Sandvikens Skeppsdocka och Mekaniska Verkstad

Aktiebolaget Sandvikens Skeppsdocka och Mekaniska Verkstad
Native name
Swedish: Aktiebolaget Sandvikens Skeppsdocka och Mekaniska Verkstad
Finnish: Osakeyhtiö Hietalahden Sulkutelakka ja Konepaja
Company typeosakeyhtiö
Industryshipbuilding
PredecessorHelsingfors Skeppsdocka[1]
Founded25 October 1895; 128 years ago (1895-10-25) in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland[1]
FoundersJ. C. Burmeister
Edvin Bergroth
Alfred Norrmén
Theodor Tallqvist
Paul Sinebrychoff
Theodor Stude
A. Einighorst
Victor Ek[2]
Defunct1938[3]
Fateamalgamated into Wärtsilä
SuccessorWärtsilä Hietalahti Shipyard[3]
HeadquartersHietalahti,
Helsinki
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Grand Duchy of Finland (→1917)
Finland (1917→)
Parent

Aktiebolaget Sandvikens Skeppsdocka och Mekaniska Verkstad (Finnish: Osakeyhtiö Hietalahden Sulkutelakka ja Konepaja; 'Hietalahti Shipyard and Engineering Works Ltd.') was a Finnish shipbuilding and engineering company that operated in Helsinki in 1895–1938. The company was set up to continue shipbuilding at Hietalahti shipyard, after its predecessor Helsingfors Skeppsdocka, which operated the yard in 1865–1895, had bankrupted.

The company portfolio consisted of the building and repairing of ships and the production of tram and railway wagons, boilers, steam and combustion engines, winches and other products. Before and during the First World War the main customers were the Imperial Russian Navy and the Finnish State Railways. Following the Finnish Declaration of Independence in 1917, the Finnish Civil War broke out in 1918. The yard was closed until the Red Guards had left the city.

Due to recession in shipbuilding the company owners decided to sell the shares to another Helsinki engineering company, Kone- ja Siltarakennus in 1926. In 1935 Kone- ja Siltarakennus was taken over by Wärtsilä, which amalgamated Hietalahti Shipyard and Engineering Works into its own organisation. The yard continued operating under the name Wärtsilä Hietalahti Shipyard after that.

  1. ^ a b Osakeyhtiö Hietalahden...: Laivatelakka uuden hallinnon aikana. pp. 38–47.
  2. ^ Osakeyhtiö Hietalahden...: Laivatelakka osakeyhtiönä. pp. 48–57.
  3. ^ a b c d Zilliacus, Benedict (1984). "Ahven". Wilhelm Wahlforss (in Finnish). Translated from Swedish by Riitta Valajärvi. Porvoo: Oy Wärtsilä Ab. pp. 138–150. ISBN 951-99541-8-X.
  4. ^ Osakeyhtiö Hietalahden...: Toiminta jälkeen vuoden 1918. pp. 90–104.