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As a swedish comedian once said. When foreign friends are visiting and asking if the ship was at sea for long. Laugh nervously and reply: several hundred years.
As a swede who’s been to see the ship 3 times in my life and forever been awestruck by it and loved those old sailships ever since, its amazingly cool to see it. It looks like a ghost ship or the black pearl from pirates of the Caribbean. Its super cool.
Should have learned from King Canute, Dane, of England. Canute was widely known for his brilliance and wisdom, an unusual combination then as well as now. His courtier's compliments getting out of hand however. "You control the wind and the tides." Canute ordered his throne carried to water's edge at low tide. The tide rose. Canute ordered the tide back. Tide came on. Canute ordered it back. And so on. Throne flooded. Canute didn't say a word. When the tide finally receded the throne was carried back to his great hall. Courtier's abashed. 🤦♂️ Learned a lesson.
I visited the museum on a trip to Sweden, it's incredibly intact and there is so many interesting things. If you're going to Sweden make shure you stop by.
I bet Sweden has now regained all the money lost from building the ship beacuse of it now being in Swedens maybe most popular museum and tourist attraction. Good job Gustav totaly worth it! Update: it looks like the Vasa cost a little over 5% of Swedens GNP at the time. Mayby we did not regain the money, but ship was much better suited for being admired on land anyway. Gustav just invested in a future museum, his plan all along.
Funniest part was that the area where the ship sank wasn't deep enough to submerge all of it. The main mast was still sticking out of the water. They just cut the top off to not impede other traffic..
@@TheGrace020 even worse is that no one could swim, so most people drowned. close enough for people to see others drown, not close enough to rescue them in time. the video skips over just how many people died
Imagine being one of the builders of the ship that worked for two years just to see it sink within a couple of minutes on its first voyage, that's heartbreaking.
Imagine being a crew member that conducted stability test and then going on voyage knowing you are going to die. I think thats more heartbreaking, dont u think so?😬
8:36 Funny story about pulling Vasa from the sea. During that time, some Finnish technology students were visiting in Sweden. If someone doesn't know, the technology students like to do pranks and they are known for that (at least in Finland). So, those students decided to dive and place a miniature statue of Paavo Nurmi (Finnish runner) on the deck of Vasa. When the ship was pulled out from the water, Paavo Nurmi was the first thing to appear. First, the statue was thought to be some kind of Roman/Greek god but then Finnish press recognised the identity of statue.
Almost the exact same thing happened to the Mary Rose just outside of portsmouth less than 100 years earlier. Apparenly History really does repeat itself when people refuse to learn from it...
Or it turned too quickly taking on water through the hatches for the cannons while under attack from the French, no one actually knows the real reason.
@@cornovii3012 Due to the refit it the MR had recently undergone where they had massively increased the armaments, taking the overall weight up well beyond the original rating and raising the center of gravity. Agree it was due to turning a corner, but the root cause of instability, and the leaning over aspect is virtually identical, one turned a corner, the other got tipped by the wind, both had the exact same overloading/instability problems, and both sank in almost the exact same way by leaning over too far and water flooding in through the gun ports.
In the Netherlands, back when it was the Seven Provinces, one of the provinces "Friesland" decided its admiralty needed some big ships. They build them at Harlingen.. but they never left port.. they couldn't.. they never could. It wasn't deep enough.
@@sevret313 Your Majesty will unfortunately need to choose either model from the programm. The Trevlig Resa will bring more sailors further while the Hela Bredden will hurl a lot of iron towards your enemy.
@@georgf9279 And for the price of one Vasa, you could get a large fleet of Ikea warships. Just make sure to not mix up the cannonballs and the meatballs.
As a proud swede, it hurts that this guy knows more about our history than our history books. Our books only talked about the building and disaster of this ship, and never why it was bulit. Great video!
(Scoff) Try American history classes and books. We're not even as old as Sweden and they still make it a hidden effort and struggle to misinform us and not teach us everything that should be taught. Most of us have to run to RU-vid, and history sites or even people from other countries to learn what should've been a history lesson.
