herrsching 1990 ISBN 3 88199 687 7 Siegfried Breyer Schlachtschiffe und Schlachtkreuzer 1905 1970J F Lehmanns Verlag Munchen 1970 ISBN 978 3 88199 474 3External links EditSummary of AG Vulcan Stettin Eisenbahnbau bei Vulcan in German Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title AG Vulcan Stettin amp oldid 1128718595, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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