Which warship, perfectly preserved in Stockholm, sank on her maiden voyage in 1628?
"Vasa (ship) Vasa (or Wasa) is a retired Swedish warship built between 1626 and 1628. The ship foundered after sailing about 1,300 m (1,400 yd) into its maiden voyage on 10 August 1628. It fell into obscurity after most of her valuable bronze cannons were salvaged in the 17th century until she was located again in the late 1950s in a busy shipping lane just outside the Stockholm harbor. Salvaged with a largely intact hull in 1961, it was housed in a temporary museum called Wasavarvet ('The Wasa Shipyard') until 1988 and then moved permanently to the Vasa Museum in"
"used as a base for the Swedish navy. As such, it is known that the ""Vasa"" (ship), was heading for the marine base on Älvsnabben when it was launched in August 1628. History tells us that the Vasa sank short after its launch, only 1200 meters from the king's castle in Stockholm. Älvsnabben was the base of operation for the naval operations and shipping of Swedish troops to Germany during the Thirty Years War and throughout the 17th century. During the Scanian War of 1675-79, Sweden suffered a string of serious defeats against Danish and Dutch fleets, in part since"
"still remain a mystery, is estimated that at least 500 men were trapped in the ship, and only 35 of these escaped to safety In 1982, sixty million people watched as the vessel was lifted out of its resting place, with its 19,000 discovered objects still intact. Due to the preservation of this monument of underwater cultural heritage in the ""Mary Rose"" museum, the public can continue to enjoy the vessel and all of her artifacts. Off the coast of Sweden in 1628, the pride of the Swedish Navy, the ""Vasa"" sunk deep beneath the frigid waters of the Baltic"
"1972 Franzén was awarded the Society's research/professional degree of Doctor of Marine Histories (MHD) from the College of Marine Arts. He is buried in Galärvarvskyrkogården in Stockholm. Anders Franzén Tells his story about His Majestýs Ship VASA 1628, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 2009, . Anders Franzén Anders Franzén (23 July 1918 – 8 December 1993) was a Swedish marine technician and an amateur naval archaeologist. He is most famous for having located the 1628 wreck of the Swedish galleon ""Vasa"" in 1956 and participated in her salvage 1959–1961. He also participated in the salvage and exploration of the"
"process of publishing an 8-volume archaeological report to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the salvage. ""Vasa I: The Archaeology of a Swedish Warship of 1628"" was published at the end of 2006. Subsequent volumes will be published annually. The museum also features four other museum ships moored in the harbour outside: the ice breaker ""Sankt Erik"" (launched 1915), the lightvessel ""Finngrundet"" (1903), the torpedo boat ""Spica"" (1966) and the rescue boat ""Bernhard Ingelsson"" (1944). Vasa Museum The Vasa Museum () is a maritime museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Located on the island of Djurgården, the museum displays the only almost fully"
"ship and insisted on swift completion of what was intended to be the pride of his fleet. Despite stability tests that showed that ""Vasa"" was dangerously unstable, she was allowed to sail in August 1628. After less than , the ship was hit by a strong gust of wind and foundered in Stockholm harbor. The fiasco of ""Vasa""s sinking has been ascribed largely to a supposed lengthening of the ship in mid-construction, constant meddling in minor details by the king (who was abroad waging war) and problems in communication between the various parties involved. Though these claims are today considered"
"Svärdet Svärdet (Swedish: ""the sword"") was a Swedish warship that sank on 1 June 1676 at the Battle of Öland during the Scanian War, with most of its crew. ""Svärdet"" was, during the Scanian War, under the command of Claes Uggla, and fought in the Battle of Öland. She was surrounded early in the battle, and fought for two hours until her main mast was destroyed and the ship surrendered. Before the surrounding enemies could board ""Svärdet"", a Dutch fireship accidentally set her ablaze. The fire eventually reached the gunpowder store, which set off an explosion that sank the ship."
