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| | Blohm und Voss: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Blohm und Voss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | On April 5, 1877, Hermann Blohm and Ernst Voss founded the Blohm+Voss Schiffswerft und Maschinenfabrik shipbuilding and engineering works as a general partnership. |
 | | A shipyard was built on the island of Kuhwerder[?], near the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, covering 1½ hectares, with a quarter-kilometer of water frontage and three building berths, two suitable for ships of up to 100 meters length. |
 | | From about 1930 to 1945 the Blohm und Voss company also designed and built aircraft for use by both the German state airline, Lufthansa, and the air-force, Luftwaffe. |
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