Nobiskrug
Encyclopedia
Nobiskrug Ltd. is a shipbuilding
company located on the Eider River
in Rendsburg
, Germany
, specializing in building luxury yacht
s. It is now a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi MAR
. The shipyard
currently employs some 400 people.
The name Nobiskrug is taken from the ancient land register designation for the site on which the shipyard is located. In mythology
, Nobiskrug means the last stop in this world on the way to the next. Linguist
s and historian
s categorise Nobiskrug as a name used in northern Germany for tavern
s, inn
s and public house
s.
Nobiskrug is a shipyard located at the Kiel Canal in Rendsburg/Germany. Nobiskrug stands for the dedication of true German craftsmanship to manufacture custom-built masterpieces from 60 m to 200 m.
With more than 100 years of experience in building naval and commercial vessels and its character of being a major player within the mega yacht market, Nobiskrug has demonstrated its expertise of extraordinary quality: uncompromisingly German.
Since summer 2009 Nobiskrug is part of Abu Dhabi Mar. This Group also owns the French shipyard CMN and ADM Shipyards in Abu Dhabi.
From 1905 Nobiskrug has successfully delivered more than 700 newbuilds and numerous conversions. Due to their long-standing shipbuilding tradition, the yard has earned an outstanding world-wide reputation as a competent and reliable partner.
Nobiskrug’s facilities in Rendsburg are an ideal place for newbuilds, repairs and refit of mega yachts and naval vessels. The two dry docks and the two slipways can accommodate vessels up to 200 m.
The superyacht hall is dedicated to the outfitting and coating of megayachts ensuring highest quality standards. Its partition bulkhead even allows for docking of a second yacht separately.
Furthermore, Nobiskrug also gives proof of its competence, productivity and high degree of flexibility by carrying out services and repairs with flying squads worldwide.
The 420 highly skilled employees are covering all important fields of competence and a nowadays rare workforce diversity granting the yard’s high expertise, flexibility and independence.
During the past 10 years, Nobiskrug made its special mark by building luxurious motor yachts from 60 m onwards. The first yacht built by Nobiskrug was MY “TATOOSH” (93 m), which was successfully finished in 2000. The second yacht MY “TRIPLE SEVEN” (68 m) won the highly renowned design Award of „International Superyacht Society” only a few months after her delivery in 2006. The last delivered super yacht MY “SIREN” (74 m) was welcomed by her owner in 2008. She combines a fresh and elegant exterior with a warm and modern interior style. She is rewarded with First prizes of the “World Superyacht Award” and “ShowBoats International Award for Best Custom Motor Yacht Interior 60 m and over” in 2009. Both “TRIPLE SEVEN” and “SIREN” were designed by the Hamburg-based yacht design office newcruise.
Currently Nobiskrug has five yachts under construction. Three mega yachts will be delivered to their Owners still this year.
, the shipyard had built a total of 70 vessels, mainly pontoons
, barge
s and lighter
s.
During the war, the company built a number of auxiliary ship
s for the Kaiserliche Marine
and started building minesweepers
. They also launched its first two cargo steamboat
s in 1917 for German owners.
Germany’s defeat in World War I temporarily halted the country’s export shipbuilding industry, but the company switched production to deep-sea fishing steamers and later, again, cargo steamers. In 1930 the company scored a major coup with contracts for a series of three-mast schooner
yachts.
During the period from 1935 to 1939, the shipyard supplied the German Ministry of Finance with three customs cruisers, the Nettelbeck, the York, and the Freiherr von Stein. Shortly before and during World War II
, the Kaiserliche Marine and Luftwaffe
placed orders with Nobiskrug for a range of auxiliary ships including several ocean-going tug
s and tanker
s.
During the immediate post-war years, the company concentrated on ship conversions and repairs. From 1945 to 1955 advanced in building larger vessels.
In 1963 the shipyard delivered the then highly sophisticated navy training ship Deutschland. One year later, Nobiskrug built its first ferry, the Prins Bertil. Four more ferries were built up until 1968. This period also saw the completion of a number of conventional freighters
and asphalt tankers as well as heavy goods and RoRo
vessels.
The early 1980s saw the construction of the research vessel Polarstern, and the diving support vessels Seabex One and Seaway Condor. In the mid-1980s the fortunes of the shipyard took a turn for the worse, leading ultimately to the verge of financial collapse in 1986.
Under these difficult circumstances, the yard lengthened the ocean cruise liner MS Berlin operated by Peter Deilmann Cruises
. This ship is known to German TV viewers as cruise line in the German version of the Love Boat
. The successful completion of this project was a sign of better things to come.
Nobiskrug was acquired in 1987 by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft and the shipyard was modernized into a compact shipyard, its maritime division specialising exclusively in repairs and conversions. Staffing levels were reduced dramatically, from more than 1,200 at the start of the 1980s to approximately 400.
In 1997 the shipyard supplied the forward half of the passenger ship MS Deutschland
and then began work on the mega-yacht Tatoosh
, which was completed in the summer of 2000.
Today Nobiskrug is part of the Abu Dhabi
MAR and its focus is the construction and conversion of mega-yachts.