I have a conspiracy theory that history textbook publishers were ordered to make school history books as boring as a possible in order to kill any interest in "further researching it"
It's a war ship, do you need any more context as to why it was built? :) I'm pretty sure we only touched on Vasa briefly while reading about the conflicts of the time in my history classes.
Fun fact about the recovery of the Vasa, my great-grandfather was one of the architects that designed the shipyard where the conservation of the ship took place before they built the new museum that today houses the ship! Another fun fact about the provisional shipyard is that it later became an aquarium.
@@V3ntilator Rookie mistake, never drive in Stockholm, it’s almost impossible to find parking in the city and if you do it is ridiculously expensive. Luckily public transport is very good. There is a museum tram line from the city center to the Vasa Museum so you can get something extra from the travel as well. Or you can take the commuter ferry (same ticket as with the buss or train, no extra cost) from Södermalm, and enjoy the view from the water.
@@lobaxx I noticed that. At least it's easy to park in Hammarsby / Mårgendalen. 250.- for each 24 hours isn't more than it costs in Oslo, so the price were okay for me. Anyways. Because of the the pandemic, it's not easy to get back there from Norway etc. without quarantine nowadays. Can't even get to Gothenburg which is nearby Norway.
Sweden: "Greatest warship of all time" - barely gets out of the harbour before sinking Titanic: "The unsinkable ship" - Sinks on its maiden voyage I'm noticing a trend here
The trend is "People's ignorance always makes them think they're smart." This means you. First of all it's only the Swedish king who wanted "the greatest warship of all time" but there are actually records of more heavily armed Portuguese and Spanish war galleons which were around before Wasa. Fact is the Swedish war ship Mars built in 1564 was bigger (sunk in a battle). Aside from its heavy cannons the Wasa had nothing which could make it earn a "greatest warship of all time" moniker. It was just Swedish bragging - especially *after* she sank when the people exaggerated her size and power. The heaviest and most heavily armed battleship ever, the Yamato, was sent on its single mission to the battle of Okinawa in April 1945. She was sunk by airplanes and submarines who hit her with 10 torpedoes(!) and 7 bombs. This proved once and for all that the era of the battleship was over and that no battleship - not even the greatest ever like the Yamato - was a match for attack aircraft and submarines on her own. What was this "pattern" you're talking about for the Yamato? "Titanic: "The unsinkable ship" Nobody claimed Titanic was unsinkable. Not the White Star Line themselves nor the newspapers who wrote about her. Fact is the newspapers were mostly writing about her *luxury* and *size* . Why? Because people wanted to read about all the luxury the ship came equipped with. *A few technical magazines* - for people who were interested in the engineering *itself* - wrote about her water-tight bulkheads which made her "practically unsinkable". PRACTICALLY. AFTER she sank some people who had read those technical magazines said:"Well, I guess they were wrong." Eventually PRACTICALLY unsinkable was FORGOTTEN (by the likes of you who deal with rumors and hearsay rather than fact and credible sources) and myths were spread the ship had been called "unsinkable". "I'm noticing a trend here" Me too. You being a myopic cretin. A fool if you will. And if you're going to pull that pathetic excuse:"I wasn't serious, I was only making a joke." Well, then your humor is on the baby level too. You see, good humor is witty, clever or has levels. "Noticing a trend" - as funny as the latest overused meme. I'm noticing a trend. You not going anywhere in life.
@@equestriangirly2296 Wow, I am noticing a trend to. You are unnecessarily rude to someone who is just making a joke. Do you guys have a history together, otherwise I don't see why you would have to make it personal like 4 times in a post. Where is the common decency? Based on this it seems to me you are the one that is not going anywhere in life, people don't take kindly to people who are this rude. Btw, Your information on the Yamato is flawed. The Yamato had a lot of missions before Operation Ten-Go. She was at Midway (not with the Kido Butai, but in the trailing force of Admiral Yamamoto), she was torpedoed and repaired, was present at the Battles of the Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf (not really involved, but present), was damaged by bombs from planes from the carries USS Essex in the battle of Sibuyan Sea, and took part in the Battle off Samar. So she has an extensive record of missions, she just didn't attribute much to those battles. So, to take over your style, YOU ARE AN IDIOT. You just believe the fairy tales of Yamato only being in Japan because the Japanese feared she would be sunk, instead of doing research, checking facts and credible sources. People's ignorance always makes them think they're smart." This means you. You are a fool, and don't try to pull any pathetic excuses, if you want to talk someone down like you did you better have your facts straight, you myopic cretin. You wouldn't recognise good humor if it hit you in the face. You are not going anywhere in life. I hope you get my point. It's better to be nice to people, and recpectfully explain what they do wrong, that way they may learn something. If we just all have a basic level of respect for one another, this world will be a better place.
