Most of the buildings were projected on the west side of the terrain. The plan included a sketch for the location of the buildings and machinery, and in more detail the location of drydock basin. In fall 1901 father and son De Gelder had started the design of the shipyard on Heijplaat. de Gelder, former chief of the Dutch East Indies 'Waterstaat'. de Gelder, chief of the technical service of Bureau Veritas did accept. He did not want to become the new CEO, but his brother Ir. He had written a brochure that advocated the need for a modern drydock company west of the railway bridges over the Meuse. de Gelder working as an engineer in Kinderdijk. The shipyard on Heijplaat įor the CEO position the supervisory board wanted to have W. On 1 March 1902 it subsequently decided to liquidate De Maas. The supervisory board accepted the offer of the consortium of 207 shares in De Maas and the terrain on Heijplaat for 101,400 guilders. van der Sleyden former minister of Rijkswaterstaat and L.W. The supervisory board of the RDM consisted of: H. The company would have 1,000,000 guilders capital in 1,000 shares.

Finally on 23 January 1902 a contract that established the Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij was signed. The consortium then had to get commitment for all its shares, which was quite a challenge. On 10 June 1899 the consortium decided to built a floating drydock for ships of up to 12,000 tons displacement. The plan of the consortium was to end De Maas and then to transfer the assets to the new company. This way the consortium became the dominant force in the shareholders meeting of De Maas. It got more than 200 shares of De Maas at 25%, and the terrain on the Heijplaat became a common possession. shipping line, the consortium pursued its goals. It had two goals: First to try to continue the company De Maas, Second, to run one or more drydocks. On 14 April 1899 a consortium was founded by people connected to the harbor of Rotterdam and the company De Maas. On 14 February 1899 it therefore bought 4.5 hectares of land in Heijplaat, south of the Meuse for 44,000 guilders.Ī consortium for a drydock company This company would have to move in 1905 because the lease on the land would end that year. Shipbuilder De Maas was located in an area that is now the Saint Job's harbor (Sint Jobshaven) of Rotterdam.

The Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij was a successor of the company De Maas, founded in Delfshaven in 1856 by Duncan Christie. During its existence, the wharf operated 12 floating docks and in its heyday employed 7,000 people at one time. It built 355 mostly major seagoing vessels, 18 of which were submarines. The Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij ( RDM) was the largest pre-World War II shipbuilding and repair company in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, existing from 1902 to 1996. Office of Rotterdamse Droogdokmaatschappij

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