In collaboration with the University of Hanover and the HDW Kiel shipyard, multi-torch bevel aggregates were used for the first time in the "Shipbuilding 2000" project in 1993.
The Muraena gun is a mast-mounted gun system for submarines proposed by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft.
SS Selma (1921) was a 1,746 ton cargo ship launched on 17 June 1921, by Howaldtswerke in Kiel, Germany.
Stülcken was rather unexperienced with naval shipbuilding, but got the order, since the shipyards traditionally building warships for the German navies like Blohm + Voss, Howaldtswerke or Lürssen were all occupied constructing commercial vessels (no naval ship had been built in Germany since World War II).
The company was bought in 2002 by a group of German investors under the industrial leadership of the German shipyard Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW), later a subsidiary of the German ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems.
The ship was built in 2002 as MS Superfast IX by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW) in Kiel, Germany for Attica Group's subsidiary Superfast Ferries.
The company supplies manufacturers in the aerospace, wind energy, automotive, and marine industries, including Bombardier Aerospace, General Motors, NASA, Nordex, Lotus Renault GP, and Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW).