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Skeppsholmen

Skeppsholmen, 111 49 Stockholm

Former naval island whose old dockyard buildings now house museums and a steel ship turned hostel.

This guide to the af Chapman, moored at Skeppsholmen in Stockholm, follows a steel-hulled ship whose name doesn't add up: built decades after the naval architect it honors had died, in a country he never worked for. You'll hear how she began life under a different name in an English shipyard, hauled cargo between Europe, Australia and North America, and was renamed twice more before the Swedish Navy gave her the name she carries today. It traces her years training naval cadets, up to the voyage that ran aground off Puerto Rico.

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