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Preserving Vasa

Preserving Vasa

Hocker, Emma

Paperback

BoatingConservation & PreservationGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 190949299X
ISBN13: 9781909492998
Publisher: Archetype Publications
Published: Jul 1 2018
Pages: 204
Language: English

The story of Vasa began almost four hundred years ago. On 10 August 1628, the Vasa, newly built flagship of the Swedish King Gustav II Adolf, set sail in Stockholm harbour. Less than an hour later, Sweden's great warship sank to the bottom of Stockholm harbour,

Various attempts were made to raise the ship. In the 1660s attention turned to salvaging the ship's consignment of bronze cannon, while the hull itself remained relatively undisturbed at the bottom of the sea until April 1961 when the great ship was raised from the waters of Stockholm harbour. Conservation and reconstruction was to prove a far cry from plain sailing...taking almost 30 years before the ship was placed on permanent display in the purpose-built Vasa Museum in central Stockholm.

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