King Gustav Adolf II, Captain Hans Jonsson, Musketeer, Gunner, Gunners Mate, Seaman and Vasa Gun

She was a “royal ship” the seventeenth-century designation for the largest type of naval vessel.

Vasa was designed to be the foremost of Sweden`s war-ships, with a hull constructed from one thousand oaks’, 64 large guns, mast more than fifty meters high and many hundred gilded and painted sculptures.