Manufacturer catalog

Stocznia Północna

Stocznia Północna was the Gdańsk shipyard known in English as Northern Shipyard and now operating as Remontowa Shipbuilding S.A. The yard traces its roots to postwar Shipyard No. 3, took the Northern Shipyard name in 1950, and became a major Polish producer of naval, hydrographic, rescue, training, landing, and intelligence-ship hulls for Warsaw Pact and export customers.

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Official Remontowa Shipbuilding history identifies the yard's beginning as the 1945 establishment of Shipyard No. 3, whose early work covered wagons, tramways, and small ships. The same chronology records the 1950 change to Northern Shipyard, a 1951 shift away from wagon work, and a 1955 move into special vessels and warships for the navies of Poland, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and East Germany.

Cold War naval references connect Stocznia Północna to several catalog-relevant Soviet naval systems. Project 864 Vishnya-class intelligence ships were built at the Gdańsk yard in the 1980s, while Project 861 hydrographic hulls from the same yard formed the basis for later Project 861M Moma-class intelligence ships. GlobalSecurity also describes the Polnocny landing-ship family as named for the Northern Shipyard and says early ships were laid down at Stocznia Polnocna in Gdańsk.

The corporate line continued after the Cold War. Remontowa Shipbuilding's public history says the yard became a joint-stock company wholly owned by the Polish State Treasury in 1993, had shares acquired by Gdańsk Ship Repair Yard Remontowa S.A. in 2003, and changed its name to Remontowa Shipbuilding in 2011. The modern site describes Remontowa Shipbuilding as part of Remontowa Holding and lists current design, shipbuilding, repair, and strategic-goods licensing capabilities.

Naval shipbuildingIntelligence and hydrographic vesselsLanding ships and amphibious vesselsSpecial-purpose vesselsShip repair, conversion, and outfitting

Notable Systems

Vishnya class (Project 864) intelligence ship, Signals intelligence collection ship class, Naval Systems

Vishnya class (Project 864) intelligence ship

Signals intelligence collection ship class

RussianShips.info lists seven completed Project 864 / Vishnya medium intelligence ships built at Stocznia Polnocna in Gdańsk, and the Priazovye ship history identifies a Project 864 hull laid down at the yard in April 1986.

Sources: RussianShips.info: Project 864 medium intelligence ships, KCHF.ru: Priazovye Project 864 intelligence ship
Project 861M Moma-class intelligence ship, Electronic intelligence ship, Naval Systems

Project 861M Moma-class intelligence ship

Electronic intelligence ship

Project 861M intelligence ships were converted from Polish-built Project 861 hydrographic hulls; KCHF identifies individual ships such as Kildin and Liman as built at Stocznia Polnocna in Gdańsk.

Sources: KCHF.ru: Intelligence Ship Kildin, KCHF.ru: Intelligence Ship Liman

Manufacturer History

  1. Shipyard No. 3 established

    Remontowa Shipbuilding traces the yard to postwar Shipyard No. 3, whose work included construction and repair of wagons, tramways, and small ships.

    Sources: Remontowa Shipbuilding: About the Shipyard

  2. Northern Shipyard name adopted

    The official yard history records the 1950 change of name to Northern Shipyard, the English rendering of Stocznia Północna.

    Sources: Remontowa Shipbuilding: About the Shipyard

  3. Special and naval vessel production expands

    Remontowa Shipbuilding states that the yard began constructing special vessels and warships for the navies of Poland, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and East Germany in 1955.

    Sources: Remontowa Shipbuilding: About the Shipyard

  4. Priazovye laid down at Gdańsk

    KCHF records the Project 864 intelligence ship Priazovye as laid down at Stocznia Polnocna in Gdańsk on 16 April 1986.

    Sources: KCHF.ru: Priazovye Project 864 intelligence ship

  5. Renamed Remontowa Shipbuilding

    Remontowa Shipbuilding's chronology records the 2011 change of name from Northern Shipyard to Remontowa Shipbuilding.

    Sources: Remontowa Shipbuilding: About the Shipyard

Website links
Remontowa Shipbuilding: About the ShipyardRemontowa Shipbuilding: Polish Navy hydrographic vesselsRussianShips.info: Project 864GlobalSecurity: Polnocny Class

Public sources vary between the Polish diacritic form Stocznia Północna and the unaccented Stocznia Polnocna for the same Gdańsk yard. Related manufacturer labels already exist separately, so aliases are intentionally left blank pending a deliberate merge decision.

Manufacturer Sources

  • Remontowa Shipbuilding: About the ShipyardPublisher: Remontowa Shipbuilding S.A. | Note: Official successor-site source for the yard's history, Remontowa Holding relationship, facilities, certificates, strategic-goods licensing, Swojska 8 address, and 1945-2011 timeline. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Remontowa Shipbuilding: Polish Navy hydrographic vesselsPublisher: Remontowa Shipbuilding S.A. | Note: Official source identifying Stocznia Północna as Northern Shipyard and as today's Remontowa Shipbuilding, in the context of Polish Navy hydrographic vessels. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • RussianShips.info: Project 864 medium intelligence shipsPublisher: RussianShips.info | Note: Reference source for the Project 864 / Vishnya production list, seven completed units, Stocznia Polnocna Gdańsk construction attribution, and general class specifications. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • KCHF.ru: Priazovye Project 864 intelligence shipPublisher: Black Sea Fleet Information Resource | Note: Ship-specific source identifying Priazovye as laid down at Stocznia Polnocna Shipyard in Gdańsk and supporting Project 864 timeline context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • KCHF.ru: Intelligence Ship KildinPublisher: Black Sea Fleet Information Resource | Note: Ship-specific source identifying Kildin as a Project 861M intelligence ship built as a Project 861 hull at Stocznia Polnocna in Gdańsk. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • KCHF.ru: Intelligence Ship LimanPublisher: Black Sea Fleet Information Resource | Note: Ship-specific source identifying Liman as a Project 861M intelligence ship built at Stocznia Polnocna in Gdańsk and later converted for intelligence service. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • GlobalSecurity: Polnocny ClassPublisher: GlobalSecurity.org | Note: Reference source for the Northern Shipyard name, Stocznia Polnocna cooperation with naval customers, Polnocny landing-ship background, and Gdańsk shipyard production context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11

Produced weapons

Category

Naval Systems

Warships, submarines, unmanned surface vessels, naval craft, and maritime combat systems.

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Vishnya class (Project 864) intelligence ship, Signals intelligence collection ship class, Naval Systems2011 Syrian Civil War, 2014 Russia-Ukraine WarVishnya class (Project 864) intelligence shipSignals intelligence collection ship classBuilt in: PolandThe Vishnya class (Project 864), also known as the Meridian class, is a Soviet-designed signals intelligence collection ship class built in Poland for the Soviet and later Russian Navy. The ships are purpose-built SIGINT and COMINT collectors with satellite-link antennas, sonar, and short-range self-defense weapons; documented wartime employment includes Russian deployments around Syria and Priazovye's 2023 Black Sea pipeline-security mission during the Russia-Ukraine War.