It was the largest and fiercest warship in the world, named the Mars for the Roman god of war: But it went up in a ball of flames in a brutal naval battle in 1564, consigning 800 to 900 Swedish ...

The massive three-masted warship was nearly 200 feet long, and carried more than 100 cannon and between 800 and 900 Swedish and German sailors at the time that it sunk. The Mars wreck site was ...

On the afternoon of Aug. 10, 1628, the Vasa, built by the Swedish to be one of the most ... in 1958 and was completed in 1961 when the entire warship was lifted from the depths of Stockholm ...

The warship, which goes by the name "Äpplet," dates back to the early 17th century and is the sister ship of "Vasa," a different Swedish warship. A gunport of the warship Applet is seen at a ...

The wreck of a 17th-century Swedish warship — a sister ship of the famous Vasa, which sank only an hour into its maiden voyage in 1628 — has been discovered near Stockholm. When you purchase ...

Marine archaeologists scuba diving off Vaxholm discovered the shipwreck of a 17th century Swedish warship, the Äpplet, deliberately sunk. Screengrab from the Vrak Museum of Wrecks' video The ...

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When the human remains found on board the Swedish warship Vasa (1628) were investigated, it was determined that the skeleton designated G was a man. New research now shows that the skeleton is ...

It’s among the best preserved 17th-century ships and the discoveries keep coming. Vasa, a Swedish warship that sank minutes into its maiden voyage in 1628, was pulled from the Stockholm harbor ...

Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered the long-lost sister vessel of the iconic 17th-century warship "Vasa", which sank on its maiden voyage, the Swedish Museum of Wrecks said on Monday.