The bow of Vasa ( ship ) | Vasa, a Swedish warship that foundered and sank on its maiden voyage in 1628.

In a widely-publicided prank by the students of the Helsinki University of Technology, a miniature copy of the statue was discovered from the 300-year-old wreck of the Swedish war ship Vasa when it was lifted from the bottom of the sea in 1961.

* Vasa Museum, dedicated to the restored Vasa, a ship that sunk in 1628

** Vasa ( ship ), a Swedish warship that sank in 1628, since restored

** Vasa Museum, Stockholm, where the restored ship is currently displayed

* April 24 – The Swedish ship Regalskeppet Vasa is removed from the water after being sunk 333 years earlier.

* August 10 – The Swedish 64 gun sailing ship Vasa sinks on her maiden voyage in the Stockholm harbor.

Although Mary Rose consists of only half of a ship, it is a remarkable example of ship construction from Tudor England, and like Vasa, it contained a wealth of artifacts that tell of the daily lives of those on board.

This was one the first projects that led to the development of the field of Nautical Archaeology, along with the excavation of the Viking Skuldelev ships at Roskilde in 1962, and the discovery and raising of the Swedish warship the Vasa ( ship ) in 1961.

* Vasa ( ship ), the only original galleon to be preserved.

Vasa inspired the design of the Flying Dutchman, the ship of Pirates of the Caribbean villain Davy Jones.

( The museum ship Vasa in Stockholm was e. g. a 17th-century ship of the Royal Swedish Navy ( Kungliga flottan )).

The early 17th century galleon Vasa ( ship ) | Vasa.

The Vasa ( ship ) | Vasa is one of the oldest and most well-preserved ships salvaged in the world, owed to the cool temperatures and low salinity of the Baltic Sea

An excessively low or negative GM increases the risk of a ship capsizing in rough weather, for example HMS Captain or the Vasa.

Simple three-disc locking mechanism from a wooden box recovered from the Swedish ship Regalskeppet Vasa | Vasa, sunk in 1628

Stern compartment containing the tiller of Swedish 17th century warship Vasa ( ship ) | Vasa.

While Swedish spelling was an entirely personal business in the Catholic Middle Ages, its gradual standardization ( known as Modern Swedish ) started in 1526 with the translation of the New testament of the Bible ( Gustav Vasa Bible ), as part of the Lutheran reformation.

* Sigismund III Vasa ( 1566 – 1632 ), King of Sweden ( as Sigismund ) and Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania

* Vasa ( Rajasthan ), a village in Sirohi District, Rajashthan, India

* Vasa recta ( intestines ), capillaries surrounding the intestines

* Gustav Vasa ( 1496 – 1560 ), King of Sweden

* Robert F. Vasa ( born 1951 ), Bishop of Baker

* Vasa Mihich ( born 1933 ), American artist

* Vasa Mijić ( born 1973 ), Serbian volleyball player

* Gustavus Vasa Fox ( 1821 – 1883 ), U. S. Naval officer during the American Civil War

* Kettil Karlsson ( Vasa ) ( 1433 – 1465 ), was a Swedish clergyman and regent of Sweden from 1464 to 1465

* Władysław Vasa of Poland ( 1595 – 1648 ), Polish Prince, self-proclaimed Grand Duke of Moscow, and future King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

The Catholic bishops had supported the Danish King Christian II, but he was overthrown by Gustavus Vasa ( 1490 – 1560 ), and Sweden ( with Finland ) was now independent again.

Gustav I of Sweden, born Gustav Eriksson of the Vasa noble family and later known as Gustav Vasa ( 12 May 1496 – 29 September 1560 ), was King of Sweden from 1523 until his death, previously self-recognised Protector of the Realm ( Rikshövitsman ) from 1521, during the ongoing Swedish War of Liberation against King Christian II of Norway, Denmark and Sweden.

While the Commonwealth Sejm managed to thwart many of the plans of Sigismund ( and later of his son, Wladislaw ), the Vasa dynasty nonetheless succeeded in partially drawing the Commonwealth into the Thirty Years ' War.

# John Casimir (; 22 May 1609 1672 ), reigned 1648 – 1668 as John II Casimir Vasa of Poland

In 1536, his father, Gustav Vasa, married Margaret Leijonhufvud ( 1516 – 55 ), a Swedish noblewoman.

During the period of the union of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden under king Sigismund III Vasa ( Polish – Swedish union ), diets were held there ; and in 1594 and 1596 it was the meeting-place of two remarkable councils of the Roman-Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church bishops of the region ; the 1596 council establishing the Uniate Church ( known also as the Belarusian Greek Catholic Church in Belarus and Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine ).

However, Sweden being volatile and split by factions ( benefits of union being against nationalistic benefits ), his reign there ended in 1464 when bishop Kettil Karlsson Vasa was installed as the next regent.

* Erik Johansson Vasa ( 1470 – 1520 ), lord of Rydboholm Castle in the Roslagen

Other opponents were the family group of Oxenstierna and Vasa ( House ), which had been on the opposing side in the election of king and lost.

He was the son of the statesman Field Marshal Axel von Fersen the Elder and the countess Hedvig Catharina De la Gardie ( through her relatives to the Royal House of Vasa ), nephew of Eva Ekeblad and grandson of General Hans Reinhold Fersen.

In the last years of the 16th century and the first part of the 17th century, a number of Italian musicians were guests at the royal courts of Sigismund III Vasa and Władysław IV.

In the first half of the 17th century, kings of the House of Vasa turned the Jasna Góra Monastery into a modern Dutch-style fortress, which was one of the pockets of Polish resistance against the Swedish armies during Swedish invasion of Poland in 1655 ( for more information, see Siege of Jasna Góra ).

Brädspel (" board game ") game recovered from the Swedish 17th century warship Regalskeppet Vasa | Vasa.

Interest in brädspel experienced a resurgence following the recovery of a 17th century board from the wreck of the Vasa.

In the 17th century, King Władysław IV Vasa commissioned an ornate silver coffin to hold the Saint's relics.

Located on the island of Djurgården, the museum displays the only almost fully intact 17th century ship that has ever been salvaged, the 64-gun warship Vasa that sank on her maiden voyage in 1628.

Weather deck of the Swedish 17th century warship Vasa ( ship ) | Vasa looking aft toward the sterncastle.

The still-intact aft bilge pump of the Swedish 17th century warship Vasa ( ship ) | Vasa as seen from the upper gun deck.

Inside of the great cabin of the 17th century warship Vasa ( ship ) | Vasa.

The head on the beakhead of the 17th century warship Vasa ( ship ) | Vasa.