HSwMS Najaden (1897)



HSwMS Najaden is a Swedish Navy training ship launched in 1897, now preserved as a museum ship in Halmstad and moored on the river Nissan by Halmstad Castle.

The three-masted, wooden hulled sailing ship was constructed at the Royal Naval Shipyard in Karlskrona in 1897 and served in the Swedish Navy as a sail training ship until 1938.

In 1946 she was taken over by the city of Halmstad and completely restored. She now serves as a museum ship and is in the care of the Association of the Friends of Najaden (Föreningen Najadens Vänner).

The sail training ship af Chapman was a contemporary of Najaden in Swedish Navy service.