Photos

This photo is dedicated to fanni (Elena Su), who is a Stockholm fan and fond of the red fire boat, which you can see in the photo. ;-)

The photo is taken from the walking bridge leading to the Katarina lift (Katarinahissen) in Södermalm, Stockholm. This time to the other direction than the one, which I showed here. I had to hang the camera outside the fence net in such a way, that I could not properly aim the camera through the view finder. This
is the best I achieved of the couple of "blind" shots after correcting tilting and perspective distortion. Not a perfect composition, but I hope you like the photo anyway.

On the left you can see the Skeppsbrokajen quay. The lock of Slussen is just outside the photo on the left.
One of the Djurgården ferries is in the quay, so is the red boat of Stockholm's Fire Department. On the bottom right corner M/S Patricia (in Stadsgårdskajen quay), which now serves as a restaurant and night club, but has had an interesting history.

Patricia was launched in 1938 from Smith´s Shipyard in Middlesbrough, England. For the better part of the next decade Patricia worked as a light - ship, setting and marking passageway throughout the English Channel.
Patricia played a major role for the Brits during the evacuation of Dunkurque. In 1944 Patricia was part of the first line of ships during the D-Day landing at Normandy. After the war, Patricia was rebuilt into a private luxury yacht for the English Royals. During 1952 Queen Elisabeth used Patricia as her own private yacht. She lived onboard and entertained the world's elite during the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.
In 1986 Patricia moors in Stockholm and opened as a maritime entertainment centre.

The island on the middle background is Skeppsholmen. A couple of centuries ago Skeppsholmen was called Amiralitetsholmen (Admiralty Island), which points to the reason for its present name of "Ships' Island" – for more than 300 years it used to be the central facility of the Royal Swedish Navy. When the Navy moved out in 1968, cultural institutions moved into the naval buildings. Later new structures have been erected as well. Skeppsholmen houses a fair number of the most important cultural institutions of Stockholm and of Sweden – Moderna Muséet (the Museum of Modern Art), Arkitekturmuséet (the Museum of Architecture), Konsthögskolan (the Art Academy), and Kulturrådet, (the Swedish Cultural Council), among others. Stockholm Jazz Festival has been celebrated on Skeppsholmen since 1980 and the island is venue to many other concerts and cultural activities.

The white ship moored in Skeppsholmen is af Chapman, nowadays a youth hostel. Located on the shore next to the Admiralty House, the ship was built in the UK in 1888 and originally known as Dunboyne, after a town in County Meath, Ireland. On its arrival to Sweden in 1915 it was renamed G D Kennedy and when the Navy bought it in 1923 it was given its present name after the shipbuilder and Vice Admiral Fredrik Henrik af Chapman (1721–1808). The Navy used it as a training ship and as such it made several trips around the world before serving as a barracks during WW2.

Behind Skeppsholmen island on the left you can see the houses of Strandvägen boulevard.

The mark in the map view is placed on the point of red fire boat, although the boat is not in the satellite map.
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