{"id":9123,"date":"2010-08-17T23:30:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T06:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/9123"},"modified":"2010-08-17T23:30:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T06:30:34","slug":"the-vasa-museum-in-stockholm-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/9123","title":{"rendered":"The Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Vasamuseet or Vasa Museum is located on the island of Djurg\u00ed\u00a5rden in Stolkholm, Sweden. It is home to the Vasa, a 17th century warship that sank on its maiden voyage in 1628 and was recovered after much searching on 14 Apr 1861. Remarkably, the ship remained largely intact even after over three centuries underwater, owing to the brackish nature of the water in which the ship sank.<\/p>\n

The Vasa was built at the order of King Gustav II Adolf. Its construction took two years and the hull alone required over a thousand oak trees .\u00a0On 10 Aug 1628, the Vasa set sail but, because the underwater part of the hull and the ballast were insufficient to support such a massive ship, the Vasa keeled over and sank after sailing a mere 1300 meters.<\/p>\n

Of the original timber in the ship, over 95% survived. Six of the original ten sails have also survived. The ornamentation and detail on the hull has, of course, lost the paint that it originally had, although historians and artists have constructed replicas of the carvings and painted them as they\u00c2\u00a0may have been\u00c2\u00a0at the time the ship was constructed.<\/p>\n

The total length of the ship, including bowsprit, was an estimated 69 meters in length and\u00c2\u00a011.7 meters wide .\u00a0The height of the main truck above the keel was\u00c2\u00a0an estimated 52.5 meters.<\/p>\n

\"Model<\/a><\/p>\n

Model of the Vasa<\/em><\/p>\n

SOURCE: Model of the Vasa (Stockholm, Sweden), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

The Deck of the Vasa<\/em><\/p>\n

SOURCE:\u00a0The Deck\u00c2\u00a0of the Vasa (Stockholm, Sweden), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n

\"Ornamentation<\/a><\/p>\n

Ornamentation on the Stern of the Vasa<\/em><\/p>\n

SOURCE:\u00a0Ornamentation on the Stern\u00c2\u00a0of the Vasa (Stockholm, Sweden), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n

\"Painted<\/a><\/p>\n

Painted Replica of the Ornamentation on the Stern of the Vasa<\/em><\/p>\n

SOURCE:\u00a0Painted Replica of the Ornamentation on the Stern of the Vasa (Stockholm, Sweden), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n

\"Beakhead<\/a><\/p>\n

Beakhead of the Vasa<\/em><\/p>\n

SOURCE:\u00a0Beakhead\u00c2\u00a0of the Vasa (Stockholm, Sweden), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n

\"Gunport<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gunport of the Vasa<\/em><\/p>\n

SOURCE:\u00a0Gunport\u00c2\u00a0of the Vasa (Stockholm, Sweden), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2010 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Vasamuseet or Vasa Museum is located on the island of Djurg\u00ed\u00a5rden in Stolkholm, Sweden. It is home to the Vasa, a 17th century warship that sank on its maiden voyage in 1628 and was recovered after much searching on 14 Apr 1861. Remarkably, the ship remained largely intact even after over three centuries underwater, owing to the brackish nature of the water in which the ship sank. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[166,240],"class_list":["post-9123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-baltic-vacation","tag-stockholm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-2n9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}