Aalborg Shipyard was a shipyard

Shipyard

Shipyards and dockyards are places which repair and build ships. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Dockyards are sometimes more associated with maintenance and basing activities than shipyards, which are sometimes associated more with initial...

 located in the Danish

Denmark

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 town of Aalborg

Aalborg

-Transport:On the north side of the Limfjord is Nørresundby, which is connected to Aalborg by a road bridge Limfjordsbroen, an iron railway bridge Jernbanebroen over Limfjorden, as well as a motorway tunnel running under the Limfjord Limfjordstunnelen....

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Founded in 1912 by brothers Immanuel Stuhr and Peter Philip Stuhr, the shipyard was founded under the name Stuhr Engine and Ship Construction, a development of their father's business. From 1937 until the yard closed in 1988, it was owned by J. Lauritzen

Ships built at Aalborg Shipyard

Build No.	Built	Name of vessel	Ordering company
42	1930	MF Heimdal	Danish State Railways
134	1961	Neck Egense	Neck Egense Ferry Service
147	1964	MF Esbjerg	Danish State Railways
156	1964	ALBA	Port of Dublin
159	1965	Goliath Thy	Svitzer Wijsmuller
200	1974		DFDS DFDS DFDS is a Danish shipping company. It is one of the world's largest ferry operators. The companies name is an acronym of Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab DFDS is a Danish shipping company. It is one of the world's largest ferry operators. The companies name is an acronym of Det Forenede...
210	1978		DFDS
213	1976	Holger Danske	Danish State Railways
214	1977	St Columba MS Masarrah The MS Masarrah is a ferry originally named St. Columba. Built in 1977, at the Aalborg Shipyard in Denmark, St. Columba was originally a Sealink UK ferry, operating between Holyhead and Dun Laoghaire in the Irish Sea. It now operates between Piraeus and Santorini for Namma Shipping Lines.- Fire :On...	Sealink Sealink Sealink was a ferry company based in the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1984, operating services to France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Channel Islands, Isle of Wight and Ireland....
220	1977	Goliath Carl	Svitzer Wijsmuller
240	1981	Goliath Goelen	Svitzer Wijsmuller
234	1982	MS Tropicale	Carnival Cruise Lines Carnival Cruise Lines Carnival Cruise Lines is a British-American owned cruise line, based in Doral, Florida, a suburb of Miami in the United States. Originally an independent company founded in 1972 by Ted Arison, the company is now one of eleven cruise ship brands owned and operated by Carnival Corporation & plc...
245	1983	Arahura Arahura (ferry) DEV Arahura is a roll-on roll-off diesel-electric rail ferry built in 1982 for the New Zealand Railways Corporation. She remains in service on the Interislander route across the Cook Strait in New Zealand.-History:...	The Interislander
246	1985		Carnival Cruise Lines
249	1986

Closure

In 1988, the company was split into five new separate companies:

• Danyard Aalborg, part of Royal Denship
  Royal Denship
  Royal Denship was a Danish multi-facility conglomerate ship and yacht builder. Presently in administration, the company has created some of the worlds largest super yachts....
  
  
• Aalborg steelworks
• Aalborg Industries (Boilers)
• Norks Industrial Services (NIS)
• Danish Railway Club (Limfjord path)

In 2005 the former yard area was cleared, the only building surviving demolition the 1912 machine shop, while the dry dock

Dry dock

A drydock is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform...

continues yacht production, leased by Danyard Aalborg. Today, the former yard is covered with new home and office developments.