Lürssen

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Lürssen (or Lürssen Werft) is a German shipbuilding based in Bremen-Vegesack/Lemwerder. Lürssen designs and constructs motoryachts, 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

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

Gallery

Yachts

Image:Octopus on 2005 05 13.jpg|Octopus Image:Rising Sun Yacht.JPG|Rising Sun Image:Pelorus.JPG|Pelorus

Naval ships

Image:Schnellboote Jaguar-Klasse im Hafen.jpg|Jaguar class Image:Minenjagdboot Grömitz.JPG|Frankenthal class

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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.

External links

• [Official homepage]

 

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