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[00:00.85]Lesson 27
[00:03.95]The 'Vasa'
[00:12.34]What happened to the 'Vasa' almost immediately after she was launched?
[00:20.57]From the seventeenth-century empire of Sweden,
[00:24.32]the story of a galleon that sank at the start of her maiden voyage in 1628 must be one of the strangest tales of the sea.
[00:34.84]For nearly three and a half centuries she lay at the bottom of Stockholm harbour until her discovery in 1956.
[00:44.34]This was the Vasa, royal flagship of the great imperial fleet.
[00:51.53]King Gustavus Adolphus 'The Northern Hurricane',
[00:56.23]then at the height of his military success in the 'Thirty Years' War,
[01:01.33]had dictated her measurements and armament.
[01:05.42]Triple gun-decks mounted sixty-four bronze cannon.
[01:10.73]She was intended to play a leading role in the growing might of Sweden.
[01:16.84]As she was prepared for her maiden voyage on August 10, 1628, Stockholm was in a ferment.
[01:27.58]From the Skeppsbron and surrounding islands
[01:30.64]the people watched this thing of beauty begin to spread her sails and catch the wind.
[01:37.80]They had laboured for three years to produce this floating work of art;
[01:44.16]she was more richly carved and ornamented than any previous ship.