"1620s. In 1625, a squadron cruising in the Bay of Riga was caught in a storm and ten ships ran aground and were wrecked. In the Battle of Oliwa in 1627, a Swedish squadron was outmaneuvered and defeated by a Polish force and two large ships were lost. ""Tigern"" ('The Tiger'), which was the Swedish admiral's flagship, was captured by the Poles, and ""Solen"" ('The Sun') was blown up by her own crew when she was boarded and near capture. In 1628, three more large ships were lost in less than a month; Admiral Klas Fleming's flagship ""Kristina"" was wrecked"
"embargo on the young city of Gothenburg, founded in 1621. ""Stora Sofia"" was the flagship of a Danish fleet under admiral Ove Gjedde that was ordered to enforce the embargo. Shortly after the arrival of the fleet, a storm broke loose and threw the ""Stora Sofia"" onto the rocks. The ship sank to a depth of 27 metres; her crew was saved. The wreck was rediscovered only in 1961. More thorough explorations and archeological studies began in the 1980s. Stora Sofia Stora Sofia () was a Danish ship of the line that sank on 25 May 1645 near Buskär outside"
"Only about 50 of a crew of nearly 650 men survived. On 15 November 2011, it was announced that a wreck believed to be ""Svärdet"" had been found by divers off the island coast of Öland. Svärdet Svärdet (Swedish: ""the sword"") was a Swedish warship that sank on 1 June 1676 at the Battle of Öland during the Scanian War, with most of its crew. ""Svärdet"" was, during the Scanian War, under the command of Claes Uggla, and fought in the Battle of Öland. She was surrounded early in the battle, and fought for two hours until her main mast"
"identity of the wreck as the Bodekull of the Swedish navy. Bodekull was built in 1659-61 and sank in October 1678.https://www.archaeology.su.se/english/about-us/news/unique-17th-century-shipwreck-identified-1.331904 also https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1095-9270.12297 The sculptures associating to the ships name were usually located on the transom in the ships stern in these days. A glass bottle brought up from the ship bears an impressed crest of the Boynton or Ogle family, who both were based in Northumberland in northern England. Through dendrochronological analysis it has been determined that the timber used for the ship was cut no later than 1628 in Northern Europe, perhaps in Northumberland. A trade route linked"
"During its entire existence from 1731 to 1813, the SOIC made 131 voyages, using 37 different ships. Of these, eight ships were lost, totally or partially. The sorest loss was probably the ""Götheborg"" in 1745, as it sank just off Älvsborg fortress at the entrance to Gothenburg having managed to journey safely to China and back. Even though most books were burned, it is evident that the voyages were extremely profitable for the shareholders, and many Swedes became wealthy due to the SOIC. From Gothenburg the vessels carried iron, both in bars and processed, as axes, anchors, steel, etc. Copper"
"Sea. Under the orders of King Gustavus II Adolphus, the immense vessel was built to support Swedish military campaigns during the Thirty Years' War, yet was toppled by swift winds at sea. The Vasa remained peacefully underwater until a team of archaeologists raised the wreck in 1961. Fortunately, the wreck and all of its belongings were salvaged, despite its lengthily time spent on the ocean floor. Today, the Swedish ""Vasa"" museum in Stockholm is an emblem of cultural heritage, dedicated to educating public citizens worldwide. In 1985, two scientists discovered the ""RMS"" Titanic in the northern waters of the Atlantic"
"Kronan (ship) Kronan, also called Stora Kronan, was a Swedish warship that served as the flagship of the Swedish Navy in the Baltic Sea in the 1670s. When built, she was one of the largest seagoing vessels in the world. The construction of ""Kronan"" lasted from 1668 to 1672 and was delayed by difficulties with financing and conflicts between the shipwright Francis Sheldon and the Swedish admiralty. After four years of service, the ship foundered in rough weather at the Battle of Öland on 1 June 1676: while making a sharp turn under too much sail she capsized, and the"
"the king's death in 1632. These ships, especially ""Kronan"" and ""Scepter"", were much more successful and served as flagships in the Swedish navy until the 1660s. The second of the so-called ""regalskepp"" (usually translated as 'royal ships'), ""Äpplet"" ('The Apple'; the Swedish term for the globus cruciger), was built simultaneously with ""Vasa"". The only significant difference between the design of ""Vasa"" and her sister ship was an increase in width of about a metre (3.1 ft). In the early 1620s, work at the Stockholm navy yard was led by a pair of Dutch-born entrepreneurs, Antonius Monier and master shipwright Henrik"
"When the ""Vasa"" sunk in 1628, it was deemed to be wrongly constructed and she was bankrupted. She retired to the Viby estate and married the Swedish envoy to France, diplomat and nobleman Lars Nilsson Tungel. Margareta Hybertsson Margareta Hybertsson (d. 1630) was a Swedish businessperson and shipbuilder. She completed the building of the ""Vasa"". Margareta was first married to Henrik Hybertsson, who was engaged to build the ""Vasa"" in 1625. When she was widowed in 1627, she took over the share of her late spouse and the responsibility to complete the building of the ""Vasa"" a task she fulfilled"
