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Finding the ship lost for more than 300 years
In 1628, at the height of Sweden鈥檚 military expansion, the Swedish Navy built a new flagship, the Vasa. At the time it was the most heavily armed ship in the world. But two hours into its maiden voyage, it sank in Stockholm harbour. It remained there for more than three hundred years, until its discovery in 1961. A former Swedish naval officer, Bertil Daggfeldt, remembers the day that the mighty ship reappeared from beneath the waters almost totally preserved.
(Photo: Vasa Museum)
