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The Af Chapman is a Swedish full ship made of iron and the third oldest in the world of its kind. It is the third sailing ship of this name after two frigates ( Af Chapman 1803, Af Chapman 1830).
In the years 1887 to 1888 the full ship was built in Whitehaven , Cumbria , as Dunboyne , named after the place Dunboyne 15 km northwest of Dublin , for the Irish shipping company Charles E. Martin & Co. from Dublin. After being launched on March 2, 1888, she went on her maiden voyage to the American west coast in Portland , Oregon at the end of March . Until 1908 she sailed under Captain John O'Neill on the Australian route , mostly calling at Welsh and western English ports ( Cardiff , Liverpool ). In 1908 the full ship was sold to Porsgrunn , Norway , to the shipowner Leif Gundersen and in 1915 to Emil Knudsen, Lillesand (small village 30 km east of Kristiansand ). After a short time under the Knudsen flag, she came to Sweden that same year. The Swedish shipping company ( schw. Rederiaktiebolaget, Rederi A / B) Transatlantik acquired the sailing ship and changed the name to GD Kennedy . She became a cargo-carrying sail training ship rebuilt and sailed back their old route to Australia - now from Sweden. In 1923 she came to the Swedish Royal Naval Administration (Kungliga Marinförvaltningen) and received her current name Af Chapman ( Eng . "From Chapman"). The godfather is Fredrik Henrik af Chapman (1721-1808), a famous shipbuilder and vice admiral of the Swedish Navy of British origin, who was ennobled in 1772 .
It was used as a sailing training ship until 1934 (last voyage ended on September 27, 1934). It spent the Second World War moored in the Stockholm harbor and served as floating shelter for the Navy. After the war, it was bought by the city of Stockholm (Stockholms Stadsmuseeum, Svenska Turistföreningen (STF); Stockholm City Museum and Swedish Tourist Association as operators) in 1947 and turned into an STF youth hostel (Sw. "STF Vandrarhem af Chapman") while largely retaining its original Remodeled appearance. In this way, large openings in the lower deck caused by renovations can be closed again with original deck components. Since 1949 the sailor has been operating as a youth hostel on West Skeppsholmen pier in Stockholm harbor. The building in front of the landing stage has also been part of the youth hostel since 1983. Today the reception, breakfast room and numerous other rooms are located there. The hostel now has a total of 77 rooms with 282 beds.
On October 20, 2006, the ship was towed into dry dock to receive an extensive renovation. Since April 9, 2008 it has been back in its usual place at Skeppsholmen. As early as 2012, however, damage was discovered again, some of which was aided by unskilled work as part of the renovation.
Ship data
- Construction : iron hull as smooth decker ; 1916 training ship superstructures, expanded poop deck
- Rig : Full ship : split topsails , undivided slab sails and royal sails on all masts; Cross mast with mizzen , 1 gaff sail
- Mast sequence : foremast , main mast , cross mast
- Number of decks : two continuous steel decks, partial deck (steel / wood) as poop and back
- Launched : March 2, 1888
- Maiden voyage : March 31, 1888 to Portland (Oregon) , Oregon , USA
- Distinguishing signal : JVKL (since 1915, under the Swedish flag)
- Builder : Shipbuilding Company, Whitehaven , Great Britain
- Shipping company : Charles E. Martin & Co., Dublin
- other shipping companies: Leif Gundersen, Porsgrunn (1908); Emil Knudsen, Lillesand (1915); Rederi A / B Transatlantik , Gothenburg (1915); Swedish Navy (1923); Stockholm (1947)
- other names: Dunboyne (1888), GD Kennedy (1915), Af Chapman (1923)
- Home port : Dublin (1888), Porsgrunn (1908), Lillesand (1915), Stockholm (1915)
- Figurehead : no; richly carved nose ornament with claw ( volute ), female figure (relief) incorporated on both sides
- Overall length (Lüa): 88.4 m (jib boom stern)
- Hull length : 81.8 m ( Galion - stern )
- Length on deck (LaD): 76.7 m (trailing edge of stem - trailing edge of stern at deck height)
- Length in the KWL (LWL): 71.10 m (rear edge of the stem - rear edge of the rear stem in the KWL including rudder blade)
- Length between the perpendiculars (LzL): 69.6 m (rear edge of the stem - rear edge of the rear stem in the KWL)
- Width: 11.40 m
- Room depth : 6.90 m
- Side height : 7.4 m
- Draft : 5.60 m
- Measurement : 1,425 GRT / 1,380 NRT (as a freighter)
- Displacement : 4,140 t (1,500 t ship mass including 2,640 t cargo)
- Loading capacity / carrying capacity : 2,600 tn.l.
- Sail area 1,530 m² (25 sails: 15 square sails , 4 stay sails , 4 headsails, 1 mizzen sail, 1 mizzen top sail)
- Mast height: 51 m ( flag button - keel ); 45 m (flag button - deck)
- Classification : Lloyd's A-1
- First Skipper : John O'Neill
- other captains: LO Hamre (Norway)
- Crew : ~ 20 men; as a training ship an additional 250 cadets
- Top speed : 16 knots under sail
- Special features: floating youth hostel
Web links
- Photo by DG Kennedy
- Photo from earlier times
- Short biography with pictures (Engl.)
- Photos ( Memento from May 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Profile on www.bruzelius (engl.)
- STF youth hostel af Chapman
Footnotes
- ↑ swedishtouristassociation.com: STF Youth Hostel "af Chapman". Retrieved August 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Dagens Nyheter: En 120-årig dams historia , April 7, 2008 (Swedish)
- ↑ Dagens Nyheter: Nu ska ”af Chapman” åtgärdas - igen , July 10, 2012 (Swedish)
Coordinates: 59 ° 19 ′ 31 ″ N , 18 ° 4 ′ 48.8 ″ E