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By: AlbinoFlea
Najaden
The ship Najaden is one of Halmstads most important characteristics and most photographed object. The boats Najaden and Jarramas were built in Karlskrona in 1897 and 1900 to educate ships boys in seamanship during 3 summer months. During the remaining 9 months, the boys where attending school in Karlskrona. The boys were 14 years when they were registered for the ships boys training and after that they attended 6 years of skipper schooling. Najaden shows the environment the boys lived in, 100 ships boys were trained here by some 20 commanders. The ship is decorated nearly the way it was during the ships most active years 1897-1938.
