Noblessneri (Noblessner)

Port named after Noblessner, the name of the company created when Alfred Nobel’s nephew Emanuel, director of Branobel (see Petrooleumi), and a torpedo manufacturer by the name of Lessner merged to build submarines for the Russian navy after the 1905 Battle-of-Tsushima débâcle (see Peetri). Founded around 1912, the shipyard operated from 1913-1916 until the дерьмо hit the fan, while Lessner’s St-Petersburg plant would later become known as the Karl Marx Machine-Building Association, which must have made him a very happy chappy. One of a group of five ports/harbors in Kalamaja. See Patareisadam.