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Pretty sure the builders knew the Vasa wasn't stable. The King of Sweden wouldn't take 'no' for an answer. Just 358 years later, the people in charge of a diffe
by cratermoon 2y ago
Pretty sure the builders knew the Vasa wasn't stable.
The King of Sweden wouldn't take 'no' for an answer.
Just 358 years later,
the people in charge of a different kind of ship,
named Challenger,
also wouldn't take 'no' for an answer.
- graeme 2y agoYeah the Wikipedia is instructive. >In the last part of the inquest held after the sinking, a group of master shipwrights and senior naval officers were asked for their opinions about why the ship sank. Their discussion and conclusions show very clearly that they knew what had happened, and their verdict was summed up very clearly by one of the captains, who said that the ship did not have enough "belly" to carry the heavy upperworks.[81] When other ships that predated stability calculations were found to lack stability, remedial action could be taken to increase the beam. Also the original builder and his successor both died before completion. (Not suspiciously, but makes responsibility in construction harder)