The Vasa

>>33876714
gun ports too low ?

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>>33876728
That in combination with having too many guns and not enough ballast making her very top-heavy, so that light breeze made her lean over a lot. It's been suggested that having had the lower gun ports closed as she sailed out of harbour could have saved her but, well, it's a warship. You might want to have the full battery available even if the seas aren't dead calm.

>>33876714
Is this the Swedish Navy's biggest ship?

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Replica of one of the 24 pounder guns that made up the main battery. This cannon, along with a piece of hull side, were created to test the effect of these weapons on ships of the time. Part of the cannon making and the test shot can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGd5HLl3GwE

Also, it really is extremely well preserved, whats the condition of the wood?

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The cut-apart target.

>>33876824
I don't think the navy thinks of her as one of theirs any more. Just over twice the displacement of a Visby corvette though.

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>>33876831
The condition is, well, about what you see in the pictures. I don't really know what that counts as. While the ship is closed to the public museum staff and researchers do walk around inside, and set up workstations inside, without going through the decks.

Though the curators are fighting a constant battle to keep it stable. Including undoing damage from earlier attempts at conservations. Seems recycling water for that ended up spreading iron oxides and salts from the nails throughout the wood, accelerating decay, so now they're working on leeching that out again.

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A small boat which was simply towed along behind the Vasa.

>>33876872
So the wood is waterlogged and is needing treatment to stop it from falling to bits?


>>33876853
Did sweden ever have any big metal ships?

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How some of the decorative paintwork would have looked before a third of a millennium in the mud.

>>33876886
The wood was certainly soaked through and through during the ~350 years on and in the bottom of the sea, and apparently needed a lot of work done when she was just recovered to ensure that she wouldn't fall apart in a hurry back up in the air. Nowadays it's supposedly somewhat stable, apart from that iron poisoning eating away at the wood.

As for metal ships of the Swedish navy, the largest we ever had were the cruisers Tre Kronor and Göta Lejon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tre_Kronor-class_cruiser

Biggest at the moment is, I think, HMS Belos, a 6150ton sub rescue ship. For actual combat the subs themselves are probably the largest we have.

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Some of the pigments that were used.

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Full crew. 30 of them are to have died when she sank.

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How one of the corpses had been dressed.

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Rigging the ship took about 500 blocks, 100 deadeyes, and 12km of rope.

love the intricate details on the old wooden ships. its too bad its not something navies continue

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Assorted recovered items.

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>>33876968
Combine that with the desire for low radar visibility and you could get a "challenging" set of design criteria.

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Diorama of the salvage operation, also showing how shallow the water was were she sank.

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Great cabin.

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Main battery deck, with a pair of not terribly tall asian-looking tourists for scale.

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Some of the types of tools used to build her.

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And a model of her in pristine condition.

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And that's about it.