Naiads (ship, 1897)

Naiads

Ship data flag  Sweden Ship type Full ship home port Halmstad Owner Föreningen Najadens Vänner, Halmstad Shipyard Örlogsvarvet , Karlskrona Launch February 11, 1897 Whereabouts Museum ship in Halmstad

Ship dimensions and crew length 48.80 m ( Lüa ) width 8.40 m Draft Max. 3.70 m displacement 350  t   crew 120, including 100 boys

Rigging and rigging Rigging Full ship Number of masts 3 Sail area 740 m²

The Najaden is a museum ship built in 1897 and is today . For the first 41 years of her career, the Najaden served as a sailing training ship for the Swedish Navy . She is one of the smallest full ships designed and built as such .

history

As a sailing training ship

The Naiads in Swinoujscie in July 1930

The ship, named after the Naiads , was built in 1896/97 by the Örlogsvarvet (naval shipyard) in Karlskrona . The building was built in composite construction : the keel, deck beams and frames of the hull are made of iron, the outer skin of wood. Three years after the composite construction of the Najaden , Örlogsvarvet built a sister ship of the Najaden with a completely steel hull, the Jarramas, in 1900 as the shipyard's last new building .

In the first 41 years of their service, the Naiads were operated as a training ship for the navy's junior seafarers. Training trips took the ship from its home port of Karlskrona along the Swedish east and west coasts, to Denmark, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany and a number of other Baltic countries. During these years the sailor repeatedly showed himself to be a fast ship.

Later career

After her decommissioning in the summer of 1938, the Naiaden was dismantled and hung up . During the Second World War, the ship lay in the port of Torekov as a floating accommodation, emergency vehicle and harbor lock and was initially to be scrapped after the end of the war.

Instead, the city of Halmstad received the ship as a gift and restored it at the instigation of the wholesaler Bernhard Aronsson in the naval shipyard in Karlskrona. On July 29, 1946, the restored ship arrived in Halmstad with great sympathy from the population. Since 1956, the museum sailor has had its permanent berth as a floating tourist attraction and café in the Nissan on the Schlosskai there. After the Najaden had received new masts in 1971/72, a new rig in 1976/77 and a new deck in 1984/85, the Föreningen Najadens Vänner group was founded in 1988 with the aim of further restoring and maintaining the ship .

literature

• Schäuffelen, Otmar: The last great sailing ships . Verlag Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 1994, ISBN 3-7688-0860-2 , p. 269/270 .

Web links

• Official website of the Föreningen Najadens Vänner (Swedish)

Coordinates: 56 ° 40 ′ 18.8 ″  N , 12 ° 51 ′ 31.6 ″  E