"of ""Fogel Grip"" and ""Kalmar Nyckel"" are kept at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1938 the Swedish mail issued a commemorative stamp of both ships. Fogel Grip Fogel Grip (""Bird Griffin"", Swedish: Fågel Grip) was a Swedish sailing ship originally built in the Netherlands in the early 17th century. She was used on the first Swedish expedition in 1638 together with ""Kalmar Nyckel"" to establish the colony of New Sweden. Little is known about the vessel. ""Fogel Grip"" was a full-rigged pinnace about long. Originally built in the Netherlands in the early 17th century the ship"
"the Bodekull which sank in 1678. Dalarö wreck The Dalarö wreck (also ""Edesö Wreck"") is a shipwreck of a 17th-century ship lying in the waters off Edesön near Dalarö, southeast of Stockholm, Sweden. It is the remains of a three-masted armed vessel. It was discovered in 2003 but it was not made public until March 2007. It has been suggested that the wreck is the remains of a ship called ""Krönta Lejonet"" (""The Crowned Lion"") that belonged to Swedish nobleman Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie. This ship disappear from the written sources around 1660. In May 2017 Dr Niklas Eriksson"
"combination of factors. The king, who was leading the army in Poland at the time of her maiden voyage, was impatient to see her take up her station as flagship of the reserve squadron at Älvsnabben in the Stockholm Archipelago. At the same time the king's subordinates lacked the political courage to openly discuss the ship's problems or to have the maiden voyage postponed. An inquiry was organised by the Swedish Privy Council to find those responsible for the disaster, but in the end no one was punished. During the 1961 recovery, thousands of artifacts and the remains of at"
"arriving in July 2006, with a mixed crew of professionals and students. The ship has since travelled to many locations and maritime events across the world. The actual name of the replica is ""Götheborg III"". It is a replica of the ""Götheborg"" that sank outside Gothenburg in 1745. A second ship with the same name was built in Gothenburg in 1786. It was the second largest, (the largest being the ""Drottningen""), of all the SOIC vessels and made three journeys to Canton: 2February 1788 – 13May 1790, 13November 1791 – 12June 1793, and on 5December 1795, the ship sailed for"
"the Royal National City Park in Stockholm. The ship is one of Sweden's most popular tourist attractions and has been seen by over 35 million visitors since 1961. Since her recovery, ""Vasa"" has become a widely recognised symbol of the Swedish 'great power period' and is today a ""de facto"" standard in the media and among Swedes for evaluating the historical importance of shipwrecks. The ship was built on the orders of the King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus as part of the military expansion he initiated in a war with Poland-Lithuania (1621–1629). It was constructed at the navy yard in"
"of the Swedish freighter ""Jönköping"" in the Gulf of Finland, the ship was chartered to deliver spirits, via neutral Sweden, to the Imperial Court of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. The ship was torpedoed in 1916 by a German submarine during World War I and a majority of the bottles survived in the frigid waters. About 2000 bottles were salvaged from the ship and have been sold at auctions all over the world as a historic novelty. In July 2010, a group of Swedish divers found 168 bottles from the 1830s aboard a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea off the"
"Anders Franzén Anders Franzén (23 July 1918 – 8 December 1993) was a Swedish marine technician and an amateur naval archaeologist. He is most famous for having located the 1628 wreck of the Swedish galleon ""Vasa"" in 1956 and participated in her salvage 1959–1961. He also participated in the salvage and exploration of the wrecks after ""Kronan"", ""Riksäpplet"", ""Resande Man"", and ""Lybska Svan"". Franzén studied naval architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), but instead developed a strong interest for history and never graduated. He took employment with BP and later changed to the Swedish Naval Administration (which was"
"Gribshunden Gribshunden or Griffen (English: ""Griffin-Hound"" or ""Griffin""), also known by several variant names including Gribshund, Gripshunden, Gripshund, Griff, and Griffone, was a Danish warship, the flagship of John, King of Denmark (r. 1481–1513). ""Gribshunden"" sank in 1495 after catching fire while in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Ronneby in southeastern Sweden; she is one of the best-preserved wrecks from the late medieval period. The first known mention of the ship is in a letter, dated May 16, 1486, in which John, King of Denmark, wrote ""in navi nostra ""Griffone"""", Latin for ""in our ship ""Griffon"""". ""Gribshunden"" and"
