Swedish Navy

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designeraccd
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Built 1 for my lil Fleet...interesting!! ;) DFO
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Certainly Majestic mate , :)
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Given the Swedish conditions, these 3 were a good "investment" when built!! DFO
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No argument from me Dennis .
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Sweden's first Coastal Defence Ship,HSwMS Sverige pictured in Stockholm Harbour in May 1934.
Built by Götaverken Shipyard, Gothenburg in 1915 and commissioned in 1917after tension between the major world powers, and Sweden's neighbors, increased. Despite the evident threat of Sweden's potential involvement in the First World War in the early 1910s, the Swedish government initially let the project fall through; though after a fundraising campaign supported by the Swedish royal family, they accepted the funds and began construction of Sverige. She went on to serve well past World War II receiving refits and modernisations until being finally scrapped in 1958.
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Äran Class,Coastal Defence Ship HSwMS Tapperheten pictured in 1903.Built at Kockums Shipyard,Malmo in 1902,scrapped in 1947.
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Äran Class Coastal Defence Ships,HSwMS Tapperhetten and HSwMS Manligheten pictured at San Sabastian,Spain in 1927.
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Torpedo Cruiser HSwMS Psilander in her role as a Torpedo Boat Destroyer Tender,pictured with her brood at Riga c1904.
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Swedish Naval Training ship HSwMS a.f.Chapman pictured with USS Constitution docked at Charleston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts,August 3rd 1934.
Chapman was constructed by the Whitehaven Shipbuilding Company, located at Whitehaven in the English county of Cumberland (present-day Cumbria), and launched in February or March of 1888. Her original owners were Charles E. Martin & Co of Dublin and she was originally known as Dunboyne, after the town of Dunboyne in County Meath, Ireland. Her maiden voyage was from Maryport, Cumberland, to Portland, Oregon, and she subsequently made voyages between Europe, Australia and the west coast of North America.
Dumboyne was sold to Norwegian owners in 1909, and then sold on to the Swedish shipping company Transatlantic in 1915. Her new owners renamed her G. D. Kennedy, but sold her on to the Swedish Navy in 1923. The Navy gave the vessel her present name after the shipbuilder and Vice Admiral Fredrik Henrik af Chapman (1721–1808). She was used as a Training Ship and as such she made several trips around the world, running aground at Port Aleza, Puerto Rico, on July 13th 1934. Her final voyage was in 1934, but she served as a Barracks Ship during World War II (1939-1945).
In 1947 the Stockholm City Museum saved the ship from being broken up, and since 1949 af Chapman has been managed by the Svenska Turistföreningen (STF, Swedish Tourist Association). It serves as a youth hostel with 285 beds. During 2008 the ship underwent a comprehensive restoration.While the ship was being worked on in a drydock, the adjacent youth hostel Skeppsholmen remained open. Usually, the af Chapman and Skeppsholmen – not to be confused with the islet of the same name, on which both are situated – are run as a single hostel, with the af Chapman offering accommodation and Skeppsholmen housing the reception, a kitchen for guests, and other facilities.She is docked on the shore next to the Admiralty House.
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What beautiful craft , and so well rigged , such a shame they are teethed to the shore . :(
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