Quarter boat from Flygia

About the object

• Description
  A quarter boat is a launch carried on the quarter (the side of a ship at the stern) of a vessel. The Flygia quarter boat differs from other naval lanches in being carvel built of mahogany and having a pointed stern. It has also always benn coated in clear varnish and not, as was customary in the navy, painted gray. In co...

  A quarter boat is a launch carried on the quarter (the side of a ship at the stern) of a vessel.

  The Flygia quarter boat differs from other naval lanches in being carvel built of mahogany and having a pointed stern. It has also always benn coated in clear varnish and not, as was customary in the navy, painted gray.

  In contemporary marine paintings the beautiful boat can be clearly seen, hanging from the dacits of the armored crusier Flygia.

  Flygia, was also called "Sweden's white swan", was built at the Finnboda shipyard in 1905 and commissioned in 1907; a strike at the shipyard delayed the outfitting of the ship. Flygia was the biggest ship in the Swedish navy but still the worlds' smallest armored crusier. She was the first of ten planned cruisers, but since financial restraints only allowed for one she became the only vessel of its kind in the navy.

  Flygia was a beautiful ship, but she was also an odd bird among contemporary men-of-war. Apart from the yellow funnels, she was painted all white. Her stern had a ram and the ornamentation on the bow was golded. For many years the Flygia was employed for long training voyages, and many a cadet has recorded his experiences from these travels in his diary.

  Flygia had a length over all of 115,1 m, and her beam was 14,6m. Her draught was 5,1 m and her displacement 4310 tons. She had a crew of 322, 50 whom were cadets. For prioulsion she originally had two piston steam engines, fed by twelve boilers in three boiler rooms, developing 12000 hp.

  By the beginning of World War II in 1939 Flygia had become obsolete. She was rebuilt and given a new ranked stem and new machinery. in 1952 she was decommissioned and used as a gunnery practice target for some years before being broken up in Copenhagen in 1957. The quarter boat was donated to the National Maritime Museum by the Naval Warfare School (Sjökrigsskolan) in 1978.

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• Designation Skeppsbåt
• Precise designation Låringsbåt till kryssaren Fylgia, livbåt, 12-huggare, för segel och rodd
• Identifier SM 22210
• Indexing term Livbåt Skeppsbåt
• Type Thing

• Inscription

  • Påförd text: I stäven "l" och vapensköld.

    Plåt i akterstäven:

    "Högst 31 man, besättning inräknad. Karlskrona örlogsvarv".

• Dimensions value
  • Height1000.0 mm
  • Length8450.0 mm
  • Width2150.0 mm

• Materials Mahogny

• Colour Fernissad

• Techniques Kravell

• Other information

  Rederi: Kungliga Flottan

  Varv: Bergsunds Mek. Verkstads AB, Ort: Sve Stockholm, År: 1907

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