Monday, April 24, 1961. Media from all over the world was on site at Kastellholmen in Stockholm. The Swedish National Television was broadcasting live. After 333 years in the dark down in the water the warship Vasa was to see the light. At 09.03 in the morning the first parts of ship was visible. The ship was built on the orders of the King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus as part of the military expansion he initiated in a war with Poland-Lithuania (1621-1629). She was constructed at the navy yard in Stockholm under a contract with private entrepreneurs in 1626-1627 and armed primarily with bronze cannons cast in Stockholm specifically for the ship. Richly decorated as a symbol of the king's ambitions for Sweden and himself, upon completion she was one of the most powerfully armed vessels in the world. However, Vasa was dangerously unstable, with too much weight in the upper structure of the hull. Despite this lack of stability, she was ordered to sea and foundered only a few minutes
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