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The Japanese sightseeing ship on Lake Ashi inspired by Vasa. The Vasa Museum has co-sponsored two versions of a documentary about the history and recovery of the ship, both by documentary filmmaker Anders Wahlgren. The second version was shown in the museum and released on VHS and DVD with narration in 16 languages.
Around the ship are numerous exhibits and models portraying the construction, sinking, location, and recovery of the ship. There are also exhibits that expand on the history of Sweden in the 17th century, providing background information for why the ship was built. A movie theatre shows a film in alternating languages on the recovery of the Vasa.
The head on the beakhead of the 17th-century warship Vasa. The toilets are the two square box-like structures on either side of the bowsprit. On the starboard side, there are still minor remnants of the original seat. In sailing vessels, the head is the ship's toilet.
They would build four ships, two larger and two smaller, maintain existing ships, and manage the navy yard from January 1626 through the end of 1629. Vasa, laid down in February–March 1626 and launched in 1627, was the first of the large ships to be built under this contract. The other large ship, Äpplet, was laid down in 1627 and entered ...
SS Sankt Erik is an icebreaker and museum ship attached to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.. She was launched in 1915 as Isbrytaren II ("Ice breaker II") and was a conventionally-built Baltic icebreaker with a strengthened bow shaped to be lifted up onto the ice to crush it and a forward-facing screw to push water and crushed ice along the side of the hull.
This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.
Vasa, 17th-century Swedish warship, formerly spelled Wasa; SS Wasa (1907) a Swedish cargo ship sold to Norway in 1925 and renamed SS Henry; Wasa 30, a Swedish sailboat; Wasa Line, a former Finnish shipping company
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; ... This category is for ships launched in the decade 1620s. 1570s; 1580s; ... Vasa (ship) Vianen ...