Oy Laivateollisuus Ab (LaTe) was a Finnish shipbuilding company located in Pansio, Turku. The company was founded in 1945 to serve Finnish war reparation industry and focused on wooden ships. The first vessels were a series of schooners, which were followed by other wooden vessels. The last wooden hulls were produced in 1958. The company continued producing wooden gluelam structures in parallel with shipbuilding.
Schooner Meridian during sea trial in September 1948.
Nuoli-class gunboat.
Norwegian research vessel Nordsyssel.
View on Laivateollisuus neighbourhood.
Finnish war reparations to the Soviet Union
War reparations of Finland to the Soviet Union were originally worth US$300,000,000 at 1938 prices. Finland agreed to pay the reparations in the Moscow Armistice signed on 19 September 1944. The protocol to determine more precisely the war reparations to the Soviet Union was signed in December 1944, by the prime minister Juho Kusti Paasikivi and the chairman of the Allied Control Commission for controlling the Moscow Armistice in Helsinki, Andrei Zhdanov.
Tampella steam engines being delivered as war reparations
Celebration of the final Finnish war reparations deliveries in the Exhibition Hall in Helsinki on September 23, 1952. Finnish president J. K. Paasikivi is sitting in the middle of the first row.
Loading of the last war reparation train at Kone Ltd's workshop in Hyvinkää 28.8.1952
