The Incredible Story of Sweden's Vasa Warship (4K) 

Sounds very much like when you see the Spruce Goose the first time! Thanks for sharing your experience!

First time is always magical. When I first visited the museum with my school I was blown away. And today I work there and I never get tired of the ship. It's a special feeling to be the first in the museum early in the morning before anyone arrives and to have the whole ship for your self. And when the day is over you simply just say ''good night'' and have the ship once again for your self before heading home. The best feeling is when you work at the information desk and see peoples jaw drop everytime and you get those flashbacks of yourself when you first saw the ship as well. And seeing all the people pouring in to the museum is quite fun as well, very lojal and friendly people. I'm happy that you liked your visit! :)

Great comment. I visited the museum just 3 weeks ago for the first time and had seen the pictures before. I can only agree, I didnt expect such a behemoth seeing it in person. Absolutely majestic.

I completely agree 👍

I recently visited the museum.

is the back a reproduction

I agree unlimited random information! Lots of history on youtube more than the damn history channel anymore

And just waint until we hit the next level of information acquisition! Stay tuned for 2030!

YT best site on the web, im on youtube all day every day, i am very dyslexic so for me its even more important, i can learn about stuff i would have zero chace of learning even if i had axcess to books ! if yt was around when i was born i would have smashed school and got straight A no problem, at least in the subjects i like.

@@mcpartridgeboy People tell me that if I were their teacher, they would have smashed school too. That's why I like making videos. I can definitely teach anything I find of interest.

The rigging on display are the original lower masts, that were still on the ship when found. As of now, the hemp rigging on display is one major concern for the conservators, as the weight of all that hemp rope is slowly crushing the hull. ( It will be decades before serious damage would occur though) The masts stickning out of the roof of the museum are obviously mockups, but they represent the actual size of the rigging when the ship would be floating.

Fotografiska is also amazing if you love art/photography. Two of my most favorites when in Stockholm. I can't never have enough of both ❤

Good joke, but not really. The rest of the 1600s and early 1700s was Sweden at its most imperialist as a country. That Dutch ship builder's fatal design mistake was embarrassing but didn't change any politics. And lots of other ships were built, of course.

@@herrbonk3635 But after Adolphus and the almost complete destruction of the Swedish army at Nordlingen Sweden was meh.

@@phillip_iv_planetking6354 Um...what? Ever heard of Lennart Torstensson? And the Caroleans?

There was a sistership called Äpplet that worked pretty well for some reason, and the loss of Vasa was not that big of a deal to the Swedish empire as it might seem.

@@Sulimaaren What about them? They were just footnotes.

Vasa: Hold my beer

What a dumb thing to say. People died. Both ships sunk on their maiden voyage. No one was lucky.

@@I_am_a_cat_I think you’ll get over it.

Right on ..My parent's took me to see it too..in 1977..i was seven..it was amasing..went to lots of old places through Europe..ended in stolkholm Sweden...where dads mom was from.. (she was from farther northern Sweden..in Stragnäs..we also saw the Swedish crown jewels too. My dads ashes are scattered in Stragnäs now..I wasn't with my sister for that.. but was by his deathbed..all the same...he's home..over his familys graves..just ashes scattered in the field..no stone markers. To you in Valhalla dad.🍻 .keep the light on.. see ya again some day.💙💛💙✌🇸🇪

I had the same tripp 1978 - Today I live in Sweden so i have the oportunity to visit this ship ever year if i like ....today Im at the bord of the new project - The plans are to rebuild it to a 100% replica ship ...It will be done - Trust me ...Donations are wellcome...2019 we are close to start of this amazing task to rebuild the Wasa ship ,,, Look at what we did with Ostindiafararen .... www.soic.se/

@@JohnSmith-cy9tt won't it just sink though?

I also saw it in that point of restoration in summer 1970, wearing the raincoat they provided, it was awesome experience 👏👌✌️

I've always wanted to visit NZ, we can switch for a month! Also you have excellent Maori wood carving too

They are doing everything they can to preserve it. Perhaps soon a oxygen free area would be required to preserve it.

Can you share a video?

i don't think God liked this ship. like... if this doesn't qualify as an "act of God" then i don't know what will.

it'sMe TheHerpes it wasn’t an act of god lmao, it was poor ship design, the hull wasn’t wide enough for the weight of the ship, on top of that the gun emplacements where far to close to the waterline, so when the gust of wind caught the sails the ship tipped because the hull was to narrow and then water came in through the gun ports. Don’t blame god for bad designs lmao

@@harleyokeefe5193 it was an act of god. but... at the end of the day, it depends on how you want to see things. if you want to put all those mishappenings together and say that it's a long set of coincidences one after another, yes you can do that. ANYWAY, even if i think that, i wasn't talking about that, but i was talking about the "act of god" law, that can be brought to court against insurance companies. they always look for ways not to pay you, and they NEVER pay you the full amount that that they should(let me explain using a real case scenario. one fellow that had a life insurance got cancer one day, and the insurance company, made investigations and they discovered that one of his tooth fillings is made out of a composite that is not used any more, so they blamed that for his cancer. so, instead of paying the full amount that was owed, they got away with paying 1/3 because of a tooth filling) BUT, if you can prove in court that it was an "act of god" and you literally had no doing in this, then they have to pay the full extent, plus something extra for the trial. SAVY ? ye' heathen.

it'sMe TheHerpes how is a badly designed ship a coincidence, there where no coincidences the ship was badly designed that why it sunk, period.