Shipbuilding
Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and floating vessels. It normally takes place in a specialized facility known as a shipyard. Shipbuilders, also called shipwrights, follow a specialized occupation that traces its roots to before recorded history.Shipbuilding and ship repairs, both...
company located on the Eider River
Eider River
The Eider is the longest river of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The river starts near Bordesholm and reaches the southwestern outskirts of Kiel on the shores of the Baltic Sea, but flows to the west, ending in the North Sea...
in Rendsburg
Rendsburg
Rendsburg is a town on the River Eider and the Kiel Canal in the northeastern part of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the capital of the Kreis of Rendsburg-Eckernförde. As of 2006, it had a population of 28,476.-History:...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, specializing in building luxury yacht
Luxury yacht
The term luxury yacht, “Superyacht” and "Large Yacht" refers to very expensive, privately owned yachts which are professionally crewed. Also known as a Super Yacht, a luxury yacht may be either a sailing or motor yacht.-History:...
s. It is now a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi MAR
Abu Dhabi MAR
Abu Dhabi MAR is a holding company, founded in 2007 and based in Abu Dhabi, UAE. It is a shipbuilding group with an international presence and one of the leading shipbuilders in the Persian Gulf....
. The 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...
currently employs some 400 people.
The name Nobiskrug is taken from the ancient land register designation for the site on which the shipyard is located. In mythology
Mythology
The term mythology can refer either to the study of myths, or to a body or collection of myths. As examples, comparative mythology is the study of connections between myths from different cultures, whereas Greek mythology is the body of myths from ancient Greece...
, Nobiskrug means the last stop in this world on the way to the next. Linguist
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
s and historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
s categorise Nobiskrug as a name used in northern Germany for tavern
Tavern
A tavern is a place of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and be served food, and in some cases, where travelers receive lodging....
s, inn
INN
InterNetNews is a Usenet news server package, originally released by Rich Salz in 1991, and presented at the Summer 1992 USENIX conference in San Antonio, Texas...
s and public house
Public house
A public house, informally known as a pub, is a drinking establishment fundamental to the culture of Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. There are approximately 53,500 public houses in the United Kingdom. This number has been declining every year, so that nearly half of the smaller...
s.
Nobiskrug is a shipyard located at the Kiel Canal in Rendsburg/Germany. Nobiskrug stands for the dedication of true German craftsmanship to manufacture custom-built masterpieces from 60 m to 200 m.
With more than 100 years of experience in building naval and commercial vessels and its character of being a major player within the mega yacht market, Nobiskrug has demonstrated its expertise of extraordinary quality: uncompromisingly German.
Since summer 2009 Nobiskrug is part of Abu Dhabi Mar. This Group also owns the French shipyard CMN and ADM Shipyards in Abu Dhabi.
From 1905 Nobiskrug has successfully delivered more than 700 newbuilds and numerous conversions. Due to their long-standing shipbuilding tradition, the yard has earned an outstanding world-wide reputation as a competent and reliable partner.
Nobiskrug’s facilities in Rendsburg are an ideal place for newbuilds, repairs and refit of mega yachts and naval vessels. The two dry docks and the two slipways can accommodate vessels up to 200 m.
The superyacht hall is dedicated to the outfitting and coating of megayachts ensuring highest quality standards. Its partition bulkhead even allows for docking of a second yacht separately.
Furthermore, Nobiskrug also gives proof of its competence, productivity and high degree of flexibility by carrying out services and repairs with flying squads worldwide.
The 420 highly skilled employees are covering all important fields of competence and a nowadays rare workforce diversity granting the yard’s high expertise, flexibility and independence.
During the past 10 years, Nobiskrug made its special mark by building luxurious motor yachts from 60 m onwards. The first yacht built by Nobiskrug was MY “TATOOSH” (93 m), which was successfully finished in 2000. The second yacht MY “TRIPLE SEVEN” (68 m) won the highly renowned design Award of „International Superyacht Society” only a few months after her delivery in 2006. The last delivered super yacht MY “SIREN” (74 m) was welcomed by her owner in 2008. She combines a fresh and elegant exterior with a warm and modern interior style. She is rewarded with First prizes of the “World Superyacht Award” and “ShowBoats International Award for Best Custom Motor Yacht Interior 60 m and over” in 2009. Both “TRIPLE SEVEN” and “SIREN” were designed by the Hamburg-based yacht design office newcruise.
Currently Nobiskrug has five yachts under construction. Three mega yachts will be delivered to their Owners still this year.
History
Nobiskrug was founded in 1905 by Otto Stork. The company changed to a limited liability company (GmbH), November 12, 1908, and a canal expansion work brought a steady stream of waterway construction vessels to the shipyard for repairs and refits. By the start of World War IWorld War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
, the shipyard had built a total of 70 vessels, mainly pontoons
Pontoon (boat)
A pontoon is a flotation device with buoyancy sufficient to float itself as well as a heavy load. A pontoon boat is a flattish boat that relies on pontoons to float. Pontoons may be used on boats, rafts, barges, docks, floatplanes or seaplanes. Pontoons may support a platform, creating a raft. A...
