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![]() Painting of HSwMS Eugenie by Jacob Hägg.
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Name | Eugenie |
Builder | Karlskrona shipyard |
Launched | December 9, 1844 |
Commissioned | 1846 |
Out of service | May 8, 1888 |
Fate | Sold in 1919, scrapped in 1926 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Frigate |
Displacement | 1,360 tons |
Length | 46.69 m (153.2 ft) |
Beam | 12.37 m (40.6 ft) |
Draught | 5.49 ft (1.67 m) |
HSwMS Eugenie was a Swedish frigate, armed with 40 cannons. Between 1851 and 1853, the Eugenie was captained by Christian Adolf Virgin as the first Swedish warship to circumnavigate the globe, on a voyage intended to promote Swedish trade. Naval officer Carl Skogman subsequently released an itinerary 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.