Crichton-Vulcan [SEP] industry
Crichton-Vulcan
Crichton-Vulcan is an abandoned shipyard in Turku, Finland, that once formed the cornerstone of the Finnish shipbuilding industry. The shipyard is best known for the World War II coastal defence ships and submarines it produced.
Shipbuilding at the yard gradually ended after 1976, after a new shipyard had been built in the suburb Perno. The old yard was taken over by Turku Repair Yard and used for ship repair until 2004, when they too moved to the nearby city of Naantali. The shipyard by
in Finnish 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. Nazi Germany outsourced remarkable submarine industry to Finland at the times of World Wars, a section of industry that was later declared outlaw in the Paris Peace Treaty, but also something that came to be an important foundation for Finnish maritime industry.
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