Sandvikens Skeppsdocka och Mekaniska Verkstad
Hietalahti shipyard area in 1908. | |
Native name | Swedish: Aktiebolaget Sandvikens Skeppsdocka och Mekaniska Verkstad Finnish: Osakeyhtiö Hietalahden Sulkutelakka ja Konepaja |
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| Company type | osakeyhtiö |
| Industry | shipbuilding |
| Predecessor | Helsingfors Skeppsdocka |
| Founded | 25 October 1895 in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland |
| Founders | J. C. Burmeister Edvin Bergroth Alfred Norrmén Theodor Tallqvist Paul Sinebrychoff Theodor Stude A. Einighorst Victor Ek |
| Defunct | 1938 |
| Fate | amalgamated into Wärtsilä |
| Successor | Wärtsilä Hietalahti Shipyard |
| Headquarters | Hietalahti, Helsinki , |
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Aktiebolaget Sandvikens Skeppsdocka och Mekaniska Verkstad (Finnish: Osakeyhtiö Hietalahden Sulkutelakka ja Konepaja; 'Hietalahti Shipyard and Engineering Works Ltd.') was a Finnish shipbuilding and engineering company that operated in Helsinki in 1895–1938. The company was set up to continue shipbuilding at Hietalahti shipyard, after its predecessor Helsingfors Skeppsdocka, which operated the yard in 1865–1895, had bankrupted.
The company portfolio consisted of the building and repairing of ships and the production of tram and railway wagons, boilers, steam and combustion engines, winches and other products. Before and during the First World War the main customers were the Imperial Russian Navy and the Finnish State Railways. Following the Finnish Declaration of Independence in 1917, the Finnish Civil War broke out in 1918. The yard was closed until the Red Guards had left the city.
Due to recession in shipbuilding the company owners decided to sell the shares to another Helsinki engineering company, Kone- ja Siltarakennus in 1926. In 1935 Kone- ja Siltarakennus was taken over by Wärtsilä, which amalgamated Hietalahti Shipyard and Engineering Works into its own organisation. The yard continued operating under the name Wärtsilä Hietalahti Shipyard after that.