The story
The shipyard was founded in 1922, initially building small coastal vessels. The construction of its first large ship, SS Olza, was interrupted by the outbreak of World War II.
During the German occupation, the shipyard was taken over by Deutsche Werke company and used to repair warships. Later in the war it built sections of Type XXI U-boats.
After sustaining bombing damage during World War II the shipyard was rebuilt and expanded. In 1963, its first dry dock was finished, with dimensions 240 × 40 m. A second drydock with dimensions 380 × 70 m was finished in 1976.
In 2000 and 2001, the shipyard received six ship-building orders from Gearbulk Holdings Ltd., three of which were not subsequently fulfilled. The contracts included provision for repayments in the event of each contract being terminated, but a legal dispute arose between Stocznia Gdynia and Gearbulk which centred on whether a purchaser can rely on repayment provisions within a contract at the same time as accepting the repudiation of the contract.
From Wikipedia’s article on Stocznia Gdynia, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3