The Vasa

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Vasa (previously Wasa) (Swedish pronunciation: [²vɑːsa] ^ⓘ) is a Swedish warship built between 1626 and 1628. The ship sank after sailing roughly 1,300 m (1,400 yd) into her maiden voyage on 10 August 1628. She fell into obscurity after most of her valuable bronze cannons were salvaged in the 17th century, until she was located again in the late 1950s in a busy shipping area in Stockholm harbor. The ship was salvaged with a largely intact hull in 1961. She was housed in a temporary museum called Wasavarvet ("The Vasa Shipyard") until 1988 and then moved permanently to the Vasa Museum in the Royal National City Park in Stockholm. Between her recovery in 1961 and the beginning of 2025, Vasa has been seen by over 45 million visitors.^[2]

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to citation needed, the podcast where we choose the subject, read a single article about it on Wikipedia and pretend we're experts because this is the internet, and that's how it works now.
0:29.9	I'm Noah, and I'd like to remind everybody that I did an essay about my vacation first.
0:34.9	It doesn't really matter who wrote what, when.
0:37.2	My episode came out first, so Cecil is
0:40.6	copying off of me. Also, Heath, Eli, and Tom are here. Hey, Cecil, when did you finish your first
0:48.0	essay and post it, though? Like, when? I'm fucking posted a fucking month ago I'm called
0:56.0	A Puckabakeet Glenn
0:56.9	In fairness I submitted an essay about how I used my time off of work
1:01.6	And then you guys all cried and said
1:03.4	I think this was a quote
1:04.5	We can't make this funny
1:06.2	No one can make this funny
1:07.4	Why did you make me read that?
1:09.2	Yeah, no that's fair
1:10.6	That's fair We're going to do the fatty R buckle. Yeah, we're like, let's do Fatty Arbuckle instead. No, okay, so right in the midst of me, uh, then Cecil telling you how awesome our vacations were, it's kind of awkward for me to hit you up for money at this point in the show, as we so often do. So I'm going to wait until the end of the show. And with that other way, tell us, Eli, what person plays, think concept phenomenon or event what we'll be talking about today? We'll be talking about the Vasa. All right. Cisely, you read the article and actually went to the thing and touched it. Are you ready to show us your slides? If you guys could dim the lights, here's my plane seat seat belt buckle. I just want you to... I thought it was upside down, but it wasn't. Oh, okay. So next slide. So tell us, Cecil. Maybe the slides upside down. Maybe it was upside down. Yeah. So tell us, Cecil, how are you going to make your
2:02.6	vacation tax deductible? I didn't think of that. I'm totally going to do that now. 100%. Okay,
2:08.7	so I recently visited Sweden for the first time. And I went to the most amazing museum while I was there.
2:16.1	The subject of museum is essentially one gigantic
2:18.8	recovered object. It's a 64-canon double gun-deck warship that sank in 1628. In 1961, the ship
2:28.4	was raised, largely intact from the water and placed in a shipyard where it's maintained and then they eventually
2:35.1	built this climate-controlled museum to house and preserve it. My inner history nerd was
2:40.7	absolutely blown away by the exhibit and then when I took a guided tour of the boat, I learned
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