Framnæs Mekaniske Værksted
Originally strongly linked to the whaling industry, in later years it entered into more versatile shipbuilding, including rigs and modules for the offshore business.
The keelhauling site was situated in the area where the carpentry shop was later built, with the building berth located to the northeast.
The owner, businessman and ship owner Joseph Lyhmann (18 September 1825 – 15 April 1915) built in 1861 Lyhmanns mek Verksted approximately where the A/S Framnæs mek Værksted engine shop were located, northwest of today's Skagerrak middle and high schools.
After having done various mechanical activities, they also built many steamships made of steel, but they faced bankruptcy in 1886.
Lyhmann, the industry's main creditor, took back the facility and sold it in 1889 to Captain A.M. Aamundsen, the engineer Jacob Moe, and Adolf Top.
Månedsløytnant, timber merchant and shipowner Peder Soeberg (died 1863) came to Sandefjord in 1807 to join the coast guard.
He laid out an apple garden in the same area as the Framnæs mek Verksted later on had their shipbuilding berth.
They possessed two wooden floating docks, and had close ties with the yard in general.
A/S Framnæs mek Værksteds's landed property is mainly separated from a farm by the name of Vestre Rød.
The eldest known name on the farm is Rud in Valley, and the first known owner was Svale Jonsson Smør.
From 1620 to 1630 the Vestre Rod belonged to the feudal overlord, Admiral Ove Gjedde, and was later included as a speck in his son-in-law, Niels Langes's big estate.
When Niels Langes's bankruptcy was settled, Vestre Rod, in 1667, was first transferred to Mayor Marcus Barenholt's property and then to Vilhelm Mechelsberg.
In 1972, Vestre Rod was redeemed by Ulrik Fredrik Gyldenlove, and then it became county estate.
In 1826, Peder Søeberg bought the Stubbverven from Jacob and Søren Hauene, and he took on the lease to the Soebergverven the same year.
By a convey of 21 March 1874 Joseph Lyhmann and Henrik Klaveness sold the whole site of Søebergverven to the businessman Jon Elisæus Sanne Wetlesen (father of art painter Wilhelm Wetlesen and brother-in-law of Christen Christensen).
Wetlesen did sell his part in the Rødsverven (Søebergverven) to Gogsjø Dampsag, who on 23 April 1878 transferred this site to Christen Christensen.
On 31 October 1876 Christen Christensen bought from Joseph Lymann that part of Vestre Rød that reached from Rødsverven and out to Langestrandsbekken.
Christen Christensen became the private owner of all the land A/S Framnæs mek Værksted took over in the year of 1898.
