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[00:01.49]Lesson 27
[00:03.67]The 'Vasa'
[00:11.34]What happened to the 'Vasa' almost immediately after she was launched?
[00:18.62]From the seventeenth-century empire of Sweden,
[00:21.74]the story of a galleon that sank at the start of her maiden voyage in 1628
[00:27.76]must be one of the strangest tales of the sea.
[00:31.24]For nearly three and a half centuries she lay at the bottom of Stockholm harbour
[00:36.53]until her discovery in 1956.
[00:40.12]This was the Vasa, royal flagship of the great imperial fleet.
[00:46.86]King Gustavus Adolphus 'The Northern Hurricane',
[00:50.94]then at the height of his military success in the 'Thirty Years' War,
[00:55.49]had dictated her measurements and armament.
[00:59.31]Triple gun-decks mounted sixty-four bronze cannon.
[01:03.49]She was intended to play a leading role in the growing might of Sweden.
[01:09.08]As she was prepared for her maiden voyage on August 10, 1628,
[01:14.49]Stockholm was in a ferment.
[01:17.49]From the Skeppsbron and surrounding islands
[01:20.40]the people watched this thing of beauty
[01:22.84]begin to spread her sails and catch the wind.
[01:26.99]They had laboured for three years to produce this floating work of art;
[01:31.89]she was more richly carved and ornamented than any previous ship.