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VASA ship
Vasa is was Swedish
warship built between 1626 and 1628. The ship sank after
sailing roughly 1,400 yd in her maiden voyage on 10 August
1628. The Vasa ship was salvaged with a largely intact hull
in 1961. She is housed in a the Vasa Museum in the Royal
National City Park in Stockholm.
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Named for the royal house,
the ship Vasa was
built to represent the power and glory of the great King
of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus as part of the military
expansion he initiated in a war with Poland-Lithuania. Vasa was constructed to be the most powerful and beautiful
warship ever to sail the seven seas. She measured 220
feet in length, had masts that were 150 feet high, and
carried more than 150,000 square feet of sail. Vasa was
armed primarily with bronze cannons cast in Stockholm
specifically for the ship.
After three years of
construction by over a thousand skilled craftsmen, Wasa
was launched on October 10th 1628. However, she was
dangerously unstable, with too much weight in the upper
structure of the hull. Despite this lack of stability,
she was ordered to sea and sank only a few minutes after
encountering a wind stronger than a breeze, going no more
than 15 yards on her maiden voyage!
The Vasa ship remained under
100 ft of water for more than three centuries.
In 1959, the Swedish government spent $3 million to pull
her from the sea floor and transferred her to Statens
Sjohistoriska Museum. Vasa’s
more than a thousand sculptures and fragments constitute
the largest collection of mannerist-style
seventeenth-century wooden sculpture in the world. She
is the most popular tourist attraction in Sweden
nowadays.
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"The Wasa model has arrived in perfect condition. It is a
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Best regards,
Philippe Vanderstegen
BELGIUM
July 18, 2008"
"I checked around and saw a Vasa
model ship billed as museum quality but its
middle mast was not straight. Its rigging was
oversimplified. Guns didn't have restraining
rope. Photos were so fuzzy but I could see some
more serious deficiencies... " |
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