For this episode of the HistoryPod, we’re discussing the seventeenth century Swedish warship, the Vasa, and its disastrous demise. Measuring 226 ft. long and 172 ft. tall with ten sails, the Vasa was a marvel in its day, but it is now remembered less for its grandeur and more for the dozens of lives and generous sums of Swedish government funds that were lost as a result of its development.
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