Sailing ship "full rigged ship", "Af Chapman", now "Dunboyne".
Good evening to all sailing ship lovers.
We return to the sails. Sailing ships these fantastic products of man.
I share with you some images of a sailing ship, specifically a "full-rigged ship". Classic three-masted sailing ship with all square sails and the spanker (or driver) on the mizzen abero.
Unfortunately, I didn't have the time and opportunity to take photos on board. There would have been invaluable details for us naval modelers, lots of real details to copy.
This is the "Dunboyne" later renamed "Af Chapman".
Fantastic.
Anyone can learn more with a quick internet search, but for the lazy ones, I'll include a brief description here.
+The ship was built in England and named Dunboyne after an Irish citizen. It was a sturdy merchant ship, designed to carry goods over very long distances.
He sailed everywhere from Europe to Australia to North America, rounding the great ocean capes before the Panama Canal was even built.
During the First World War it was purchased by a Swedish company. In 1923 she moved to the Swedish Navy which turned her into a training ship to train young sailors. On this occasion she was renamed af Chapman. This name is a tribute to Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, a very famous naval designer and Swedish admiral of the eighteenth century.
In 1947, the city of Stockholm rescued the ship from scrapping. Since 1949 she has been permanently moored near Skeppsholmen Islet, in the heart of Stockholm.
The af Chapman (formerly the Dunboyne) is a large 19th-century sailing ship with a hull made entirely of steel. Its dimensions made it perfectly suited to withstand the world's roughest seas, such as the trade routes around Cape Horn.
Dimensions and Measurements
Length Overall (LOA): 88.4 meters (this measurement includes the hull plus the bowsprit—the long spar projecting forward from the bow).
Hull length: 71.1 meters.
Beam (Maximum width): 11.4 meters.
Draft: 5.6 meters (the depth of the ship below the waterline). When fully loaded for commercial operations, this could reach nearly 7 meters.
Height of the mainmast: 41.6 meters (equivalent to a building of about 13–14 stories).
Characteristics and Tonnage
Gross Tonnage (GRT): Approximately 1,425 tons.
Hull material: Riveted steel.
Masts: 3 masts in total.
Sail rig: Full-rigged (all three masts carry square sails on horizontal yards).
Number of sails: As many as 26 different sails deployed to the wind while underway.
Original propulsion: Sail-only (it was never equipped with a marine engine for open-sea navigation).
When the vessel served as a training ship for the Swedish Navy, it accommodated up to approximately 250–300 people at a time—including officers, instructors, and young cadets—who slept in hammocks.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Af_Chapman_(ship)
We return to the sails. Sailing ships these fantastic products of man.
I share with you some images of a sailing ship, specifically a "full-rigged ship". Classic three-masted sailing ship with all square sails and the spanker (or driver) on the mizzen abero.
Unfortunately, I didn't have the time and opportunity to take photos on board. There would have been invaluable details for us naval modelers, lots of real details to copy.
This is the "Dunboyne" later renamed "Af Chapman".
Fantastic.
Anyone can learn more with a quick internet search, but for the lazy ones, I'll include a brief description here.
+The ship was built in England and named Dunboyne after an Irish citizen. It was a sturdy merchant ship, designed to carry goods over very long distances.
He sailed everywhere from Europe to Australia to North America, rounding the great ocean capes before the Panama Canal was even built.
During the First World War it was purchased by a Swedish company. In 1923 she moved to the Swedish Navy which turned her into a training ship to train young sailors. On this occasion she was renamed af Chapman. This name is a tribute to Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, a very famous naval designer and Swedish admiral of the eighteenth century.
In 1947, the city of Stockholm rescued the ship from scrapping. Since 1949 she has been permanently moored near Skeppsholmen Islet, in the heart of Stockholm.
The af Chapman (formerly the Dunboyne) is a large 19th-century sailing ship with a hull made entirely of steel. Its dimensions made it perfectly suited to withstand the world's roughest seas, such as the trade routes around Cape Horn.
Dimensions and Measurements
Length Overall (LOA): 88.4 meters (this measurement includes the hull plus the bowsprit—the long spar projecting forward from the bow).
Hull length: 71.1 meters.
Beam (Maximum width): 11.4 meters.
Draft: 5.6 meters (the depth of the ship below the waterline). When fully loaded for commercial operations, this could reach nearly 7 meters.
Height of the mainmast: 41.6 meters (equivalent to a building of about 13–14 stories).
Characteristics and Tonnage
Gross Tonnage (GRT): Approximately 1,425 tons.
Hull material: Riveted steel.
Masts: 3 masts in total.
Sail rig: Full-rigged (all three masts carry square sails on horizontal yards).
Number of sails: As many as 26 different sails deployed to the wind while underway.
Original propulsion: Sail-only (it was never equipped with a marine engine for open-sea navigation).
When the vessel served as a training ship for the Swedish Navy, it accommodated up to approximately 250–300 people at a time—including officers, instructors, and young cadets—who slept in hammocks.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Af_Chapman_(ship)
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