Engineering problems sank the ship–but this PR disaster for the Swedish navy has become a boon for archaeologists. Here’s how it happened and how Vasa's influence is felt today. The sinking ...

The ship was so big that it took more than a year for it to be raised from the surface of the seabed. The Vasa has been put back together and extensively restored since then, with more than 95 ...

Unlike the Vasa, whose salvaged wreck is now a Stockholm ... after a more in-depth study of the ship’s dimensions, construction, wood samples and archives. Patrik Höglund, a maritime ...

The wood in the royal ship Vasa has been seriously affected by the biological and chemical processes that the hull was exposed to during its period under water (1628-1961), during its conservation ...

Swedish marine archaeologists have discovered the long-lost sister ship of the Vasa, a 17th-century warship considered one of the Swedish navy’s biggest achievements that sank soon after setting ...

Sweden is embarking on a colossal four-year project to safeguard a nearly 400-year-old warship that is the centrepiece of its famous Vasa Museum. The ship, one of Stockholm’s main tourist ...

Since then, the ship, which is largely intact, has been exhibited at the popular Vasa Museum. But preserving the wreck is complex: the wood has shrunk over the years and the hull is sagging due to ...

this maritime colossus was more than a ship; it was a floating declaration of imperial power,” says guide Karl Simon. Designed to carry an unprecedented arsenal of 64 bronze cannons, the Vasa ...