"1627, was the first of the large ships to be built under this contract. The other large ship, Äpplet, was laid down in 1627 and entered service in 1629. Neither of the smaller ships was built before the Crown cancelled all of its external contracts in the winter of 1628-29. After Henrik Hybertsson's death in the late spring of 1627, his widow, Margareta Nilsdotter (d. 1630), inherited responsibility for completion of the contract, but while she was an accomplished businesswoman in her own right and had responsibility for the management of the rural estates which provided part of the family's"
"Götheborg (ship) Götheborg is a sailing replica of the Swedish East Indiaman ""Götheborg I"", launched in 1738 (not to be confused with the larger ""Götheborg II"" built some decades later). All sailors survived when the original ship sank off Gothenburg, Sweden, on 12September 1745, while approaching the harbour on her return from a third voyage to China. Construction of the replica started in 1995, with the hull launched in 2003, and the rig fully tested for the first time in 2005. Much of the time was spent researching how to rebuild the replica. In 2008, ""Götheborg"" completed the first ""Baltic"
"Kalmar Nyckel Kalmar Nyckel (""Key of Kalmar"") was a Dutch-built armed merchant ship famed for carrying Swedish settlers to North America in 1638, to establish the colony of New Sweden. A replica of the ship was launched at Wilmington, Delaware, in 1997. ""Kalmar Nyckel"" was constructed in about 1625, and was of a design called a pinnace. The ship was originally named ""Sleutel"" (Dutch for key), and to distinguish it from several other ships called ""Key"" it was known by the name of the city of Kalmar, which purchased the ship in 1629, as its contribution to a state-sponsored trading"
"were found on the softer sediments of the bottom. All the finds were on the bottom. No digging or use of a water eductor was done. The finds have been submitted to the Gothenburg Maritime museum."" Lots of porcelain shards were found strewn over the sea floor. In 1986, research in archives and examination of the wreck site had confirmed the find as the ship Götheborg from 1738, and the Gothenburg Maritime museum was given permission from the Swedish National Heritage Board to excavate the site. At the same time the ""East Indiaman Götheborg Foundation"" (the first foundation) was established,"
"ship. In the summer of 1628, the captain responsible for supervising construction of the ship, Söfring Hansson, arranged for the ship's stability to be demonstrated for the Vice Admiral responsible for procurement, Klas Fleming, who had recently arrived in Stockholm from Prussia. Thirty men ran back and forth across the upper deck to start the ship rolling, but the admiral stopped the test after they had made only three trips, as he feared the ship would capsize. According to testimony by the ship's master, Göran Mattson, Fleming remarked that he wished the king were at home. Gustavus Adolphus had been"
"and a draft of . She has a top speed of and carries 148 passengers. MV Angantyr The Angantyr is a Swedish motor vessel, and former steam ship, that was built in 1909 at Motala Verkstads Nya AB. She now operates cruises and charters for the Strömma Kanalbolaget and is a listed historic ship of Sweden. ""Angantyr"" was built as a steam ship by the Motala Verkstads Nya AB in Motala and delivered in May 1909 to the Stockholms Ångslups AB of Stockholm for use on Lake Malaren. She was a sister ship to ""Valkyrian"" (now ""Drottningholm""), built the same"
"designs eventually led to the famous Swedish war ships Jarramas (Yaramaz) and Jilderim (Yıldırım). Meanwhile, Russia and Poland regained and expanded their borders. Great Britain, an adversary of Sweden, defected from its alliance obligations while Prussia attacked Swedish holdings in Germany. Russia occupied Finland (the Greater Wrath 1713–1721). After defeats of the Swedish army, consisting mainly of Finnish troops in the Battle of Pälkäne 1713 and the Battle of Storkyro 1714, the military, administration and clergymen escaped from Finland, which fell under Russian military regime. Augustus II regained the Polish throne. Charles agreed to leave Constantinople and returned to Swedish"
"was torpedoed and sunk between Nynäshamn and Visby by a Soviet submarine. At 05:57 a torpedo caused a large explosion, and the ship sank within a few minutes. 84 people died and two survived, including the then Swedish Army captain Arne Mohlin. The two survivors were rescued by the Swedish minesweepers ""Landsort"" and ""Arholma"". Investigations after the war pointed to the Soviet submarine ""L21"" as being responsible for the sinking. SS Hansa (1899) The Hansa was a Swedish passenger ship, in use on the route between the Swedish mainland and Visby. She was torpedoed and sunk by a Soviet submarine"
"National Naval Museum (Marinmuseum). Outside the city lies the archipelago of Karlskrona, the most southern of the Swedish archipelagos. Several islands are connected to the city by ferries. The city was founded on 10 August 1680 when the Royal Swedish Navy was relocated from the Stockholm area to the Trossö island which had up until then been used chiefly for farming and grazing. At the time Sweden was the dominant military power in the Baltic sea region, but needed a better strategic location against Denmark, since southern parts of Sweden had been conquered only a few decades before (see the"