In 1625 , King Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden commissioned shipwright to create the most beautiful , deadly flagship that ever live , as a symbol of Sweden ’s naval strength . Three years later , gang accumulate to find out theVasa , named after Sweden ’s royal house , set sail for the first time . But less than a mile into its first voyage , the peaked and in haste constructed war vessel sunk to the bottom of the Baltic Sea , where it remained until 1961 when it was salvage and afterwards transported to the Vasa Museum .
Now , theGuardianreportsSwedish marine archaeologist from Vrak — Museum of Wrecks have located two shipwrecks in the Swedish archipelago outside of Vaxholm that could be linked to theVasa . This is because the shipbuilder responsible for theVasabuilt three other ships , theÄpplet , theKronan , and theScepter(though , unlike their ill - fated sib , they actually made it into battle ) .
“ It was like swim around theVasaship , ” maritime archaeologist Jim Hansson said in a museumpress firing . They conceive the first wreck they discovered may be theÄpplet , and the second wreck could be either theKronanor theScepter .
“ We think that some of them were sink in the area , ” Patrik Hoglund , another Vrak archaeologist , toldtheGuardian . But these ship did n’t capsize because of shoddy applied science or even an enemy plan of attack . Instead , experts believe the Swedish navy blue intentionally sunk them after they were decommissioned , so their wrecks would function as surprise spike strips to damage come near enemy ships .
The diver institute back wood samples from the wreck to charge to a research laboratory for testing . Once they love when and where the timber number from , they can cross - cite the data point with Swedish archives to determine out if it matches information from theVasa .
Even if the warship do change state out to be theVasa ’s long - lost sibling , it ’s unlikely that they ’ll be salvaged and displayed alongside it , since the Baltic Sea ’s brackish waters actually preserve them much better than a museum could .
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[ h / tThe Guardian ]
