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Swede here. Great video! I visited the Vasa museum in Stockholm a few years ago and it was lovely. Unfortunately it’s kind of a “ship of Theseus” situation because they have to switch out the planks semi regularly to prevent decay. Your pronunciations were fine, not perfect, but that’s what to be expected from a non-native speaker. Overall you did great! Thanks for covering Vasa.
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If you are ever in Stockholm the Vasa museum is THE place to visit. Very cool seeing this huge ship and hearing what life was like for a ship crew at this time .
How many Europeans do visit Stockholm? And how many Yanks? I fear for the worst. And still, Stockholm is great, it must be, it is Scandinavian. Fools, go there! Yes, you!
The Vasa did inadvertently become one of the best quality mostly intact examples of a ship of the line at the time because of the water conditions in the harbor in which she foundered immediately
I was watching a video series from Drachinifel visiting the Vasa museum. Another mindblowing age of sail fact is that Sir Francis Drake raided a harbor the Spanish were preparing their Armada in and caused the modern equivalent of $2.4 trillion dollars in a single afternoon. And the Spanish Armada sailed the next year still fielding the largest sea-going navy at the time
Technically the ship of the line hadn’t been invented yet because line battle tactics didn’t exist yet. Ship classification is dizzyingly complicated, with terms changing meaning based on time and place so I have no idea what type the Vasa would be considered. This was the same period in which the galley made a comeback because full-rigged ships of the time were hilariously bad at utilizing gun armaments.
I visited the Vasa museum last year while on a 2 day stopover cruise she is an amazing sight ! along with all her well preserved artifacts.anyone visiting Stockholm should add the Vasa museum to there list of places to see.
Cool video! As a Swede who grew up in a Stockholm suburb, I visited the Vasa museum with school several times over the years, and it really is something special!
I had heard stories that the reason the Vasa had sunk was because it was retrofitted from a hull designed for a smaller warship to cut costs, but this make much more sense.
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It's worth noting the the preservation of the ship wasn't perfect. It was rushed and thus the wood has begun to decay. Ironically, it was safer under water. When my mother was young, the ship's condition was good enough to allow people to walk onto it. But as time goes, the wood decays. They keep having to replace parts and the few times I've had the opportunity to be there and see it in person, the deck has been off limits due to its poor condition.
Thats the sad part about conversatorship. Most of the times pieces are either stored in archives ,often not even catalogued (so with little to no value to science) or the pieces get treated with a rush job so be economically more viable.
One thing you didn't mention was that Vasa's upper gun deck had 24 pound guns - the same weight as the guns in her main gun deck. In many ways, Vasa's failure is what led to the standardization of wooden warships having their heaviest guns on the main (bottom) gun deck and progressively lighter guns in the upper decks.
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yeah we swedes have a tendency of sending our flagships to the bottom of the sea, we got Vasa and then Kronan (the crown) got blown to smitherines by it's own gunpowder, taking our other flagship, svärdet (the sword) with it to keep it company underwater
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Vasa is in spectacular condition, and the video title is very fitting. To me, Kronan is _the_ thing. Capsizing while turning, then blowing up from self-inflicted damage and sinking in full view of an oppositive naval force, as well as being the flagship at the time of catastrophic failure. Causing disarray in the Swedish battle line, the next ship in line to be the flagship getting sunk (Svärdet), as well as the loss of the admiral. -More days like June 1. Hurrah :) Greetings from, Copenhagen, Denmark.
It must have been pretty weird being a Danish sailor seeing this absolute behemoth of a ship, the largest one in the Baltic sea cresting over the horizon sailing straight towards you. And then it just fucking falls over and explodes. We Swedes had some shit luck when it came to ships back then.
You forgot to mention the most amazing part. They found a statue of Paavo Nurmi on the ship. Finnish long-distance runner who was banned from the olympics in 1930's due to swedish protest. I wonder how that came to be.. :-)
@@nicholasproductions237 Im not sure if you are familiar with the story but 2 finnish engineering students dove there a day before they were going to lift it. It was just this miniature pronze statue with latin text "Greatest finnish long-distance runner". It was simply done as a gag. They made a press release pretty soon after it revealing the whole thing.
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The whole ship is also skewed. One reason for that is the builders were from sweden and holland, which at the time used different length inches so the planks are measured inconsistently.
my reading of the records was that the captain complained that the motly crew spoke several different languages, were nearly impossible to get to do anything in a timely fashon. so the order to close the lower gunports likely was never received much less done...
I think it was all worth it. They didn’t know it but they were constructing one of the best conditioned, historical sail ship in the world on a 300 year… aging plan.
also naval guns were often made from bronze, and bronze was a LIMITED RESOURCE, but many countrys had large pools of recruits for seamen, so guns were more valuable than crew, which is why BOARDING MADE SENSE; AS YOU WOULD SHIFT THE BALANCE OF WAR not by 1 ships worth of artillery but 2 ships woth of artillery if you manage to capture a ship of the enemy, which then meant you could rebuild the battered hull or give the guns/recast them, an put them on a new ship of yours.
The gun ports of Vasa were all painted red on the inside and a carved lion's head decorated with gold leaf was mounted on it. So of course during the maiden voyage all gun ports were open to display all the golden lions on red background.
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There are some minor mistakes, leading to a different conclusion. One, canons in naval warfare were already decisive since a century. Looking at the Dutch, French, Spanish and British warships. Second, there were designs of double deck canons and then why not hire a foreign shipbuiler or, like Tsar Peter the Great, send people over to learn? Sweden made the mistake of wanting to do all by its own. For that, the king is solely responsible.
Another little fun fact about the Ship in its rushed production needed alot of workers who not all spoke Swedish. Dou to the poor procces of making of the ship one side was made with measurements of the Metric system the other was made with the imperial system. And yea this was not converted properly which was later found out when blueprints of the ship was found.
Its even more embarresing when you know that the brittish had already managed to build a 55 gun three decked ship in 1610. The prince royal i think it was called
@@jonomoth2581not true. Mary Rose was 33 years old when she sank. The cause was similar. She had recently been rebuilt to carry more guns which made her too unstable.
I enjoyed this video! However.. you called this the greatest maritime disaster.. ever heard the name.. Wilhelm Gustloff? My only gripe tho, keep up the good work!
"SANK". Sunk is the past participle. They teach this in the first few years of school. Even if you left school at 12, you learned this. "Sank is the past tense (e.g., the ship sank to the bottom of the sea). Sunk is the past participle, so it's used in the perfect tenses (e.g., the ship has sunk to the bottom of the sea) and as an adjective (the sunk ship is at the bottom of the sea)."
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I love the childishness of the concept. "Hmm if we make a ship bigger than other ships then we'll always win!!". As if no one would have ever gone that route before if it was that easy.
