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Do You Know That? The Oldest Warship In The World

Published: 25.3.2012
Our journey Scandinavian tour will introduce us first the Sweden, where it will be our destination Vasamuseet Stockholm Museum, hiding one of the most beautiful ship the world.

Who knows a little bit history of Sweden, he certainly has the name of the museum tells the sometimes inappropriate BEST warship is famous Vasa. It was built around 1625 by King Gustav II. Adolf gave her name after the ruling dynasty, a Vasa. The 400 workers worked hard on the Queen of the seas, that their weapons, massive size and had the best decorations capture the power of Sweden.

It was the unreal demands on the builders and then ship building construction opportunities should result in overall instability of the rules. Two floors of ship shot, richly decorated trucks, crew of 137 sailors to 300 soldiers and more than 66 works ... all this has resulted in one of embarrassed ceremonial performances, the maritime world has ever seen. When the 10th August 1628 Vasa set sail on her maiden voyage, was fired in honour of the ceremonial volley. Thrill of the hull, powerful gusts of wind, and soon after leaving the famous Vasa went down. Open hatches gun broke into the trunk water and the final destruction of the ship was not long in coming.

The wreck remained hidden in the depths of the Baltic Sea for centuries, where, fortunately, unlike other marine discreet mollusk called Teredo navalis, Sea "termite" who else shipwrecks reliably disposed. In light of the world de Vasa looked up in April of 1961, after 333 years after his infamous premiere. Meets with her were collected at 14 000 wooden objects and more than 700 sculptures. There were preserved skeletons of 12 sailors from the original 30 missing. Unbelievable maintained the magnificent ship wreck gave rise to one of the most interesting and certainly the most visited Scandinavian museums. Today you can see the 69-meter long beauty with almost complete armament of a single maritime museum of its kind in the world.

More information on http://www.vasamuseet.se/sv/Sprak/etina/

text: Jan Chaloupka

photo: archive of Vasamuseet.se



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