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Lürssen

Frigates
F 122	DE
F 123	DE
F 124	DE
F 125	DE
Multi Role Light Frigate	project
Corvettes
K 130	DE
CM 65 Muray Jib	UAE
FPB 62 Manama	BH
Victory	SG
OPVs
OPV 60	project
PV 80	BN
OPV 85	project
OPV 90	project
Patrol Boats
FIB 25
PB 28
CSB 40
Fast Patrol Boats
FPB 28
FPB 38
FPB 41
FPB 44
FPB 62 (Kilic)
Istiqlal
Missile Boat MB 60
PV 37
S143 Alpha
TNC 35	..
TNC 45	..
Fleet support vessels
Typ 745 MPV	DE
Typ 748 MPV	DE
Typ 404 ELBE Tender	DE
Typ 702 EGV	DE

The Lürssen family has been operating Lürssen Shipyards for four generations and more than 135 years. Today, the company designs and builds ships of the highest quality for demanding customers all over the world. Lürssen has earned the experience and expertise required to create vessels that meet virtually any set of individual wishes and different demands. The legendary quality of Lürssen stands for satisfied customers and ships that can be completely relied on in any situation. As a traditional owner-operated company in family hands, Lürssen is fully free of obligation to external stakeholders. Lürssen's greatest responsibility is to the quality of its products.

This independence, which is unique in the international market, is highly important to customers. Lürssen is free in the choice of technologies and systems to be integrated into ships. That means Lürssen can fulfil customer wishes for specific solutions from domestic or international providers without difficulty. The benefits to customers: performance, quality, security and reliable planning.

With the construction of yachts in sizes ofmore than 150 m in length, Luerssen has evolved to a worldwide premier address for the construction and repair of mega yachts, whichare specifically built and tailored to the wishes of the owner. Based on the wishes of the customers, Luerssen collaborates with the best designers in the whole world. They support the shipbuilders, engineers and naval architects with Luerssen in order to realize the most creative and best design solutions.

To ensure maximum certainty throughout all levels of construction, Lürssen bases customer-specific solutions on tested and proven platforms, which undergo continuous further development. In all activities, Lürssen can rely on long-term partner companies and contractors operating under license in 15 countries. At locations all over the world, Lürssen is constantly expanding this international network. This way, Lürssen ensures availability to clients – anywhere, anytime.

Luerssen has production plants at Lemwerder, Bremen-Aumund, Bardenfleth, Wilhelmshaven, and Rendsburg (all in Germany). These shipyards are fitted out with sheltered docks and covered floating docks, which allows weather-independent construction or the maintenance and overhaul of ships up to frigate sizes. In addition to the five production plants there are service stations all over the world.

No other shipyard in the international market has developed, built and delivered so many ships to so many countries. On 27 June 1875, Friedrich Lürssen sets up his own boatbuilding workshop in Aumund, near Bremen, in northern Germany. The 24-year-old has grown up with close ties to shipbuilding and the sea – in a region shaped by inland and maritime seafaring since medieval times. The trained boatbuilder demonstrates his trademarks with his first vessels: originality and high-quality craftsmanship. These two qualities lay the foundation for the future success of the Lürssen Company. Lürssen initially only builds racing rowboats for Bremen oarsmen, but orders are increasingly coming in from all over Germany. The word spreads that Lürssen boats are not only beautifully designed, but also outstanding in precise workmanship and quality – and thanks to their lightweight construction, they are very fast and place well in regattas.

In 1886 Lürssen built the world’s first motorboat. The 6-meter REMS is commissioned by the inventor and engine manufacturer Gottlieb Daimler, who needs a boat to put his new engine through its paces. Friedrich Lürssen, always open to new ideas, designs and builds it without delay. The Daimler engine that powers it has a displacement of 0.462 litres, weighs 60 kilograms, and has an output 1.5 hp at 700 rpm.

