History
A.G. Vulcan Stettin was originally founded 1851 as Schiffswerft und Maschinenfabrik Früchtenicht & Brock by the two young engineers Früchtenicht and Brock in the little village Bredow near 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.
In 1857 the shipyard was renamed Stettiner Maschinenbau AG Vulcan, and as 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 1907–1909. 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. In 1928 the company went bankrupt and sold its Hamburg shipyard in 1930, the AG Vulcan Stettin had been closed.
The shipyard was finally taken over by the Polish government after World War II and a 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".
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