, barge
Barge
A barge is a flat-bottomed boat, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods. Some barges are not self-propelled and need to be towed by tugboats or pushed by towboats...
s and lighter
Lighter (barge)
A lighter is a type of flat-bottomed barge used to transfer goods and passengers to and from moored ships. Lighters were traditionally unpowered and were moved and steered using long oars called "sweeps," with their motive power provided by water currents...
s.
During the war, the company built a number of auxiliary ship
Auxiliary ship
An auxiliary ship is a naval ship which is designed to operate in any number of roles supporting combatant ships and other naval operations. Auxiliaries are not primary combatants, although they may have some limited combat capacity, usually of a self defensive nature.Auxiliaries are extremely...
s for the Kaiserliche Marine
Kaiserliche Marine
The Imperial German Navy was the German Navy created at the time of the formation of the German Empire. It existed between 1871 and 1919, growing out of the small Prussian Navy and Norddeutsche Bundesmarine, which primarily had the mission of coastal defense. Kaiser Wilhelm II greatly expanded...
and started building minesweepers
Minesweeper (ship)
A minesweeper is a small naval warship designed to counter the threat posed by naval mines. Minesweepers generally detect then neutralize mines in advance of other naval operations.-History:...
. They also launched its first two cargo steamboat
Steamboat
A steamboat or steamship, sometimes called a steamer, is a ship in which the primary method of propulsion is steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels...
s in 1917 for German owners.
Germany’s defeat in World War I temporarily halted the country’s export shipbuilding industry, but the company switched production to deep-sea fishing steamers and later, again, cargo steamers. In 1930 the company scored a major coup with contracts for a series of three-mast schooner
Schooner
A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....
yachts.
During the period from 1935 to 1939, the shipyard supplied the German Ministry of Finance with three customs cruisers, the Nettelbeck, the York, and the Freiherr von Stein. Shortly before and during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, the Kaiserliche Marine and Luftwaffe
Luftwaffe
Luftwaffe is a generic German term for an air force. It is also the official name for two of the four historic German air forces, the Wehrmacht air arm founded in 1935 and disbanded in 1946; and the current Bundeswehr air arm founded in 1956....
placed orders with Nobiskrug for a range of auxiliary ships including several ocean-going tug
Tug
Tuğ is a village in the Khojavend Rayon of Azerbaijan....
s and tanker
Tanker (ship)
A tanker is a ship designed to transport liquids in bulk. Major types of tankship include the oil tanker, the chemical tanker, and the liquefied natural gas carrier.-Background:...
s.
During the immediate post-war years, the company concentrated on ship conversions and repairs. From 1945 to 1955 advanced in building larger vessels.
In 1963 the shipyard delivered the then highly sophisticated navy training ship Deutschland. One year later, Nobiskrug built its first ferry, the Prins Bertil. Four more ferries were built up until 1968. This period also saw the completion of a number of conventional freighters
Cargo ship
A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year; they handle the bulk of international trade...
and asphalt tankers as well as heavy goods and RoRo
RORO
Roll-on/roll-off ships are vessels designed to carry wheeled cargo such as automobiles, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, trailers or railroad cars that are driven on and off the ship on their own wheels...
vessels.
The early 1980s saw the construction of the research vessel Polarstern, and the diving support vessels Seabex One and Seaway Condor. In the mid-1980s the fortunes of the shipyard took a turn for the worse, leading ultimately to the verge of financial collapse in 1986.
Under these difficult circumstances, the yard lengthened the ocean cruise liner MS Berlin operated by Peter Deilmann Cruises
Peter Deilmann Cruises
Peter Deilmann Cruises is a German cruise company which has offered river cruises throughout Europe and several ocean cruises...
. This ship is known to German TV viewers as cruise line in the German version of the Love Boat
The Love Boat
The Love Boat is an American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from September 24,1977, until May 24,1986.The show starred Gavin MacLeod as the ship's captain...
. The successful completion of this project was a sign of better things to come.
Nobiskrug was acquired in 1987 by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft and the shipyard was modernized into a compact shipyard, its maritime division specialising exclusively in repairs and conversions. Staffing levels were reduced dramatically, from more than 1,200 at the start of the 1980s to approximately 400.
In 1997 the shipyard supplied the forward half of the passenger ship MS Deutschland
MS Deutschland (1998)
MS Deutschland is a German-registered cruise ship owned and operated by Peter Deilmann Cruises. She is decorated in the Art Deco style made famous by such classic ocean liners as the SS Ile de France and SS Normandie. The Deutschland was launched in 1998. She carries 513 passengers and 260 crew...
and then began work on the mega-yacht Tatoosh
Tatoosh (yacht)
Tatoosh is a 303-foot private yacht owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen, who also owns the 416-foot Octopus. She is now the world's 33rd largest superyacht.-History:...
, which was completed in the summer of 2000.
Today Nobiskrug is part of the Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi , literally Father of Gazelle, is the capital and the second largest city of the United Arab Emirates in terms of population and the largest of the seven member emirates of the United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the central western...
MAR and its focus is the construction and conversion of mega-yachts.