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Auction 49 5 Oct 2021
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Sweden, Royal Naval Training Ship HMS af Chapman, voyage to West Africa, West Indies and North America, silver medal, 1934, by Sporrong & Co., ship under sail, rev. world map marked with voyage, 40mm., extremely fine
HMS af Chapman, the sail training ship for the Royal Swedish Navy, was named for the great Swedish shipbuilder Fredrik Henrik af Chapman (1721-1808). Built in Whitehaven as the Dunboyne in 1888, she was a three-masted full-rigged ship and is now used as a youth hostel at Skeppsholmen, Stockholm.
(50-70 GBP)
HMS af Chapman, the sail training ship for the Royal Swedish Navy, was named for the great Swedish shipbuilder Fredrik Henrik af Chapman (1721-1808). Built in Whitehaven as the Dunboyne in 1888, she was a three-masted full-rigged ship and is now used as a youth hostel at Skeppsholmen, Stockholm.
(50-70 GBP)