HSwMS Najaden (1897)

The Naiads is a built in 1897, today a museum ship in Halmstad. The first 41 years of his career served as the naiads sailing ship of the Swedish Navy. It is one of the smallest, as such, designed and built full-rigged ships.

History

As a sail training ship

Was built, named after the Naiads ship in 1896 /97 by the Örlogsvarvet ( Naval Shipyard ) in Karlskrona. The building was constructed in a composite, that is, keel, deck beams and frames of the fuselage are made of iron, the outer skin of wood. Three years after the construction of the naiads created in a composite the Örlogsvarvet built in 1900 as the final construction of the shipyard still a sister ship of the naiads with fully steely hull, Jarramas. In its first 41 years of his service you ran the full-rigged ship naiads as a training ship for the maritime offspring of the Navy. His training trips took the ship from its home port of Karlskrona along the Swedish east and west coasts, Denmark, Great Britain, Holland, Germany and a number of Baltic Sea states. In these years, the sailors showed again and again as fast ship.

Later career

After her decommissioning in the summer of 1938, the naiads was tired in places and hung up. During the Second World War the ship lay as a floating hotel, the service vehicle and lock the port in the port torekov and should be scrapped there after the war initially.

Instead, the city Halmstad got the ship as a gift, and restored it to operation of the wholesaler Bernhard Aronsson in the Navy shipyard in Karlskrona. On 29 July 1946, the restored ship met with great interest of the population in Halmstad. Since 1956, the Museum sailor has his permanent berth as a floating tourist attraction and café in the Nissan at the local Schlosskai. After the naiads had in 1984/85 to receive 1971/72 new masts, 1976/77 a new rig and a new deck, the group Föreningen Well Dens founded in 1988 Vänner that the further restoration and preservation of the traditional ship set itself the goal has. Their commitment to the museum ship in 1994 was rewarded with an award. Currently, the group performs a restoration of the ship.