Dockstavarvet 100 years 1905 – 2005
| Looking back at 100 years of uninterrupted operation as a family owned business, the development from the modest start in 1905 is dramatic.
“Today”, explains Mr Sundin “we have gained a know-how which is based on long term cooperation and feed-back from customers operating under the most demanding professional conditions world-wide. This knowledge goes straight back into all new projects and our Pilot Boats and Police/Patrol Craft are at the forefront of what you find on the market today.” |
 K-A Sundin, Managing Director, Dockstavarvet |
Summary of the most important and characteristic steps during a decade
| 1905 | The family company started by Nils Sundin. A small workshop was established |
| 1906 | First order, a fishing boat for a local fisherman |
| 1916 | First wooden-hulled Pilot Cutter delivered |
| 1920-1935 | Serial production of lifeboats for merchant marine |
| 1926-1958 | 20 wooden-hulled Pilot Cutters delivered to local pilots in Gulf of Bothnia |
| 1937-1938 | Prestige orders; a 12.8 m Petterson-design pleasure launch and an 11.2 m coastal cruiser |
| 1940-1945 | Serial production of lifeboats and workboats for the Royal Swedish Navy |
| 1945-1958 | Production of knock-down-kits for small road ferries and assembly on site |
| 1950-1965 | Phasing out of wood and pleasure craft and transfer to steel, aluminium and workboats |
| 1957 | First steel Pilot Cutter delivered |
| 1960 | The second generation, Karl Sundin takes over. New slipway and workshop constructed |
| 1967 | Solitude, the biggest yacht built in Sweden after WW II, a 22 meter steel-hulled motor-sailor |
| 1969 | The first newbuild in aluminium, a fast launch for the Swedish Coast Guard |
| 1975 | The third generation, Karl-Anders, Torsten and Per Sundin takes over |
| 1975-1986 | Serial production of Pilot Boats for the Swedish Maritime Administration |
| 1980 | First export order, a workboat for Tanesco, Tanzania |
| 1989 | The first two prototypes of CB 90 H for the Royal Swedish Navy |
| 1991-2003 | Delivery of 147 Combat Boats for the Royal Swedish Navy |
| 1992-2004 | 20 Pilot Boats for Denmark |
| 1996-1999 | 16 Combat Boats for the Royal Norwegian Navy |
| 1999-2001 | 40 Combat Boats for the Mexican Navy |
| 1999-2001 | 14 Combat Boats for Royal Malaysian Navy |
| 2002 | Interceptor 15 M prototype ENFORCER II built for own account as demonstrator |
| 2002-2004 | License Production in Mexico (8 x CB 90 H) and Malaysia (4 x IC 16 M) |
| 2004 | IC 16 M Security Interceptor delivered to Russia |
| 2005 | IC 16 M in production for Mexico and 4 x ALUPILOT 14000 for Denmark |