SS Enköping

Enköping passing Blockhusudden in 2017
History
Name:	Enköping (1868-1885) Various - see text (1885-1990) Enköping (1990-)
Owner:	Various - see text (1868-1990) Strömma Kanalbolaget (1990-)
Builder:	Oskarshamn Shipyard, Sweden
Launched:	1868
General characteristics
Type:	Passenger ferry
Length:	30.33 m (99 ft 6 in)
Beam:	5.45 m (17 ft 11 in)
Draught:	2.4 m (7 ft 10 in)
Speed:	9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph)

The Enköping is a Swedish motor vessel, and former steam ship, that was built in 1868 at Oskarshamn. Over the years, she has operated under the names Östhammar, Skokloster, Arholma, Väddö, Glafsfjorden, Södra Skärgården and Soten. In 1948 she was converted to diesel power. In 1990 Strömma Kanalbolaget bought her, and she is now used for tourist services on Lake Malaren and in the . According to her owners, she is the oldest passenger ship still in service in the Lloyd's Register of Shipping.

Enköping was built as a steam ship by the Oskarshamn Shipyard in Oskarshamn and launched on the 20 June 1868. She was delivered to the Bockholmssunds Ångfartygsbolag of for service on the route from Stockholm to Enköping via Lake Malaren. Despite several changes of ownership, she continued to operate on this route until 1885.

Enköping was sold to Ångfartygs AB Östhammar in 1885, for use in the on the Stockholm to Östhammar route, and taking the name Östhammar. In 1889 she was given a new engine and boiler. In November 1899 she went aground outside Herräng and suffered significant damage. The following year, and still unrepaired, she was sold to Ångfartygs AB Sigtuna and renamed Skokloster. After repair, she returned to Lake Mälaren to operate a service from Stockholm to Örsundsbro via Sigtuna.

In 1911 Skokloster was sold to Ångfartygs AB Sylfid of Norrtälje and renamed Arholma. Her new owners returned her to the Stockholm archipelago and she was put into service on the Stockholm to Arholma service. She received a new boiler in 1912, but the following year was sold to Carl Gustaf Grönstedt, also of Norrtälje, and renamed Väddö. She ran on the Stockholm to Väddö route.