_Olympic_ was dubbed “practically” unsinkable first, and despite running into trouble repeatedly throughout her career, she never sank. But if you insist on superstitious cherry-picking, the German battleship _Bismarck_ sank on her maiden voyage, though the circumstances of her loss shouldn’t be held against her.
If you’re in Stockholm during non-pandemic times I’d recommend going to the Vasa Museum to check out the ship in person. It’s a pretty awesome experience. It’s been super well preserved considering it was only raised from the water recently.
@@Tzilandi If my calculations are correct, there was no 6-year-old Swedish kid blowing raspberries at the ship from a nearby beach in the 17th century. That would have happened in the 21st century.
Just discovered your videos yesterdays and i love it, especially the one's around nation's regional geography. You keep it pretty damn accurate and the vulgarisation with video game meta rules are really cool
The funny thing about comparing the Death star to the Vasa is it needed to vent heat and was made to engage with capital ships with a massive starfighter wing on board and Luke had to use the force to bend the torpedos 90 degrees into the exhaust port. The Vasa did not need to be built top-heavy and lop sided.
I remember watching one of your videos a while ago, and I had recently remembered your channel. I find it interesting that this ship was something that was built. I can’t imagine being on a replica of the Vasa, with that many cannons on it. It’s terrible it sank from a breeze, but hey, flaws makes people human. And flaws allow for us to improve. You make great videos, and I’m so glad to be back watching them again
Despite great successes on the battlefield, inadequate economy and small manpower caused the demise of the Swedish Empire, which ended its 110-year period as a great power in 1721. At the time of the Thirty Years War Finns represented essential part of the Swedish army. Roughly 2/5 from the infantry and 3/7 from the cavalry in the army were from FINLAND. They served in their own units which used Finnish as their main language. Approximately 110 000 soldiers from Finland lost their lives serving the Swedish Empire between 1617-1721. The point is that without the military support of the Finns, Sweden would not have gotten so far...
@@gagex6345 yes and no, finnland was for all intents and purposes part of sweden back then, Rome would never have become an empire if it only ever used soldiers from the city of Rome itself...
i meen we do have some of the most advanced ships in the world nowdays (although only a handfull of them) i recomend looking up the Gotland class submarine or Visby class corvette
I went to the Vaasa museum years ago on my honeymoon and it was absolutely spectacular. I wish I could go see it again and really appreciate it more, as well as pay my respects to the people who died aboard. Thanks for reminding me of a better time.
Why on earth you didn't include a single image or clip of the actual intact ship found inside the musuem I will never understand, theres plenty of videos of it on youtube.
Its honestly amazing to see it in real life for the first time. It’s fucking massive and beautiful, it looks like a spooky ghost ship. Most people here though have seen it’s several times already so it’s not that amazing anymore but if you’re ever in Stockholm check it out, it’s really fascinating.
My dad was working in Stockholm when I was 11 and I went over there. We went to the Vasa museum, it’s till the best I’ve ever been to. It is massive, the carvings and the work put into is unreal. Well worth a visit if you go. I was on two planes on my own coming home on 9/11 and it was my first day at secondary school. Won’t go on a plane again lol
If you ever get to visit Stockholm, be sure to visit the Vasa Museum. It’s well-run, the docents are all very knowledgeable so there’s lots to learn, and the ship herself is beautiful to see. It was definitely one of the best things we did on our vacation.
@@caleb.z I don't know about that and it's not my point. Just because no politicians had their sticky fingers in the design process, the project can still fail. But when some politicians or other non-experts make design changes on the go, the chances of a project to fail increase a lot.
