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Shipbuilding, the other half of Hamburg's prosperity, was also flattened by the war. The mammoth Blohm & Voss shipyards were carted away as reparations after 1945. Today the remaining yards have a capacity of 70,000 tons (those of all other German ports combined, 60,000 tons), but there is little solid business...
More & more accounts agreed that one city at least has been really pulverized: Hamburg. Attacks on that vital city in May gutted the huge shipyards of Blohm & Voss, which in peacetime built the Europa, Majestic, Leviathan, Kungsholm, many other giants, and against war built the Bismarck and many destroyers.* In town the Stock Exchange, the Deutsche Bank, the Industriepalast, the Defaka Department Store, the Carl Schultze Theater were among buildings completely burned or knocked down. One of the principal business streets, Möckebergstrasse, was once closed to traffic for three days. Civilian casualties have been high: in some cases...
...length only by the British royal yacht Victoria and Albert and the Italian royal yacht Savoia, in tonnage by only the Victoria and Albert. Designed like a fast transatlantic passenger ship, carrying a crew of 83, she was built at a cost of $2,000,000 in the Blohm & Voss shipyards of Hamburg...
...Yawuz Sultan Selim slid down the ways of the Hamburg ship- builders Blohm & Voss (builders of the Europa) as the German battle cruiser Goeben. ?Speedy, heavily armored, with innumerable watertight compartments, she was as far ahead of her time as Germany's latest 1931 warship, the pocket battleship Deutschland. At the beginning of the War she slipped through the British and French Mediterranean squadrons to Constantinople, where she was nominally attached to the Turkish Navy as the Sultan Selim...
Slightly more powerful and of slightly greater draft than the Bremen (product of Bremen's Weser shipyards) is the Europa (built by Hamburg's Blohm & Voss. builders also of the Leviathan, Majestic and Berengaria, all seized from Germany after the War). But to the casual eye the speediest sisters are exact twins, externally...