Vasa (Swedish flagship that sunk on its maiden voyage in 1628 after sailing 1300 m)
Vasa (Swedish flagship that sunk on its maiden voyage in 1628 after sailing 1300 m)
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ah, my first hyperfixation. my grandmother used to tell a story of how i, age four, repeatedly corrected the tour guide on small details i'd picked up from reading abut the ship for weeks before i finally got to go to the museum.
i really was an annoying little shit.
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Wasn't this ship withering away from exposure to the air or something? Did they find a fix for that?
Edit: the wood is impegnated with sulfur, cause of poluted water. One of the reason it was preserved so well on the bottom of the sea. The sulfur reacts with the air, making sulfuric acid. They have not found a fix for that. So it continues to break down.
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The Mary Rose in Portsmouth, UK is kept in a giant container and sprayed with sea water to maintain the same conditions as when it was under the Solent. They raised it after a comparable amount of time underwater.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rose
Apparently they dried it out in a controlled way between 2013-2016, but it was sprayed with water and then special chemicals for a while.
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Oh nice I didn't realised they'd gotten rid of the glass container now, I might have to go see it again
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I bet I could build something that beats 1300m /s
That's super cool; I'd love to see it
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There's a wealth of information about 17th century ships in that article.
Also, this ship is a striking example of the wasteful and inefficient nature of authoritarian regimes.
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It is a must-see museum in Stockholm. Not only the ship is interesting by itself, but the exhibition has a lot about how they raised and restored it.
It's an old trope, but it is of those things that pictures truly cannot capture, too. The ship is unfathomably large.
I didn't have a camera lens wide enough to reasonably get the entire thing in frame, from any location in the building.
I went recently! 100% a must see museum.
I was shocked when I walked in and the museum just goes so far down into the ground
the museum is basically built on top of the dry dock where it was restored!
I should visit again sometime soon, it's been years. Absolute top tier museum.