Harbour Rowing boat from Stockholm Naval Dockyard

About the object

• Description
  This little weather-beaten and well painted rowing boat is the only remaining boat form the time when Boat Hall 2 belonged to the navy. She has had a few knocks and she is a bit leaky, but her flawes lend her character. How old she is cannot be determined, she may be anything from between 70 and 200 years old. To get definite pr...

  This little weather-beaten and well painted rowing boat is the only remaining boat form the time when Boat Hall 2 belonged to the navy. She has had a few knocks and she is a bit leaky, but her flawes lend her character. How old she is cannot be determined, she may be anything from between 70 and 200 years old. To get definite proof of her age it would be necessary to saw her apart for a dendrochronology test (i e counting the growth rings in her wood), and that would not be a tretment worthy of an old faithful servant.

  Until 1968 the Stockholm naval base was loated on Djurgården and Skeppsholmen. Some buildings and installations still tell of those days. Boat Hall 2, were built in the 1940s to house the smaller craft of the navy. Before that, the site where it stands was the home of the Swedish naval aviation in it infancy. The red brick wall outside the hall surrounded all naval activities in Stockholm. Perhaps this is the reason why so few people in Stockholm are aware of Djurgården's naval past. THe little boat was presented to the National Maritime Museum in 1967 when tje navt base was moved to Muskö in the south of the Stockholm achipelago.

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• DesignationRoddbåt
• Precise designationHamnroddbåt
• IdentifierSM 20308
• Indexing termRoddbåt
• Type Thing

• Inscription
  • Påförd text: I aktern: 123. Delvis övermålad skylt, 11 man besättning

• Dimensions value
  • Length5000.0 mm
  • Tjocklek40, borden0.0 mm
  • Height900.0 mm
  • Width1200.0 mm

• MaterialsJärn Ek

• ColourInsidan rödmålad

• TechniquesKravellbyggd

• Other information
  I aktern finns siffran "123" samt en skylt om att båten maximalt tar 11 mans besättning.
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