Immediately beside the Naval Museum’s main building you will find the strange and intriguing Sloop and Longboat Shed with its most unusual roof looking not unlike an egg-carton. The building was erected in 1787 to house the Royal Navy’s smaller boats – the so-called longboats and sloops after which the building has been named.

The ‘egg-carton’ roof was the best solution of the time to cover such a large building (3,600 sq m). The 18th century did not have the lightweight roofing structures we have today. In the winter the small boats attached to the larger ships were manoeuvred directly into the two storeys of the Sloop and Longboat Shed from both ends. 

Today the Sloop and Longboat Shed is a living part of the Naval Museum and World Heritage Site at Karlskrona. Sloops, skiffs and other boats are built, repaired and stored here, all year round, and Litorina Folk High School’s courses in boatbuilding are held here.

The Sloop and Longboat Shed also houses the exhibition Smaller Navy Boats about the small boats which served the Royal Navy over the years.