History
Small trading ships similar to Jacobstads Wapen were built in Finnish coastal towns in the 18th century. Small scale shipyards continued to exist well into the 20th century. The first large scale shipyard was the galley dry dock at Sveaborg built in the mid 18th century, which serviced the ships that won one of the largest sea battles in history.
The first shipyard in Turku was established in 1732. After the Crimean War William Crichton acquired a workshop and built a new shipyard, which later was merging smaller shipyards and developed into Crichton-Vulcan, merged with Wärtsilä between 1936 and 1938.
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