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Lürssen

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Fr. Lürssen Werft GmbH & Co.KG
Company typeGmbH
IndustryShipbuilding
Founded1875;149 years ago(1875)
FounderFriedrich Lürssen
Headquarters
Bremen-Vegesack,Bremen,Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
,
Germany
Area served
worldwide
Key people
Peter Lürssen (CEO)
ProductsYachts
Naval ships
Revenue€1,830 billion
Number of employees
1,935
DivisionsFr. Lürssen Werft
Lürssen Logistics
Lürssen Yachts
Lürssen Schacht-Audorf (Rendsburg)
Lürssen Berne-Bardenfleth
Websitewww.luerssen.de
Footnotes / references
slogan
My firm shall be known as the leader in both quality and performance
(Friedrich Lürssen, 1875)

Lürssen(orLürssen Werft) is a Germanshipyardwith headquarters inBremen-Vegesackand shipbuilding facilities inLemwerder,Berne and Bremen-Fähr-Lobbendorf.

Plant in Lemwerder
Plant in Schacht-Audorf (Rendsburg)
damaged by a fire in 2024[1]

Lürssen designs and constructsyachts,naval shipsand special vessels. Trading asLürssen Yachts,it is one of the leading builders of customsuperyachtssuch asPaul Allen'sOctopus,David Geffen'sRising Sun,andKhalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan'sAzzam,the second largest private yacht in the world at 180 m in length after theREV Ocean.[2][3]

History

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On 27 June 1875 the 24 year-oldFriedrich Lürssenset up a boatbuilding workshop in Aumund, a suburb ofBremen,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).[4]

In 2016 Lürssen acquired shipbuilding companyBlohm+Vossin a long-term partnership.[5]

On 1 March 2018, a German consortium consisting ofThyssen Kruppand Lürssen 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 shipbuilderDamen.[6]

On 14 September 2018, afirebroke out in the floating dock at Fähr-Lobbendorf, burning the then-under construction structure of the yachtSassi.[7]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.[8]

Class 424

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German Navywanted to replace itsSIGINT shipsof Osteclass 423by three new ships ofclass 424.In June 2021, theBundestagapproved the development and procurement of three auxiliary ships as well as a training and reference reconnaissance facility (ARAA) for sea-based signal detection reconnaissance (ssA). As the main contractor, Lürssen was commissioned to develop the systems by February 2023. All services should be completed by 2029. The first of the three boats is scheduled to be put into service in 2027 and will mark the replacement of the fleet service boatsOker,AlsterandOstefrom the 1980this.[9]

When concluding the contract with Naval Vessels Lürssen (NVL) in June 2021, the Federal Audit Office,Bundesrechnungshofreported “significant concerns”. It criticized the fact that the Ministry of Defense only wanted to discuss with the shipyard after the contract had been signed how exactly the ships should be built. "Billions were awarded blindly and a very bad negotiating situation," wrote theSüddeutsche Zeitung.The Federal Audit Office feared "additional expenditure in the medium term."[10]

In 2023, the ships only existed vaguely and sketchily on paper.The new building increased in price from 2.1 billion euros to 3.3 billion euros (2023).[9][11]The Federal court of Audit,Bundesrechnungshofintervened in 2023 and stated that there were significant risks arising from the contract structure with Lürssen.

Yachts

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

Main article:List of yachts built by Lürssen
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NVL is the military division of Lürssen and is building small to medium size naval vessels mainly for exporting.

Lürssen was awarded a 2.6 billion contract in 2017 to build twelve patrol boats for the Australian Navy. Work began in Adelaide in mid-2018. Lürssen was the general contractor and was responsible for the design, construction management and the overall manufacturing process. The first "Offshore Patrol Vessel"(OPV) was delivered in 2021 and replaced theRoyal Australian NavyformerArmidale-classvessels.[12]

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Naval ships built by Lürssen include:

Lürssen is currently also involved with the building ofBraunschweig-classcorvettes and is part of the ARGE F125joint-venturedesigning theBaden-Württemberg-classfrigates.

Lürssen has the contract to design and build twelveArafura-class offshore patrol vesselsfor Australia. Construction of the first two will be inAdelaidebyASC Pty Ltd.The remaining ten will be constructed inWestern AustraliabyCivmec.

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Yachts

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Warships

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Trivia

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  • Lursen-Swas the name of a Sovietcounter-espionageoperation of the late 1940s/early 1950s that infiltrated and compromisedOperation Jungle,anMI6program that used LürssenE-boatsto insert British-trainedBalticagents into theSoviet Union.
  • Lürssen has an app offering a gallery of pictures for most of their luxury yachts along with the length measurements.

See also

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References

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  1. ^https://www.meretmarine.com/fr/construction-navale/violent-incendie-dans-un-des-chantiers-du-groupe-lurssen[bare URL]
  2. ^Daniel Fisher (2013-04-05)."German Shipyard Launches World's Largest Private Yacht At 591 Feet".Forbes.
  3. ^Nicholls, Laura (24 August 2019)."World's largest yacht launched: The 183m REV Ocean".www.superyachttimes.com.Retrieved20 October2020.
  4. ^Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger.16. September 2011, P. 11
  5. ^"Breaking news: Lürssen acquires Blohm + Voss".superyachttimes.com. 28 September 2016.Retrieved28 September2016.
  6. ^Murphy, Martin (March 1, 2018)."Deutsche Werften gehen bei Großauftrag der Marine leer aus".Handelsblatt.com.
  7. ^"Lürssen shipyard fire under control".superyachttimes.com.September 16, 2018.RetrievedSeptember 16,2018.
  8. ^"Nächster Traditionswerft in Hamburg droht massiver Stellenabbau".October 2021.
  9. ^abES&T Redaktion (2023-07-10)."Weitere Mittel für neue Flottendienstboote freigegeben".esut.de(in German).Retrieved2023-11-24.
  10. ^Ludwig, Kristiana; Szymanski, Mike (2023-06-28)."Kostenexplosion: Deutsche Aufklärungsschiffe 1,2 Milliarden Euro teurer".Süddeutsche.de(in German).Retrieved2023-11-24.
  11. ^Peters (NDR), Massimo Bognanni, Martin Kaul (WDR) und Nils Naber, Stella."Kostenexplosion bei Spionageschiffen für die Bundeswehr".tagesschau.de(in German).Retrieved2023-11-24.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ^"Milliardenauftrag an Bremer Lürssen-Werft – DW – 24.11.2017".dw.com(in German).Retrieved2023-11-24.
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