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VASA ship
Vasa was a Swedish
warship that sank after
sailing 1,400 yards in her maiden voyage on 10 August
1628. In 1961, she was salvaged with a largely intact hull. She is
now housed in a the Vasa Museum in the Royal
National City Park in Stockholm.
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Named for the royal house,
the Vasa was
built to represent the power and glory of the great King
of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus as part of the military
expansion he initiated in a war with Poland-Lithuania. Measured 220
feet in length, had masts that were 150 feet high, and
carried more than 150,000 square feet of sail, the ship Vasa
was constructed to be the most powerful and beautiful
warship ever to sail the seven seas.
After three years of
construction by over a thousand skilled craftsmen, Wasa
was launched on October 10th 1628. However, she was
dangerously unstable, with too much weight in the upper
structure of the hull. Despite this lack of stability,
she was ordered to sea and sank only a few minutes after
encountering a wind stronger than a breeze, going no more
than 1,400 yards.
The Vasa ship remained under
100 ft of water for more than three centuries.
In 1959, the Swedish government spent $3 million to pull
her from the sea floor and transferred her to Statens
Sjohistoriska Museum. Vasa’s
more than a thousand sculptures and fragments constitute
the largest collection of mannerist-style
seventeenth-century wooden sculpture in the world. She
is the most popular tourist attraction in Sweden
nowadays.
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This Vasa model
features:
- Realistic soft sails.
No dark rims, not bright white, no uniform shape that
looks like
plastic.
- Authentic
extensive rigging system comprised of
many different sizes of rope and features numerous
blocks and deadeyes.
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Blackened metal cannons and wooden carriage. Under the main deck, all guns are "real" guns which
have proper barrels and wooden carriages which sit
on a real deck.
- Scratch-built,
plank-on-frame
construction.
41" long x 33"tall x 12" wide.
Built per commission only. Contact us for price.
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"The Wasa model has arrived in perfect condition. It is a
very beautiful model and I am really very happy with it. You should
congratulate your craftsmen for their wonderful work. If you are
launching new models please let me know.
Best regards,
Philippe Vanderstegen
BELGIUM
July 18, 2008"
"I checked around and saw a Vasa
model ship billed as museum quality but
its
middle mast was not straight. Its rigging was
oversimplified. Guns didn't have restraining
rope. Photos were so fuzzy but I could see some
more serious deficiencies... " |
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