How Europe's Greatest Warship Was Destroyed by a Breeze

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[@jonatanrullman]

As a swedish comedian once said. When foreign friends are visiting and asking if the ship was at sea for long. Laugh nervously and reply: several hundred years.

[@dnelly9967]

Ha

[@rottenpotatoes6497]

proceeds to pull out a 1600’s fucking magical carpet

[@heh9392]

lol thats actually jokes XD

[@freakymoejoe2]

"Do it anyway!" Was sort of the motto of Gustavus Adolphus

[@freakymoejoe2]

@pancakestac He was boss of a large part of europe

[@wizardblizzardgaming4460]

In Sweden, he's spelled and called Gustav Adolf

[@CrossJComic]

@@wizardblizzardgaming4460 some random Austrian dude with a funny mustache: sup

[@robertjarman3703]

And Charles the XII.

[@freakymoejoe2]

@@wizardblizzardgaming4460 He's known as Gustavus Adolphus because it was common for monarchs to take latinized names

[@deadsnooker7565]

Me, a swede reading the title: "oh cool" Sees thumbnail: "oh no."

[@cosiedziejepolska]

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[@jeremyhull3177]

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[@cosiedziejepolska]

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[@jeremyhull3177]

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[@GenericUsername1388]

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[@Wanking_wanker]

The captain: “haha we are going to die” 5 seconds later “I fucking called it”

[@Foolsworn]

"How Europe's Greatest Warship Was Destroyed by a Breeze" Sees swedish flags in the thumbnail oh no

[@michs342]

Yeah saw that thumbnail and knew exactly what he was going to talk about.

[@MarshmaloWarrior]

yep. same here.

[@Adam-yc2ec]

Same

[@arvidejhed7280]

Gråtande

[@buddie_OW]

Forsen was the captain?

[@erika002]

Swedish Empire: Builds a massive heavily-armed warship for _glorious naval battle_ Air: *_hi_*

[@sarthakpathania]

Air: I want hugs!

[@Outofcontexst]

Air: I want hugs!

[@Aurmm]

Air:i want hugs

[@Habibi379]

Air: I want hugs!

[@howardwillow]

@Huang Jianhao Air: I want hugs!

[@Oscar-wp5cq]

As a swede who’s been to see the ship 3 times in my life and forever been awestruck by it and loved those old sailships ever since, its amazingly cool to see it. It looks like a ghost ship or the black pearl from pirates of the Caribbean. Its super cool.

[@knallpistolen]

would be cooler if the ship had actually done something back in it's day

[@oakonion8860]

@@knallpistolen faxs

[@makeupstories605]

Actually I think the flying Dutchman is based on this ship

[@Oscar-wp5cq]

@@knallpistolen yeah all it did was manage to look cool before it just... tipped over lol

[@Ballin4Vengeance]

The Sinking Swede

[@philwang2835]

King: "I am the king! Physics will bend to my will!"

[@1nt9rn9t-dudewillheim2]

Yeah pretty much...

[@australium7374]

I love how even the wind gave the ship a warning to turn back, like it had a small breeze, and then another one that being that shit into the ground

[@veralenora7368]

Should have learned from King Canute, Dane, of England. Canute was widely known for his brilliance and wisdom, an unusual combination then as well as now. His courtier's compliments getting out of hand however. "You control the wind and the tides." Canute ordered his throne carried to water's edge at low tide. The tide rose. Canute ordered the tide back. Tide came on. Canute ordered it back. And so on. Throne flooded. Canute didn't say a word. When the tide finally receded the throne was carried back to his great hall. Courtier's abashed. 🤦‍♂️ Learned a lesson.

[@youssefwalli9098]

@@veralenora7368 ;-;

[@ryanpayne7707]

Physics: B--tch please.

[@sentientlemonbattery]

imagine being an unbeatable titan then dying to _the fucking wind_

[@lachlankeddie7]

The Mongols can relate

[@Retaliatixn]

F in the chat for the WASA.

[@Nugcon]

WW1 soldiers can relate to the dying to the wind part.

