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I visited Vasa museum in May this year. It is a beautiful ship and one of its kind, which has been painstakingly restored to full glory indoors ー including the

I visited Vasa museum in May this year. It is a beautiful ship and one of its kind, which has been painstakingly restored to full glory indoors ー including the ornate decorations & few of the 46 cannons. They even explained details of years-long restoration process of replacing the wood's moisture entirely with some polymeric binder (can't remember the compound). Every stage with photographs - starting with how they found it, salvaged it & bringing it to current state. They have even managed to salvage & reconstruct the faces of few of these seamen. It was incredible learning experience about medieval seafaring. Highly recommend, and it is bang next to the Gamle Stan (the old city seen in almost all stock photos of Stockholm).

belorn 3y ago
There are actually three sister ships to the Vasa. One of those called the Apple and was discovered a few ago outside Stockholm. They are very similar to Vasa but are built slightly smaller in height and about a foot greater in width. The Apple did have the same large sized cannons in the first deck, which was one of the major fault in the design of Vasa. The other two sister ships had smaller cannons on the first deck in order to avoid this problem.
trilbyglens 3y ago
The 1600s are not really considered medieval. The middle ages are mostly considered to have ended with the reformation.