In 1917, to minimise risk when entering occupied ports or attacking heavily armored ships, the Kaiser’s navy relies on remote-controlled boats, co-developed and built by Lürssen. In 1925, there were two milestones in one year: Lürssen builds its 10,000th vessel, a 14-meter wooden motor yacht. In addition, the company celebrates its 50th anniversary. In 1927, Lürssen developed a 21-meter prototype patrol boat for the German navy. It is more stable than competitor vessels and reaches a top speed of 33.5 knots. A further development of LUER, the 27-meter S1, is launched in 1930. The speedboat is powered by three 12-cylinder engines with a total output of 2,700 horse power and a top speed of 34 knots. It is armed with two torpedoes and a machine gun.

In 1940 Lürssen delivered more than 20 fast patrol boats to the German navy. The country’s military leadership raised the demand to 40 units per year. Business is difficult in the wake of the war. Everyone has to start from scratch and the Lürssen shipyard is no exception.

With the JAGUAR, developed for the German navy in 1959, Lürssen sets the standard for fast patrol boats in the postwar period. At 42 meters, the ships are larger than those built during World War II. They serve as a model for future fast patrol boat designs. In 1976 Lürssen began delivering a total of ten fast attack craft to the German navy. By taking over the Burmester Werft shipyard in nearby Bremen-Burg in 1979, Lürssen acquired the expertise of a long-established shipyard specialised in building boats, yachts, and special-purpose vessels. In the winter of 1985/86, the last production facilities in Bremen Vegesack are torn down. The transfer of shipbuilding work to Lemwerder, which has been increasing since 1980, is completed. With the takeover of the Kröger Werft, on the Kiel Canal near Rendsburg, Lürssen gains a long-established shipyard that goes on to specialise in building ships of between 60 and 90 meters in length. Refits are also undertaken at this location.

The corvette VICTORY was delivered to the Singaporean navy in 1988 as the leading ship in a class of six corvettes. Due to its stealth design, the ship is difficult for enemy vessels to detect. It is also characterised by low underwater noise emissions. The FPB 62-class corvettes were designed to perform anti-surface warfare (ASuW) with self-defense anti-air warfare (AAW) capability and secondary anti-submarine warfare (ASW) using an helicopter. Bahrain commissioned two of these vessels in 1988, known as CM 62 or Al Manama-class. In the similar CM 65 or Murray Jip class helicopter corvettes delivered in 1990, the UAE took possession in 1990 of two complex naval vessels equipped not only with helicopter landing pads, but also with an extremely extensive array of weapons systems and sensor technology not usually seen in ships of this size.

In 1997 Lürssen acquired the company Bremer Vulkan MarinetechnikThe facility is equipped with a large dry dock that allows construction and repair of ships up to 170 meters in length. The BERLIN, one of the key task force vessels, is delivered to the German Navy in 2000. This highly important vessel type ensures the ability of the entire fleet to perform in action.

Lürssen purchased the Neue Jadewerft shipyard in Wilhelmshaven on the German North Sea coast in 2006. It specialised in naval vessels and also in maintenance, repair, and conversion work on ships up to 150 meters in length. The CONSORTIUM F125 received the contract for four frigates of the class F125 in 2007. The shipbuilding and steel construction company Berne GmbH & Co. KG acquired the former construction facilities and staff of Detlef Hegemann Rolandwerft GmbH & Co. KG and becomes part of Lürssen in 2010.

Over 125 MCMVs were built or converted for the German Navy. Of these, the Luerssen Group has delivered 67 boats: Minesweepers of the SCHUETZE, LINDAU, ARIADNE, and FRAUENLOB classes; conversions of the LINDAU class to mine hunting boats and drone control ships; 15 of the 22 new boats were of non-magnetic steel. Two of these units meanwhile were handed over to the Navy of the United Arab Emirates.

The Lürssen Group continued to grow. With a workforce of more than 1400 people in 2011, the company looked back on an exciting shipbuilding history, including two jubilee anniversaries in 2011: the launch of the world’s first motorboat – Lürssen REMS – 125 years ago and the company’s new beginning after World War II, 65 years ago.