@@harleyokeefe5193 how does a team of workers and engineers that build ships FOR A LIVING totally miss out on the bad design of the ship ? did they all "accidentally" missed out the flaws ? idk.

Yes amazing

Michael bay would be the perfect director for a movie about the kronan.

Kronan was pretty cool,but the scanian war wasn’t 1768 it was 1676.

@@raymondleggs5508 call it Kronan the Barbarian.

If you ever visit Stockholm, don't miss the museum of maritime history. They have a great collection of high quality ship models.

I hope you can go someday! Don’t give up on that, ever.

Yes!

@@destinationsofhistory7077 i need an "REAL" life vasa ship btw hi from sweden

Lego is danish

@@Deripperda and?

78u89897 nothing lol

Wellcome back to Sweden - and support the new Project...rebuild WASA .....we did it with The East Indiaman Götheborg .. www.soic.se and we will do it with Wasa for sure

I hope you do! It would be amazing.

it took like 2 years between 1626-1628

Just came from the museum. About 400 people working on ut for 2 years.

Ya these days no one cares about the artistry. Just mass produced ugly designs. Sadly a lost art.

Looks amazing!

Glad you enjoyed it!

a fascinating sight to explore

It really is. God, I'd love to paint all those details.

Thanks for watching!

Yes agreed amazing even if it sunk!

Thanks for sharing your interesting story!!

_"Lucky for us"_ How? Other Swedish warships were not failures and Europe still exists.

@@herrbonk3635 poorly worded, perhaps. I just ment she sank intact as opposed to being blown up in battle. At the time she was useless, now she servs a purpose for people who have an interest in history.

@@miawrannert4161 Yes, there are many aspects.

I love the ship's history, I'm swedish btw.

I was bored when i went not much to do at all.

Thank you!

Thanks for watching!

This is actually not true. For a long time, we thought that the king ordered the extra deck DURING the building of the ship but he never did. The museum did say this for a long time but since 20 years back we had some new research that shows that the two ships, Vasa and The Apple (Royal orb, "Äpplet" could be the fruit or a royal orb in Swedish), was ordered to have two decks with guns, to begin with. We can see this in letters between the shipbuilder and the king, dated before the building had begun. The shipbuilder dies though and that spiralizes into a lot of difficulties during the construction.

It's a fantastic museum to visit. Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching!

village carpenter - Yes. And also when the King ordered more cannons mid-way during the construction, the hull of the ship was still in its original dimensions according to the original plans. So with the additional cannons, additional weight topside and with no further modifications to the hull to support the added topside weight, (the beam of the hull is now too narrow to support the added topside weight and too late and impossible to make modifications, so the original rock ballast is now insufficient with the added weight) eventually led to the Vasa’s demise. 🇸🇪

This is actually not correct. For a long time, we did think and say at the museum that the king ordered an extra gundeck but he never did. But for some 20 years back we did new research and we can, in letters between the shipbuilder and the king, see that the two decks were planned all along. What did complicate things during the construction was that the shipbuilder died midway and this made a lot of stuff happen that was not planned and made them push the deadline with about a year forward. The king DID send a man to Stockholm to see what was taking the construction such a long time in the hope to make them finish quicker.

@@spreadeagled5654 With the deadline way passed they were really stressed out. Normally they would have to try out the ship, reconstruct it, try it out again and then reconstruct it until it would sail perfectly. The guns that were ordered for the ship were not ready, and if they would wait for them they would have to wait until late fall. They did not want to do that so they took some other guns that had been made and put them onto the ship. The problem here is that the shipbuilder had planned it to be bigger guns at the lowest deck and smaller guns on the higher deck and even smaller ones on weatherdeck. But now all the guns turned out to be really big ones. Because of the lack of time and hurry to get to the king, they skipped a lot of the routines that were usually made. The king wasn't in Sweden and did not specifically order them to skip routines, have bigger guns, or an extra gundeck. What he did though, was to send a man back to Stockholm to see what was taking them such a long time and his task was to make them hurry a bit, but not to be sloppy.

@@MsAllPositive thank you for being factual and gassing the pop historians.

@@correctionguy7632 im sorry if I over explained. Im just a guide at the museum that really miss my job x) It has been closed for a long time now!

This Flying Dutchman in Pirates of the Caribbean was based off this ship.. they even kept aspects of the Vasa’s numerous art pieces including the huge mural at the back of the ship

Looks were very important. Warships, or rather a fleet of warships are a deterence and a display of power more than anything. It is a way to ensure that your enemy will stay away from your shores. It is sort of like the Atomic bomb in the 20'th century. What good is it if your enemy doesn't know you have it? Ships that sink close to home are more easily found and more easily raised. That is why they might end up in museums.

Thanks for watching!

Wellcome to Sweden