FREDRIK HENRIK AF CHAPMAN

'Fredric Henric af Chapman' (September 9 1721 in Gothenburg – August 19 1808) was a Swedish naval ship architect, promoted to vice admiral in 1791, manager of the shipyard at Karlskrona between 1782-1793. His father was an English naval officer, Thomas Chapman (born 1679 in Yorkshire), who moved to Sweden in 1715. Chapman was ennobled in 1772.
At the age of 15 Chapman moved to Stockholm to learn the art of shipbuilding, during a visit to England in 1741 he was arrested when visiting a shipyard. Upon release, he was offered English service, which he declined. In 1744 he and another person established a shipyard in Gothenburg. Between 1752-56 he studied abroad. In 1757 he was commissioned as a junior shipwright by the Royal Swedish Navy and tasked with designing a couple of shallow draft vessels for the Finnish archipelago or coastal fleet. 1764 he was promoted to senior shipwright.
Chapman was the author of ''Architectura Navalis Mercatoria'' (1768) and several other shipbuilding-related works.

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★ Jacobstads Wapen

★ Swedish Amphion

External links

★ Chapman's entry at Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon

★ Chapman at Nordisk Familjebok

★ af Chapman (ship)