Visit the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden
Female1: Stockholm is known as the Venice of Northern Europe.
Male: There are 14 islands that make up the city. We’ve just left the old town and we’re our way to a very unique spot.
In this harbor back in 1628, the entire city of Stockholm turned out for the launching of the Vasa, the world’s largest, most extravagant warship and an expression of Sweden’s military might. The original Vasa’s now housed in this six-story museum in Stockholm.
Female2: She sailed for her first journey and made them bilge that sailed for about 15 minutes and then she sank. Absolute disaster, many people died of course, it was catastrophe, embarrassing thing for the King.
Male: Ironically, it was the King’s ego that blocks the Vasa down.
Female2: They added one extra gun deck because the King ordered her to have more guns than what planned from the beginning. 64 guns, so she was a war machine, so when the ship is full and they had to this, it had problems of stability and that they didn’t cope with. You can seal them off that she’s quite top heavy and that’s the problem she was due to sink.
Male: These icy waters actually help to preserve her for three centuries until she was exuded in 1961.
Female2: What you see of the Vasa today’s 95% are withdrawn. In the volt tank, we don’t have very salty water. So we don’t have the ship worn that you have in the rest of the oceans in the world. So the ship saw quite opposite, here also the Vasa never went to battle, so all have beautiful sculptures and everything, most of them have been bought up.
Male: Once the source of international embarrassment the Vasa is now the best preserved 17th century ship in the world.
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