If this is your first time making a purchase or if you've had difficulty making purchases in the past, some options may not be available. Only selected products are eligible to send as a gift.In addition, a confirmation email will be sent to your email address. Once your payment is successful, you will receive a confirmation message.Choose a Username from your Friends list or write it down.In addition, Vasa’s name came from the house of Vasa, rather than being named specifically after one of Sweden’s kings. It was Äpplet that was sunk in a strait off the island of Vaxholm, not Vasa, which sank outside Beckholmen. The subheading said Vasa sank in 1629 when it sank a year earlier. An earlier version referred to the ship as Applet, when it is Äpplet, meaning “the Apple” rather than “Apple”. This article was amended on 25 October 2022. The ships are believed to have been sunk on purpose after they were decommissioned, serving as underwater spike strips to snag enemy vessels. Three other ships were ordered from the same shipwright: Äpplet, Kronan (the Crown) and Scepter, and unlike their predecessor they served in the Swedish navy and participated in naval battles. It was salvaged in 1961 and is on display at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, one of Sweden’s most popular tourist spots.
Named after the house of Vasa, the royal dynasty at the time, Vasa was meant to serve as a symbol of Sweden’s military might but capsized after sailing just over 1,000 metres. “With Äpplet, we can add another key piece of the puzzle in the development of Swedish shipbuilding,” Hansson said, adding that this enabled researchers to study the differences between Äpplet and Vasa.
Archeologists at the time believed that one of them could have been Äpplet, but further investigations showed that those vessels were in fact two medium-sized warships from 1648 named Apollo and Maria. In 2019, the museum reported the discovery of two other warships in the same area.
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