page_title: Öresundsvarvet
section_title: Foundation
hierarchical_section_title: Öresundsvarvet / Foundation
caption_attribution_description: English: The Swedish destroyer HMS Munin, later rebuilt as frigate.
context_page_description: Öresundsvarvet was a Swedish shipyard in Landskrona that was established in 1915 and largely phased out between 1980 and 1982.
context_section_description: Öresundsvarvet was constituted on 16 December 1915 by Gothenburg shipbuilder, Arthur Du Rietz. During a visit to Landskrona, Du Rietz heard that the city wanted to complement its industry with a shipyard. The authorities suggested an area alongside the harbor called Sydpiren, which was then under water. Du Rietz was contracted to build a shipyard with two slipways on a 50,000-square-metre (540,000 sq ft) plot, 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) above sea level. The city committed to provide a 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) long railway embankment and a 50-metre (160 ft) berth. Du Rietz pledged to immediately then build a shipyard with two slipways. Construction began in 1916 and included a large dry dock 189.4 metres (621 ft) in length. 
  As World War One wasn't resolved in "a few months" (which was the general assumption by most people in the summer of 1914), there was a period of an increasing demand, both for more vessels in general, as well as an equal demand of more modern ships. By November 1918, Öresundsvarvet was already more than well ready to continue delivering various kinds of vessels. But after the 1918 Armistice, which ended the war, the number of ordered ships began to decrease. Despite this decrease, the shipyard survived and better times was to come.
caption: Munin
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