About 20 people died fighting with army and police in the streets of Gdynia during the Polish 1970 protests.

The construction of its first larger ship, SS Olza, was interrupted by the outbreak of World War II.

After sustaining bombing damage during World War II the shipyard was rebuilt and expanded.

[2] Since March 2009, according to the so-called law "specustawa stoczniowa"[3] was started the process of compensation Gdynia Shipyard, which meant the elimination of legal terms, the total sale of assets yard in the open tender and redundancies involving all employees.

On 25 June 2009 the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration issued a formal agreement on the sale of assets of Stocznia Gdynia SA, necessary for entities outside the European Economic Area.