WASA-MAGNIFICENT NEW WOOD MODEL SHIP

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MAGNIFICENT NEW WOOD HANDCRAFTED MODEL WARSHIP. THE SHIP IS FULLY ASSEMBLED AND READY FOR DISPLAY WHEN YOU RECEIVE IT. The ship is 38"long x11"wide x 33"high WASA 1628 Wasa was built to represent the power and glory of King Gustave II of Sweden when the country was the dominant military force in the Baltic. Wasa was to be the most powerful and beautiful warship ever to sail the seven seas. She measured 220 feet in length, had masts that were 150 feet high, and carried more than 150,000 square feet of sails. After three years of construction by over a thousand skilled craftsmen, she was launched on October 10th 1628. Overloaded with cannons and gold sculptures, the ship went no more than 15 yards on her maiden trip. A sudden gust laid her on her beam-ends. Water rushed in through the open gun ports and, within a matter of minutes, she went down in over 100 feet of water. She remained under water for more than three centuries until 1959 when the Swedish government spent $3 million to pull her from the sea floor and transfer her to Statens Sjohistoriska Museum on the Stockholm waterfront. Wasa's more than a thousand sculptures and fragments constitute the largest collection seventeenth-century wooden sculpture in the world. Today, she is the most popular tourist attraction in Sweden. Only the highest quality woods like rosewood, read more

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