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The Crew of the Vasa
According to the swedish navy's planning for 1628, Vasa's crew should have comprised 133 sailors and 300 soldiers, although the soldiers were only taken on board when the ship departed for battle service; they were not on board when the ship sank.
More than four-fifths of the sailors in the Swedish navy at this time were conscripts. Officials visited selected parishes in the coastal districts, where they conscripted one in ten men aged between 18 and 48 for naval service. If they already had experience in seafaring, they could be drafted between the ages of 15 and 65.
The navy was looking for sailors, but they got a motley mix of drifters, undesirables and sturdy farm boys, with a proportion of unemployed workers and some tradesmen. These men had to learn life in the navy, how to haul in a line or tie a knot, how to steer and how to cope on watch, all at the hands of the few professionals who formed the backbone of a ship's crew.
The sailing crew included 90 ordinary sailors led by a few able sailors and eight warrant officers, under the overall command of the captain and two lieutenants, who held commissions from the king. The senior warrant officer, the master, was the leading professional on board, an experienced sailor who converted the wishes of the officers into specific.
The Vasa
A master gunner and 20 gunners led crews made up from the soldiers, while a provost maintained discipline and directed damage control in battle. A purser kept account of the provisions while a cook prepared meals, and a barber cut hair and looked after the health of the crew.
Outside of these men, the navy yard provided a group of carpenters to maintain the ship, a priest took care of the spiritual needs of the crew, a trumpeter or drummer communicated orders, and a number of ship's boys, usually over the age of 12, carried messages and charges for the guns as well as acting as servants for the officers. Because Vasa was a flagship, it would be expected to carry an admiral and his servants as well.
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here are my pics from the highlight of this weekend: the vasa ship museum!
for those who don't know, vasa is an extremely well preserved warship from the 1600ds - it lay submerged for 333 years, but it had sunk so fast it hadn't even made it to salt water, where the worms would've gotten to it. it is a fantastically ostentatious spectacle, the perfect folly of kings. the reason it sank is because they made the ballast deck too small (because the king wanted two gun decks) and the wind simply. tipped it over. it's SO funny.
bonus:
TREE LAW
#swedenquest#vasa#the masts were not intact but the masts are actually taller than the depths it sank to#imagine the mast just sticking out of the water. peak comedy#50 people died unfortunately :(
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View-Master photo of the Vasa, shortly after her recovery in 1961.
#vasa#sweden#history#ship#salvage#marine archaeology#archaeology#stockholm#scandinavia#17th century#view-master#1961#swedish#warship#naval history#maritime history#maritime archaeology
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Lands ruled by the Vasa dynasty, 1648.
by dodi_maps
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Swedish warship Vasa
built in the 1620s, sank on its first voyage in 1628, & salvaged in 1961 with a near full intact hull (last image is a model painted in what’s thought to be its original colors)
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First day back in the gym in a month since I got fired from my job. I just got hired at another place so I guess back to the grind 🤔
I did a lot of walks in my neighborhood at home so not a complete 🛑 by any means but I could have been doing a lot more.
#weight loss#healthblr#fitblr#fitness#health#healthy eating#gymspo#Vasa#gym#meal prep#gym selfie#gymmotivation
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Vasa Museum Stockholm, Sweden
You want to see a boat so big and poorly designed it sunk on it's maiden voyage? Here one is!
So the short version is that the boat was too top heavy. It caused it to roll to one side far enough water flooded into the gun ports and that just brought the ship down to the bottom of the Baltic. Here's the model of it.
The ship was on the floor of the sea sinking into the mud over the last 350 years. Due to how the water in the harbor was brackish,(meaning a mix of fresh and sea water) it preserved the ship abnormally well compared to other wooden ship wrecks.
They sent down divers to tunnel out mud from underneath the boat and fed cables through to pull the ship up and out of the water.
It is a massive boat. I hope the pictures do it justice.
Also here's some 17th century scuba technology: It's a giant bell with a tiny air pocket for the diver. This is how they recovered the cannons from the wreck. It's nightmare fuel in it's purest form.
Anyway, I wasn't in Stockholm for long but was still a really cool city. Onward to Finland!
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394 years ago, the Vasa sank on August 10th, 1628.
Her maiden voyage was seen by the entirety of Stockholm city, including the king who the ship bore the name of, sank only a few hundred meters off the docks after a gust of wind capsized the vessel.
Numerous attempts and many more plans had been made to salvage the ship, but it was not until 1961 when the ship was brought up from the ocean floor.
It now resides in the Vasa Museum in Stockholm.
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Vasa had 64 cannon on board ( 48 × 24-pdr.- 8 × 3-pdr. - 2 × 1-pdr. - 6 × mortars). Each of the 24pdr. (here are just two originals the others are replicas) rested on a four-wheeled carriage of oak with iron reinforcement and fittings. The carriage weighed over 300 kg and allowed the gun to be aimed and moved about the deck.
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8/13/23.
I saw that Krischan (Frischluft! Tonträger) had bought this the other day. I listened and was immediately hooked. But, I was traveling so I completely forgot. Today, it got the Mawkish Twaddler stamp of approval and stayed on my radar long enough to get the coveted Sunday post.
Vasas flora och fauna is a Vasa, Finland band that play sweet, gentle indie pop. The kind of sound what The Kings of Convenience might sound like if they sped up their songs and played more indie pop. Of the Finnish posts, I would say this trends closest to Matti Jasu - but really this is more in the vein of BMX Bandits (with vocals that sound nothing like Duglas).
This is released by Swedish label Startracks.
#Vasas flora och fauna#Vasa#Finland#Startracks#Sweden#The Kings of Convenience#Matti Jasu#BMX Bandits#Duglas Stewart#Bandcamp
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“Although Vasa didn’t work out well for Gustav II Adolf, it’s become a boon for archaeologists.”
I will never not stop and read about the Vasa, because the whole story is just so bonkers.
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Sweat overload HIIT class!!! great to build up my endurance and fitness! Happy to see my due diligence in attending these classes for the month of february. Now time to replenish the lost electrolytes with the best, @nuunhydration !!! @vasafitness #vasafitness #vasa #nuun #nuunlife #nuunambassador #studiored #hiit #hiitworkout #gym #gymmotivation #gymlife (at VASA Fitness) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpVSz2RLPju/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Vasa Koilaniou Village
#Vasa#Vasa Koilaniou#Vasa Koilaniou Village#Cyprus#Cypriot#Kypros#Village#Limassol#History#Culture#Travel#Photography
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Anthony Fineran (B 1981), Poly Vasa Elle, 2022
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