Category
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Vasa
17th century Swedish warship
Batavia
ship wrecked in 1629 on Houtman Abrolhos with at least 110 men, women and children being murdered during subsequent mutiny
Nuestra Señora de Atocha
sailing ship
Kalmar Nyckel
Swedish ship built by the Dutch
Merchant Royal
17th-century English merchant ship
HMS Victory
1620 second-rate ship of the line
HMS Swiftsure
1621 third-rate ship of the line
Äpplet
Äpplet ("the globus cruciger"; literally "the apple") was a Swedish warship built in the late 1620s as the sister ship of Vasa, intended as one of the largest and most prestigious ships in the Swedish navy under King Gustavus Adolphus. Äpplet was built in the same shipyard in Stockholm as Vasa but finished somewhat later and with different proportions. The reason for the different proportions was the replacement of the original shipwright Henrik Hybertsson who died in 1627 with Hein Jakobsson who also attempted to widen Vasa while it was being built.
Äpplet was launched in 1629 less than year