On June 27, 1875, the 24 year-old Friedrich Lürssen set up a boatbuilding workshop in Aumund, a suburb of Bremen, Germany. The focus of work in the first years was on work boats for fishing and ferry operations. Hull number one was a five meter long rowboat. From the 1880s Lürssen opened up the sport boat market. In 1886 the first motorboat in the world was built by Lürssen (according to his own account). The 6-meter REMS was commissioned by the inventor and engine manufacturer Gottlieb Daimler, who needed a boat to put his new engine through its paces. Friedrich Lürssen, always open to new ideas, designed and built it without delay. The Daimler engine that powered it had a cylinder capacity of 0.462 liters, weighed 60 kilograms, and had an output 1.5 hp at 700 rpm. From about 1890 motor boats were built in cooperation with the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft and Lürssen quickly became the leading German motor boat yard. Orders from abroad were soon received.