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Our web page will be updated and trans- lated continuously, but some pages may still be in Danish until we have them translated. The latest update is 10th March 2010. April 2007 - Our home page in English 29th March 2007 - New general meeting 16th November 2006 - General meeting 23rd August 2006 - Inquiry 20th May 2006 - Open day at the slipway 25th October 2005 - General meeting September 2005 - We have bought a shipyard 21st-22nd May 2005 - Exhibition, Ships and Pilots
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Danish Shipbuilding has been one of the main cornerstones in Danish Industry.
Today, shipbuilding is just a shadow of what it used to be. Just one of the many large, new shipbuilding yards is left as all the rest have closed down.
For more than 130 years, shipbuilding has been the foundation for the town of Frederikshavn and its development, but today there are only 3 yards left in the municipality. One is a steel shipbuilding yard and the other two are wooden shipbuilding yards. From being an industry with thousands of jobs, we can count only a few hundred employees in the industry today.
We would like to dwell a little on this story, which tells so much about ships, craftsmanship and traditions, not because we want to re-live the past but because there is something we can be proud of. We ought to be proud of what our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents did and what they have done to make it possible for us to have a safe existence while growing up.
We cannot live by just renovating old ships, but we can learn from it. We cannot live by having a shipbuilding museum, but we can learn from it.
Please help us to take the old traditions, the old craftsmanship and the old ships into the future.
Even if we say so ourselves, our home page is not so bad. We will never be finished with it, as we consider it a living book, where we will add what we find out about the shipyard, the town, the ships, the tools used and shipbuilding constantly.
Today, shipbuilding is just a shadow of what it used to be. Just one of the many large, new shipbuilding yards is left as all the rest have closed down.
For more than 130 years, shipbuilding has been the foundation for the town of Frederikshavn and its development, but today there are only 3 yards left in the municipality. One is a steel shipbuilding yard and the other two are wooden shipbuilding yards. From being an industry with thousands of jobs, we can count only a few hundred employees in the industry today.
We would like to dwell a little on this story, which tells so much about ships, craftsmanship and traditions, not because we want to re-live the past but because there is something we can be proud of. We ought to be proud of what our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents did and what they have done to make it possible for us to have a safe existence while growing up.
We cannot live by just renovating old ships, but we can learn from it. We cannot live by having a shipbuilding museum, but we can learn from it.
Please help us to take the old traditions, the old craftsmanship and the old ships into the future.
Even if we say so ourselves, our home page is not so bad. We will never be finished with it, as we consider it a living book, where we will add what we find out about the shipyard, the town, the ships, the tools used and shipbuilding constantly.