@@gonun69 you were right as the incidents on ships like HMS Hood(she couldve gotten an upgrade on armor in the 1930s but they canceled it and decided to send her to circumnavigate the world instead)and KMS Bismarck(not even his admiral was happy with the ship gettibg sent to convoy raiding but Shitler wants Bismarck to get sent there anyways) but on the Titanic it probably has something to do with the officers or the budget of White Star Line when they made the ship plus it was supposed to have some counter-sinking technology things right?
They sent some poor sods down in some pretty basic diving bells back when it sank to retrieve some of the cannons. Also the Vasa Museum in Stockholm is WELL worth a visit.
I saw the title and hoped this was about the Vasa! Thank you for not disappointing me! I highly recommend the Vasa Museum. I didn't expect a lot but it was fantastic!
Look up man of the hour by falconer, please. It’s a very underrated Swedish power metal group and their song Man of the Hour is about this exact ship/the one battle it fought in and was destroyed in
Ah shit, upon reading more comments it looks like the song I mentioned is about another ship in the almost exact same predicament in nearly the same place, the Mary rose. When fighting the French in its first battle, it tried to take too sharp of a turn and, having the same exact problem the vasa had of being overweighed on one side, capsized immediately. My mistake, though you should still check out the song man!
I visited the Vasa Museum in Stockholm back in 2017 on a Baltic cruise! If I remember correctly, a combination of factors helped slow the Vasa's decay while it was submerged for all that time - hence why it's so intact.
A similar thing happened to Henry VIII's flagship, the Mary Rose. It was so overloaded with cannons that when they fired a salute to the King on its maiden launch from Portsmouth, the recoil blew the ship onto its side and capsized it 😂
I havent finished the video yet so i dont know if he mentions this. But this ship was recovered from the sea and is in a museum in stockholm right now and i have visited it. It was epic!
Flying aircraft carriers were briefly a thing - lighter-than-air airships with aircraft bays. But they proved to be impractical. Slow, expensive, dangerous to operate, and very fragile.
I've been at the Vasa museum and seen the ship with my own eyes. The sheer scale of it is just staggering, something that can't quite be fully grasped when looking at pictures or video of it. Very cool stuff.
I've been to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm. It's very interesting. The entire ship (over 80% original) is on display, along with a model and its entire story. Several of the original colorful carved figures are also on display. The ship is a fantastic artwork ... not much of a military ship though.
as a kid i was told stories of the vasa, specifically that the amount of leeches in the area it sunk were significally the year after it sunk, which leaves a nice mental image
Me. Sometimes I come for a video only to watch comments, or if I don't have my earphones, I watch comments to understand what the video is talking about, if I'm in a public or professional place where I don't have them or can't use them.
As a fellow Scandinavian I feel a sense of sadness. However, as a Norwegian I cannot help myself thinking LOL, LMAO, LOL, LMAO, *typical swedes*, LOL, LMAO :')
Honestly as a swede, the story of the Vasa is endlessly amusing to me as well. if it was actually built well it would've been sad, but since it was never gonna last long regardless it's much better that a breeze toppled it immediately.
What's even more ridiculous and amusing is... Swedes for a time were trying to cover up their mistakes by accusing Poles of sending agents to sabotage the building of Vasa.
I share your feeling on the second part ;D Had swedes succeed on building these, no one knows but at worst there could be just one country in scandinavia today.. So, lucky we! :)
I live like an hour away from the Vasa museum. My class went there a bunch of times when I was little. It's a really cool place with an interesting story behind it
A few important things missing: 1. due to time constraints, they had not put in all the ballast yet at the maiden joerney, they was planning to do this later. 2. they had more sail out then the wind called for, because they wanted it to look more impressive to the crowd. 3. the cannons wasn't secured. Because this first joerney was planned to be a short one inside Mälaren and not in the open sea. When the ship tilted the heavy cannons (and balls) slided over to the lower side. 3. they had more people onboard than it was designed for and most was on the top deck, making it even more destabilised.
That was worlds first U-ship! "U" stands for unstable, how ever if you would to decide to visist sweden and go to the ship. I recommend to be there really really early.
