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HSwMS Eugenie by Jacob Hägg, 1905. [Click on image to enlarge.] |
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Swedish Frigate HSwMS Eugenie *
HSwMS Eugenie was a Swedish frigate, armed with 40 cannons. Between 1851 and 1853, under the command of Christian Adolf Virgin, she was the first Swedish warship to circumnavigate the globe. The voyage was intended to promote Swedish trade. One of its officers, Carl Skogman, published a narrative of the journey. The vessel was classified as a corvette from 1877 until 1888, when it was converted into an accommodation ship at Skeppsholmen. She was taken out of service completely in 1919 and was sold to a Norwegian shipping company in Moss to be used as a floating residence for workers. In 1926, she was sold to a scrap dealer in Halmstad for scrapping. The ship is named after Princess Eugenie, daughter of Oscar I of Sweden. While this voyage was the first global circumnavigation ever made by a Swedish warship, the first Swedish circumnavigation of the globe was probably carried out by the small brigantine, the Mary Ann under the command of captain Nils Werngren who performed an unplanned circumnavigation between 1839 and 1841. * The frigate Eugenie when she reached Sea Reach, the western entrance to the strait, on February 10 after completing her passage through the Strait of Magellan. The painter was Jacob Hägg (1839-1931), a Swedish naval officer and marine painter. The painting is held by the Sjöhistoriska musee (Maritime Museum), Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Last updated by Tom Tyler, Denver, CO, USA, Feb 2, 2026
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