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WASA (VASA) model
Wasa is a Swedish warship
built between 1626 and 1628. The ship sank after sailing
roughly 1,400 yd into her maiden voyage on 10 August
1628. The ship was salvaged with a largely intact hull
in 1961. She is housed in a the Vasa Museum in the Royal
National City Park in Stockholm.
About the construction of the
Wasa (Vasa)
model:
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Plank-on-frame
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Blackened metal cannons and wooden carriage. Under the main deck, all guns are "real" guns which
have metal barrels and wooden carriages which sit on 2
real decks. These
guns are not simple barrels inserted into a solid hull
like in cheap models.
- Full length masts and bowsprit per construction plans (We never cut
them short for the convenience of packing and low cost
shipping.)
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History of
the WASA (VASA) ship:
Named for the royal house, Wasa was
built to represent the power and glory of the great King
Gustave II of Sweden when the country was the dominant
military force in the Baltic. Wasa was constructed to be the most powerful and beautiful
warships ever to sail the seven seas. She measured 220
feet in length, had masts that were 150 feet high, and
carried more than 150,000 square feet of sails.
After three years of
construction by over a thousand skilled craftsmen, Wasa
was launched on October 10th 1628.
Overloaded with cannons and gold sculptures, a sudden
gust laid Wasa on her beam-ends. Water rushed in through
the open gun ports and, within a matter of minutes, she
went down in over 100 feet of water. Wasa went no more
than 15 yards on her maiden voyage!
The Wasa ship remained under 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 on the Stockholm waterfront. Wasa’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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Dimensions of the Wasa model:
41" long x 33"tall x 12" wide. Email
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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