Lemwerder is a municipality in the district of Wesermarsch , in Lower Saxony , Germany . It is on the left bank of the Weser , approximately 27 kilometres (17 mi) east of Oldenburg , and 17 kilometres (11 mi) northwest of the centre of Bremen .
6-533: Since April 2021, Lemwerder has been governed by Mayor Christina Winkelmann. The shipbuilding companies Lürssen and Abeking & Rasmussen both have shipyards in Lemwerder that specialise in the construction of superyachts . [REDACTED] Media related to Lemwerder at Wikimedia Commons This Wesermarsch district location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Abeking %26 Rasmussen Abeking & Rasmussen ( A&R )
12-525: A varnished hull, the 11.4 m saling yacht Barbarella , in 1981. The shipyard's own cost–benefit analysis showed the continued building of smaller yachts to be impracticable, consequently it has concentrated on the exclusive market of superyachts. Among those the yard has built since is the Bruce King-designed ketch Hetairos , now Asgard (42 m LOA), a 230-ton centreboarder with a cold-moulded hull made of African khaya and sipo mahogany. Fitted with
18-456: A yacht designer himself. Rasmussen built his first sailing yacht , a vessel called Frisia in the 5-metre class, for himself in the initial year of the Abeking & Rasmussen yard's operation. In its early years, the yard worked for the private, commercial and military sectors, building wooden sailing yachts and motor yachts , together with patrol boats and other specialised vessels. In 1928,
24-611: Is a shipyard situated in Lemwerder , near Bremen in the German state of Lower Saxony . The shipyard is on the left bank of the River Weser , and currently comprises five production halls with associated workshops and offices, an inner harbour and a syncrolift . The business was founded in 1907 by Georg Abeking and Henry Rasmussen. Abeking, mechanical engineer at the Nordseewerke yard in
30-556: The harbour of the north German city of Emden , was a friend of Rasmussen and became his partner. With the support of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg , a sailing enthusiast, Abeking and Rasmussen founded their yacht- and shipyard at Lemwerder on the south side of the Weser, opposite the small town of Vegesack . Rasmussen, who idolised American yacht designer Nathanael Herreshoff , was known as a talented yacht skipper and proved to be equally adept as
36-555: The yard began building Starling Burgess ' Atlantic one-design; at this time, the post-war economy made European-built boats attractive in the United States. Today the yard continues to construct a similar spread of vessels, building yachts alongside naval vessels , pilot boats and similar ships. The yard is particularly well known for a number of superyachts , and for its work in the development of small-waterplane-area twin hull (SWATH) ships. A&R built its last yacht with
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