Paul Lindenau settled in 1919 at an old dockyard's site at "Süderhuk" on the left river-bank situated directly at the Dange river's mouth. Until the end of the 19th century was that the place where several shipbuilders had built more than a hundred sailing ships, some thereof quite big. Several other types became built here too, and nearly 30 sailing ships and steamers were repaired in the years 1877-1880 for example.
In 1896 Heinrich Grosz wrote about a set of 15 fishery cutters, which in the years 1889-1894 were built in this dockyard in Memel: "For such fishery cutters Memel's ship-carpenter cooperative charged only 1400 marks each, a reasonable price at considering the good material, the durable construction, the excellent handling of these vessels, and the lots of equipment of them. The cutters crew was 2 - 3 men."

On June 1st 1890 the site was bought by Memel's ship-carpenter cooperative, which had been founded in 1875. The owner until then had been the 1873 founded "General German ship-carpenter cooperative".

Shipyard in 1888

Within few years after Lindenau shipyard's founding the staff grew to more than 300 persons. Besides the facilities for the construction of ships of wood and iron became developed a project and construction department, a smithy, a foundry, joiner's workshop, a power station for own uses, and other special departments.
Later - in the year 1939 - the number of the dockyard's employees amounted to about 600, and had increased 1944 to about 900.

Shipbuilding in the 1920th.