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Vasa Museum Director Klas Helmerson ( left ) explaining aspects of the sinking of Vasa ( ship ) | Vasa to U. S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen ( center ) and Minister for Defense Björn von Sydow ( right ) in 2000.
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It was partly because of the fear of war with France that the Royal Navy converted several old 74-gun ships of the line into 60-gun steam-powered blockships, Today the Vasa Museum is the most visited museum in Sweden.
Sweden's tourist sites include the Vasa Museum, the Millesgarden, and the World Heritage Site Drottningholm Palace Theatre ; other tourist attractions include Sweden's art, literature, modernism and music ( e. g., ABBA ).
The Vasa Museum opened in 1990 and, according to the official web site, is the most visited museum in Scandinavia.
Image: Vasa Museum interior1. jpg | The main hall of the museum with a model of Vasa to the left and the ship itself to the right.
The Lightship Finngrundet, now a museum ship, moored in Stockholm, Sweden adjacent to the Vasa Museum.
Vasa and Director
Prince Raad married at Södertälje, Sweden, June 30, 1963 ( civil ), and at the Royal Palace, Amman, on August 5, 1963, Swedish-born Margaretha Inga Elisabeth Lind, henceforward known as Majda Raad, President of Al-Hussein Society and Director of Bandak Fdn., born in Arboga on September 5, 1942, daughter of Sven Gustav Lind and wife Carin Inga Birgitta Gunlaug Grönwall, daughter of Assar Grönwall and wife, and an illegitimate descendant of the House of Vasa.
Vasa and left
The coat of arms of the House of Bernadotte combines the coat of arms of the House of Vasa ( heraldic right ) and the coat of arms of Bernadotte as the Prince of Pontecorvo ( heraldic left ).
The Polish king John II Casimir Vasa left Warsaw the same month to confront the Swedish army in the west, but after some skirmishes with the Swedish vanguard retreated southwards to Kraków.
Sigismund's Chapel ( right, with a gold dome ) and House of Vasa | Vasa Dynasty chapel ( to the left )
In 1879, Turnblad left Vasa for Minneapolis where he lived the quintessential rags-to-riches American success story.
Vasa and sinking
A diving bell was used to salvage more than 50 cannons from the Swedish warship Vasa in the period immediately following its sinking in 1628.
Vasa and ship
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.
* 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 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 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
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Brädspel (" board game ") game recovered from the Swedish 17th century warship Regalskeppet Vasa | Vasa.
The official portraits of King Władysław IV Vasa | Władysław IV dressed according to Kingdom of France | French, Habsburg Spain | Spanish and Polish fashion reflects the complex politics of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Thirty Years ' War
Coat of arms of the Polish branch of the House of Vasa as elected kings of Poland ( Lithuania and Ruthenia ) and Legitimacy ( political ) | rightful hereditary kings of Sweden ( Finland and Estonia ).
Vasa, with its high stern castle and double battery decks, was a transitional design between the preferences for boarding ( attack ) | boarding tactics and the line of battle.
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