Lürssen

Infobox Company
company_name = Lürssen GmbH
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company_type = GmbH
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foundation = 1875
founder = Friedrich Lürssen
location_city = Bremen-Vegesack
location_country = Germany
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industry = Shipbuilding
products = Yachts
Naval ships
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divisions = Fr. Lürssen Werft
Lürssen Logistics
Lürssen Yachts
Lürssen Rendsburg
Lürssen Bardenfleth
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company_slogan = "My firm shall be known as the leader in both quality and performance." (Friedrich Lürssen, 1875)
homepage = [http://www.lurssen.com www.lurssen.com]
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Lürssen (or Lürssen Werft) is a German shipbuilding company based in Bremen-Vegesack.

Lürssen designs and constructs yachts, naval ships and special vessels. Trading as Lürssen Yachts, it is one of the leading builders of custom superyachts such as Paul Allen's Octopus and Larry Ellison's Rising Sun, the largest privately owned yacht in the world.

Naval ships built by Lürssen include:
* Many E boats of World War II
* Jaguar class fast attack craft
* Seeadler class fast attack craft
* Zobel class fast attack craft
* Tiger class fast attack craft
* Frankenthal class mine hunter
* Kılıç class fast attack missile corvette

Lürssen is currently also involved with the building of Braunschweig class corvettes and is part of the ARGE F125 joint-venture designing the F125 class frigate.

Gallery

Yachts

Warships

Trivia

"Lursen-S" was the name of a Soviet counter-espionage operation of the late 1940s/early 1950s that infiltrated and compromised "Operation Jungle", an MI6 program that used Lürssen E-boats to insert British-trained Baltic agents into the Soviet Union.

ee also

* E-boat

External links

* [http://www.lurssen.com Official homepage]
* [http://www.luerssen.de/en/frameset.naval.html List of Naval vessels as built by Lurssen GmbH]
* [http://www.superyachttimes.com/yachts/search/?name=&yacht_type=0&min_length=&max_length=&year_from=&year_to=&shipyard=36&country=0&hull=&designer=0 Yachts built by Lürssen] - SYT
* [http://video.images-de-prestige.com/yachts.php?com=Lurssen Some Lurssen's yachts videos]