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History of Vulcan Shipyard
Vulcan Shipyard mainly served the German Imperial Navy and was responsible for the production of U-shaped submarines and warships, which played a very important role in the two world wars. In addition, they also exported blueprints to other countries, such as Russian Norvik class destroyers, Russian Norvik class destroyers and Pamyat Merkuriya light cruisers.

During World War II, the only aircraft carrier in Germany, Graf Zeppelin, had a displacement of about 33,000 tons. 1on February 2, 943, Hitler ordered the cancellation of the construction of all German warships, cruisers and aircraft carriers. The Count Zeppelin was sent to Stetin (now Szczecin) at the mouth of the Oder River for demolition. 1945 At the end of April, when the Soviet Red Army approached Stedding, the Germans took the initiative to sink the Count Zeppelin in order not to fall into the hands of the enemy, but the Soviet Union salvaged the sunken ship in 1946, and the last place to witness the ship was Swinnde (now Svenoch, Poland). winouj? Cie), when the ship was loaded with some materials and was ready to go to Leningrad, but it disappeared without a trace. On July 12, 2006, a ship belonging to Petrobaltic, a Polish oil company, was in the port of Veba (? A 265-meter-long sunken ship was found near Iba, which coincided with the missing captain of Count Zeppelin. On July 26, the Polish naval research ship ORP Arctowski actually conducted an in-depth investigation on the sunken ship to determine its identity. The Polish navy announced the next day that the sunken ship, which sank at a depth of 87 meters, proved to be the Count Zeppelin whose whereabouts had been a mystery for many years.

After World War II, the whole enterprise and shipbuilding facilities of Vulcan Shipyard were taken over by the Polish government. The new shipyard was restarted at the original site, and it was named Shiqieqing Shipyard.