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Christian Ostersehlte, Eisbrecher vor Reval: Die Flotte des Revaler Börsenkomitees (Münster: LIT-Verlag, 2019), 395 s., häftad, ill.
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In: Forum navale. - Stockholm : Sjöhistoriska Samfundet. - 0280-6215 .- 2002-0015. ; 77, s. 151-153
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Mellan trafikpolitiska principer och teknikoptimism : Socialdemokratin och sjöfartssektorns omvandling efter 1963 års trafikpolitiska beslut
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In: Forum navale. - Stockholm : Sjöhistoriska Samfundet. - 0280-6215 .- 2002-0015. ; 76, s. 98-116
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The introduction of the cost-bearing principle as part of the 1963 white paper on transport policy (1963 års trafikpolitiska beslut) is usually considered as the major transport policy change in Sweden during the post-war period. However, as the white paper almost exclusively focused on issues related to road-railway competition, previous research has neglected its significance for the gradual policy shift within the maritime sector which begun in the middle of the 1960s. The Social Democrats begun to analyse important contemporary trends in the shipping sector and make forecasts concerning future scenarios. It was concluded that since international competitiveness of the large export firms was at stake, government maritime policy should encourage them to adapt their transport and logistics chains to the new conditions which emerged during the 1960s.Against this background, this paper deals with how this policy shift was manifested during the decision-making process concerning the icebreaker Njord during the period 1965–1967. During this decision-making process, that state demonstrated a new policy-making style in relation to the icebreaking policy during the 1950s. Instead of relying on cooperation and consensus-building within corporatist arrangements, the state wanted to persuade stakeholders in the forestry and metals sectors to modernize their transport and logistics systems. Winter shipping was framed as a technical system, where icebreakers were integrated with firm-controlled elements such as freight vessels, port facilities and land transports. In this respect, stakeholders were expected to adapt the system introduced by the forestry firm Skandinaviska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA), which in 1965 began concentrating its export traffic on two deep-water terminals, thereby ceasing to use a large number of small, often shallow landing places. Three specially designed cargo vessels were also built to guarantee year-round shipping with icebreaker assistance. Through this system-building approach, the Social Democrats and then-minister of communications Olof Palme were able to negotiate the investment in Njord through the constrains presented by the cost-bearing principle. Since the icebreakers were becoming integrated in a modernized technical system for winter shipping, a new icebreaker could be motivated from a wider industrial reform perspective rather than as an isolated transport policy issue.
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- Eriksson, Niklas, 1976-
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Invasionsfartyget som blev en mjölskuta : identifieringen av ”Dalarövraket” som strussen Bodekull (1661-1678)
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In: Forum navale. - 0280-6215 .- 2002-0015. ; :74, s. 12-53
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- In 2003 a well preserved shipwreck was discovered north of Dalarö in the Stockholm Archipelago. Artefacts indicated that the ship sank during the mid or later half of the 17th century. An archaeological survey revealed that even if the vessel was very small it showed many details that are usually found on large sailing warships, such as gun ports along the sides and a lion figure head. Despite the massive attention the wreck has achieved, from researchers, media and others, the original identity of the wreck has remained an open question until now. In the preserved minutes and letters of the Swedish Admiralty kept in the Military Archives reveal that the Swedish king Karl X Gustav ordered a number of small vessels to be used for transport of horses and soldiers in his war against Denmark in 1659. After the unpredicted death of the king, the campaign against Denmark was cancelled and the unfinished ships were rebuilt in different ways. One of these was Bodekull, which was built under supervision of the newly recruited English Master Shipwright Thomas Day between 1659 and 1661. As the design was changed during construction, several unique details, that are also visible on the wreck, are mentioned in the preserved correspondence between the shipyard and the Admiralty. In October 1678 the Bodekull was sent from Kalmar to grind cereals ata mill along the coast. Despite his instructions he sailed to Fagerholmen in the Stockholm archipelago. On its way back the ship hit a rock and sank. 20 barrels of water soaked flour was sent to Stockholm. This article summarizes the archival research that has led to the identification of the ship.
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Sveriges äldsta skeppsritning : en utredning och ett tolkningsförsök
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In: Forum navale. - 0280-6215 .- 2002-0015. ; 76, s. 14-44
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Sweden´s oldest Ship Drawing: an investigation and interpretationSweden’s oldest drawing of a ship is kept in the National Archives. It depictsa warship with two rows of gunports, hence the working name ‘Theanonymous two-decker’. Unfortunately, nothing is known regarding itsprovenance, when it was made, or who drew it. Most likely we will neverknow which ship is depicted. However, this does not imply that the drawingis totally vapid or incomprehensible. The aim of this article is to datethe drawing, but also to narrow down in which historical context the drawingmay have been created in. The article also sets out to discuss whichships may have been of a similar design. An underlying motif is to makethe drawing more accessible for further research.38 39Drawings from the seventeenth century and earlier are very rare.Through comparing the present drawing with the few other examples thatexist it is apparent that it has not been used for calculating lines and shapeof the ship’s hull, but rather to present the general layout and arrangementof decks, gunports and different rooms aboard.An analysis of the drawing reveal that it was drawn in 1:64 scale usinga ruler of about one foot’s length as the single tool. Contemporary mastershipwrights used dividers, curve rulers and similar to produce their drawings.Hence ‘The anonymous two-decker’ is more of a sketch than a properdrawing. With no doubt it was made by a person with substantial knowledgeabout ships and how to draw and calculate with scale, but it questionableif it was a master shipwright.The drawing has several notes and texts in English. The colour of thetext differs from the colour of the ink in the drawing, which indicates thatthe text is secondary. This means that the person who drew the image andthe one who wrote on it do not have to be the same. Previous researchershave suggested that the drawing was made in England or from an Englishoriginal, but in fact there were several English and Scottish master shipwrightsworking at Swedish shipyards in the late sixteenth and early seventeenthcentury. The text could have been made by one of them.The drawing reveals the ship´s main dimensions: Length of keel, width,depth of hold, as well as some other measurements. It is not possible toidentify a particular ship that corresponds to these dimensions, but it is apparentthat the ship is proportionally wide in relation to its length, whichis archaic. The number of gunports however corresponds to what we knowregarding the Swedish ship Scepter, this without saying that the drawingdepicts this very ship. Scepter was likely much larger than ‘The anonymoustwo-decker’.
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Vraket efter Gribshunden (c. 1483-1495) – ett unikt exempel på medeltida skeppsarkitektur
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In: Forum navale. - 0280-6215 .- 2002-0015. ; :75, s. 80-91
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In 1971 the remains of an old shipwreck were found in shallow water inside the island of Stora Ekön, south of the town of Ronneby in southern Sweden, but it was not until 2000 that archaeologists observed that it was in fact the remains of a large medieval ship. Several underwater archaeological surveys have been carried out at the site and the recovered artefacts are preserved at Blekinge county museum. Wood samples from the wreck was dated to 1483 and in connection the wreck was identified as the remains of King Hans large warship Gribshunden, which sank in the Blekinge archipelago in 1495 on its way from Copenhagen to Kalmar. In 2013 renewed surveys at the wrecksite were initiated through the project “Ships at War” at Södertörn University. Through these surveys it could be stated that Gribshunden resembles one of the state of the art, specially built warships that was introduced in this period. These ships were extremely expensive and very rare already in the 15th century. The survey also showed that much of this important ship still is preserved. The text is based on a lecture for the Swedish Society for Maritime History on 21 November 2018.
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