Any examples of Swedish and Danish warships?

[Bohica]

Looking to do something different for Black Seas: Scandinavian navies.  Does anyone know where I can find information (especially drawings, etc.) of the Danish and Swedish navies of the Napoleonic period?

[FinnN]

It can be very tricky finding information on anything that isn’t British (or to a lesser extent French) online or otherwise. There’s a forum where people making models for the computer game ‘Naval Action’ have been collecting information, from there you can follow their links to various museums and so on.

https://forum.game-labs.net/forum/28-shipyard/

For example:



https://digitaltmuseum.se/011024822502/fartygsmodell

[MHoxie]

This site might help:

https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=home

[ArisK]

This is a pretty good place to start:

https://archive.org/details/navalwarsinbalti00andeuoft/page/n6

Aris K.

[DeRuyter]

If you are looking for ship plans and paintings I would second the recommendation of the Naval Action forum shipyard section. The members are from all over the world with a significant Swedish and Dutch contingent. There is also a Swedish ship, the Wasa in game. No it is not the famous one that was raised and is not a musuem but a subsequent one built in the Napoleonic period. That and photos of models should give an idea of colors used. You can't go wrong with a red lion figurhead with light blue on the upper works!

Also Amazon sells and inexpensive book of plans from the famous Swedish naval architect Chapman which I have for reference.


https://www.amazon.com/Architectura-Navalis-Mercatoria-Eighteenth-Century-Architecture/dp/0486451550/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=af+chapman&qid=1573746519&sr=8-4