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20-411: A larger area of the city, separated from Djurgården proper by Djurgårdsbrunnsviken is Norra Djurgården ( Northern Djurgården ), including Gärdet . Djurgården was until the 16th century known as Valmundsö and this name is still preserved in locations such as Waldemarsudde . Though several proposals to explain this name have been put forward, no authoritative explanation is generally accepted. While

40-670: A Summer Olympics venue is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Pinnace (ship%27s boat) As a ship's boat , the pinnace is a light boat , propelled by oars or sails , carried aboard merchant and war vessels in the Age of Sail to serve as a tender . The pinnace was usually rowed but could be rigged with a sail for use in favorable winds. A pinnace would ferry passengers and mail , communicate between vessels, scout to sound anchorages, convey water and provisions, or carry armed sailors for boarding expeditions. The Spanish favored them as lightweight smuggling vessels while

60-516: A Royal game park; in 1801, the theatre Djurgårdsteatern was opened, which was to be one of the most popular establishments there during the 19th century. King Charles XIV John 's creation of the Rosendal Palace in the 1820s marked the beginning of Djurgården's development as a stately residential area, paired with the creation of several entertainment establishments in the late 19th century, including Gröna Lund 1883, and Skansen 1891. At

80-460: A café just south of Skansen, in block Alberget, sports club Djurgårdens IF was founded on 12 March 1891. The western waterfront of the island was a small scale shipyard during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, after which the Navy erected some 30 sheds for the winter quarters of galleys in the area. The operations expanded during the 1870s when a dry dock was constructed. Plans to relocate

100-470: Is a bay in central Stockholm , Sweden , together with the canal Djurgårdsbrunnskanalen forming the northern shore line of the island Djurgården (or more correctly between Northern and Southern Djurgården ). The bridge Djurgårdsbron stretches over the bay. Historically known as a good fishing ground, Djurgårdsbrunnsviken, also known as the Bay of Sweden, is today popular for bathing in summer. The bay

120-522: Is preserved at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard . One example of a ship utilizing many steam pinnace (ship's boats) was HMS London in Zanzibar while suppressing the slave trade in the region: Slavery was legal in all Muslim countries, and HM ships could only become involved with slaving when it took place on the high seas. The boats of HMS London were kept at five minutes' notice, ready equipped with water, salt pork, biscuits, arms, local currency and

140-562: The Dutch used them as raiders. In modern parlance, "pinnace" has come to mean an auxiliary vessel that does not fit under the " launch " or " lifeboat " definitions. The word pinnace , and similar words in many languages (as far afield as Indonesia, where the boat " pinisi " took its name from the Dutch pinas ), came ultimately from the Spanish pinaza c. 1240, from pino ( pine tree ), from

160-540: The Technical Museum ( Tekniska museet ). On the south shore are the open-air museum Skansen , the Rosendal Palace ( Rosendals slott ). 59°19′52″N 18°06′32″E  /  59.33111°N 18.10889°E  / 59.33111; 18.10889 This article about a location in Stockholm County , Sweden is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about

180-464: The 1680s however, and the neighbourhood was instead populated by a diverse crowd. Plans to demolish the "insignificant shacks" in front of the World Fair in 1897, and for a planned expansion of the naval shipyard in 1918, never were accomplished and the area is today protected as a historical monument. During the late 18th century, Djurgården transformed into more of a popular recreational area than

200-401: The amusement park Gröna Lund and east of it, a private shipyard was developed from 1735 by the merchant Efraim Lothsack, who also had several new residential buildings built. The activities grew during the 19th century under the managership of John Burgman and Adolf Fredholm, of which the former had the church, Djurgårdskyrkan , and the school, Djurgårdsskolan , built. The shipyard was sold to

