af Chapman has for many years been used as a youth hostel at Skeppsholmen in Stockholm.
I used her accommodations in 1972 and 77. It was one of the highlights of my backpacking days.
Ektachrome slide scan
Here the lower topsail yards and royals are missing, as they were when I visited in the eighties and the nineties. I believe they now are in place as on this photo: http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/133720/title/af-chapman/cat/524 (Braces even...)
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