GDR. National enterprise shipyard Varnov, 1954

Germany

The shipyard, worn out in the most difficult post-war period, created by the calloused hands of workers, began its new life in the conditions of the socialist German state. The decisive event in its history was the receipt of orders from the USSR for major repairs and re-equipment of large passenger ships. Currently, motor ships with a displacement of 20 thousand tons are parked at the shipyard's berths. These are the liners "Soviet Union", "Nakhimov", "Yuri Dolgoruky&qu.. Read more »ot;. The steel hulls of these ships were raised from the seabed. From the article "Warnow Shipyard" by Stefan Geim. "Soviet Union" - since 1953, a Soviet, originally German ocean liner, launched at the Blohm Voss shipyard in 1922 under the name "Albert Ballin" ”, in 1935 renamed “Hansa” (“Hansa”). Decommissioned in 1980 under the name "Tobolsk", in 1982 sold for scrap and cut up in Hong Kong.