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Henrik Chapman was born at Nya Varvet, the royal dockyards in Gothenburg, on 9 September 1721. He was the son of Thomas Chapman, a Yorkshireman born in 1679 who moved to Sweden in 1715 and joined the Swedish Navy in 1716. His mother was Susanna Colson, the daughter of the London shipwright William Colson. Chapman showed a talent for shipbuilding when he made his first

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