Video: The warship "Vasa" is the world's only surviving sailing ship of the early 17th century
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Warship "Vasa" was supposed to be the epitome of Swedish military power, but instead sank on his maiden voyage out of Stockholm harbor on August 10, 1628. The now restored ship is exhibited in a specially built museum; it is the world's only surviving sailing ship from the early 17th century.
"Vasa" was to become the flagship of the Swedish Royal Navy, 64 cannons were installed on the 69-meter vessel. 400 shipbuilders worked on the project, more than a thousand strong oaks were cut down for the construction. After the wreck, which happened 1300 m from the bay, in subsequent years the bronze cannons were removed from the ship, and the wreck itself lay in shallow water until 1961.
Now the ship "Vasa" is in the museum of the same name in Stockholm, about a million tourists come to see this historical landmark every year. The ship was wrecked due to the fact that the underwater part was too small, this was indicated by the vice admiral several months before the launch of the ship, but King Gustav II Adolf wanted to see Vasa so much that he neglected the comments and did not postpone first voyage. As a result, 50 to 400 people died in the shipwreck.
Vasa is the most important monument that testifies to the power of the Swedish armada in the 17th century. Despite the fact that they try to protect the ship from destruction, they are inevitable. So, for 333 years, it lay in the toxic waters of the bay, when it rises to the surface, the mechanism of the interaction of acid compounds with oxygen is instantly triggered, which leads to the erosion of wood. The ship was treated with a special neutralizing solution. The rusting bolts were also replaced, they were replaced with galvanized and resin coated.
By the way, earlier on the website Kulturologiya. RF we published a review famous sunken ships, which can still be visited.
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