Wasa A Swedish 64-gun warship built in Stockholm by the Dutch shipwrights Hen[d]rick Hybertszoon [Hendrijch Hubrijs] and Henrik Jakobson and launched in 1627. The dimensions of the ship were 47,70×11,20×4,75 meters. The armament of 64 guns of which 48 were of 24 pounds made her the most powerful ship of her time. She capsized on her maiden voyage on the 10th of August 1628 in the harbour of Stockholm. The number of people drowned at the catastrophe is not known, one contemporary report tells that "some 30 sailors, wifes and children who wished to follow to Waxholm were drowned", in another report Erik Krabbe mentions that "it is being said that a half hundred people, among them some women and children who wanted to follow to the skerries". Most of the 64 guns were salvaged already in 1663-1664 by Hans Albrecht von Treileben and Anders Peckel using a primitive diving bell. Three 24-pound guns were found still in or about the wreck. The well preserved wreck was discovered in August 1956 after extensive archival research by the amateur naval historian Anders Franzén. The salvage work started in 1959 with the first 3 meter lift on August 20. She was finally raised on the 24th of April 1961 and floated into the Gustav V drydock on May 4 on her own keel. During the excavation work the sail-locker was found and the remains of the sails that were not set at the catastrophe. After excavation the ship was brought into a temporary custom built museum. The ship has since been moved to her permanent resting place, a museum built over a 19th century drydock. Although the reconstruction of the ship is not finished yet, all the recovered external sculptures have been fitted. The ship will not be completely re-rigged, but only up to the tops. The lower masts were fitted in 1994. | 