220-1002: The city in 1863 and moved to Södra Hammarbyhamnen in 1979. Another shipyard for pinnaces , built in the strait between Djurgården and Beckholmen in 1868, is still in operation. The southern portion of the area hosted the Stockholm International Exhibition (1930) . Besides the list below, a big portion of Djurgården consists of green areas offering footpaths and water front promenades among present or historical upper class residences and old institutional buildings, many of which are regarded as historical monuments of national interest. Ways to get there include by foot, by tram from Sergels torg or by boat from Nybroplan , Skeppsholmen or Slussen . Nearby subway stations include Karlaplan metro station . 59°19′30″N 18°07′00″E  /  59.32500°N 18.11667°E  / 59.32500; 18.11667 Djurg%C3%A5rdsbrunnsviken Djurgårdsbrunnsviken

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240-457: The first decades of English settlement in "Virginia". With the introduction of steam propulsion came the steam pinnace. Coal burning warships were particularly vulnerable when at anchor, immobile until they could get a head of steam. Steam pinnaces were designed to be small enough to be carried by the capital ships they were allocated to and in addition to other duties were armed to act as picket boats . The Royal Navy pinnace Steam Pinnace 199

260-417: The main bridge to the island. One of the most prominent buildings of the exposition, a 16,820 m (181,000 sq ft) exposition hall in wood, design by the architect Ferdinand Boberg and featuring a 100-metre (330 ft) tall cupola and 4 minarets, was demolished after the exposition however, together with many other pavilions built in non-permanent materials. In what is today the southern part of

280-507: The mouth of Lake Mälaren ". The present name, Djurgården , stems from the game park of King John III , which he declared the intention to realize in February 1579 to keep deer , reindeer , and elk . In the 17th century a baiting arena was built at the location. In 1667, a few cottages intended for "paralysed and crippled seafarers" were built forming what was to become Djurgårdsstaden . The Swedish Navy moved to Karlskrona during

300-686: The name of King Valdemar (1239–1302) was probably associated with the old name during the 17th century, the separate elements of the original variations of the name might be interpreted as etymologically related to either Walm-und-ö - if walm is linked to the Anglo-Saxon words wielm , wylm , this would mean the original name should be interpreted as "The island outside of which the waves grow large" (an interpretation with no equivalents in other Nordic geographic names) - or Wal-mund-ö - which could possibly be interpreted as walder ("embankment", "grounds") and mun ("mouth"), i.e. "the grounds next to

320-496: The pinnace in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the first half of the 17th century is documented. By the 1630s, historical records mention many ships trading or fishing with the Massachusetts Bay Colony, some of which were also built in-colony. Above all, the fishing trade had taken hold off the shores of New England, and was immediately successful. The pinnace may have been the preferred, multi-use small ship of

340-506: The shipyard in the beginning of the 20th century were interrupted by World War II, which meant the activities grew considerably instead, culminating in 1945 when 1,280 people were employed. In 1969, the Navy moved to Muskö , and in the early 1970s the area was transformed into the recreation area it is today. Many structures on the western part of Djurgården date back to the Stockholm World's Fair of 1897 , including Djurgårdsbron ,

360-517: The term for a larger vessel's boat. Furthermore, several ship type and rig terms were used in the 17th century, but with very different definitions from those applied today. Often decked over, the "small" pinnace was able to support a variety of rigs, each of which conferred maximum utility to specific missions such as fishing, cargo transport and storage, or open ocean voyaging. The mature "small" pinnace design emerged as versatile with several different options and rigs possible. The expected popularity of

380-481: The wood of which the ships were constructed. The word came into English from the Middle French pinasse . Identification of some pinnaces in contemporary historical documents is often difficult because there was no standardization of pinnace design, be the type "small" or "large". The term seems to have been applied to variants of what may be called the full-rigged pinnace , rather than the alternative use of

400-551: Was used for the diving , swimming (including the part for the modern pentathlon event), water polo and rowing competitions during the 1912 Summer Olympics , and during the Swedish championship 1930. On the north shore of the bay are a great number of embassies and several museums, including The National Maritime Museum ( Sjöhistoriska museet ), the Ethnographical Museum ( Etnografiska museet ), and

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