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It’s among the best preserved 17th-century ships and the discoveries keep coming. Vasa, a Swedish warship that sank minutes into its maiden voyage in 1628, was pulled from the Stockholm harbor ...
The royal warship Vasa is seen at the Vasamuseet museum in Stockholm on April 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Scanpix Sweden ... told The Associated Press that women were not part of the crew in the Swedish navy ...
Emailed a photo of the mural, Vasa Museum spokeswoman Martina Siegrist ... the mural shows Vasa since it is the most well-known Swedish warship of all times.” Beside housing the ship itself ...
The warship ... the sister ship of "Vasa," a different Swedish warship. A gunport of the warship Applet is seen at a strait at Vaxholm, Sweden, in this undated image. (photo credit: Museum ...
Had its launch succeeded, Vasa may well have been the most powerful warship in the world at that time ... Vasa’s recovery in the 1960s has allowed a glimpse of life into Swedish sailors in the 17th ...
A Swedish museum has launched a massive four-year project to preserve the sagging hull of the Vasa, a majestic warship that sank nearly 400 years ago and is now one of Sweden's most popular ...
When the human remains found on board the Swedish warship Vasa (1628) were investigated, it was determined that the skeleton designated G was a man. New research now shows that the skeleton is ...
In 1628, at the height of Sweden’s military expansion, the Swedish navy built a new flagship, the Vasa. At the time it ... about the day that the warship was recovered in near-perfect condition.