[@Retaliatixn]

@@Nugcon ... Damn shit got very dark real quick.

[@tatenomura7576]

Imagine being the biggest ship and dying to an iceberg lmao

[@Swuiddy0086]

Mongolia: "First time?"

[@infinityflyz22]

Mongolia: “Second time?”

[@primepogba2264]

Mongolia: Third time?

[@OliverBailey06]

Mongolia: "Fourth time?"

[@vishal17935]

Mongolia-" What's the time?"

[@justmiles8651]

Mongolia:"Fifth time?"

[@darkadrien14]

The Vasa museum in Stockholm is one of the most impressive and interesting I have visited. Truly a gem.

[@LoafAround]

I visited the museum on a trip to Sweden, it's incredibly intact and there is so many interesting things. If you're going to Sweden make shure you stop by.

[@nattygsbord]

The ship is huge. Like 4 floors tall, and then you do not even include the mast.

[@erikaronsson8964]

I bet Sweden has now regained all the money lost from building the ship beacuse of it now being in Swedens maybe most popular museum and tourist attraction. Good job Gustav totaly worth it! Update: it looks like the Vasa cost a little over 5% of Swedens GNP at the time. Mayby we did not regain the money, but ship was much better suited for being admired on land anyway. Gustav just invested in a future museum, his plan all along.

[@dajjukunrama5695]

Money is an enslaving fiat currency and we could stop acknowledging it but we playing.

[@erikaronsson8964]

@@dajjukunrama5695 Big brain

[@magnemoe1]

Now lets discuss the pyramids This is now an time traveling conspiracy tread :)

[@theohalwar3520]

it was the plan all the time

[@Aoskar95]

Don’t worry. We made our money back by looting Prague while pretending we didn’t know about the peace treaty we negotiated

[@matewis1]

Funniest part was that the area where the ship sank wasn't deep enough to submerge all of it. The main mast was still sticking out of the water. They just cut the top off to not impede other traffic..

[@nickn4505]

It’s probably was also one of the most depressing thing to see

[@Barneyfromhalflife1]

F for all the workers that worked on the mast

[@redxstudios2565]

imagine you working at a ship for a minute and then it sinks

[@TheGrace020]

@@redxstudios2565 imagine working years on a ship for it so sink minutes after leaving port...

[@Phrikeares]

@@TheGrace020 even worse is that no one could swim, so most people drowned. close enough for people to see others drown, not close enough to rescue them in time. the video skips over just how many people died

[@jaydave1246]

Imagine being one of the builders of the ship that worked for two years just to see it sink within a couple of minutes on its first voyage, that's heartbreaking.

[@denisla3546]

Imagine being a crew member that conducted stability test and then going on voyage knowing you are going to die. I think thats more heartbreaking, dont u think so?😬

[@Mystcret]

8:36 Funny story about pulling Vasa from the sea. During that time, some Finnish technology students were visiting in Sweden. If someone doesn't know, the technology students like to do pranks and they are known for that (at least in Finland). So, those students decided to dive and place a miniature statue of Paavo Nurmi (Finnish runner) on the deck of Vasa. When the ship was pulled out from the water, Paavo Nurmi was the first thing to appear. First, the statue was thought to be some kind of Roman/Greek god but then Finnish press recognised the identity of statue.

[@nikokorhonen8472]

And also one reason they put the statue there was that the swedes had prevented Paavo Nurmes entry to the 1932 summer olympics in Los Angeles.

[@Voix1000x]

You are wrong. This was the first submarine, the Swedes invented it...

[@Turkmenistan_Embassy]

Wow we sweds did the first submarine! Lol

[@hindd_05]

Inovation my friend!

[@fajaradi1223]

Submersible but not resurfaceable. What a brilliant idea!

[@abhipatel5468]

@@fajaradi1223 why come back up if we get fish down

[@abhipatel5468]

nope. 1st submarine was invented in 1578

[@stevebozrecreations]

Almost the exact same thing happened to the Mary Rose just outside of portsmouth less than 100 years earlier. Apparenly History really does repeat itself when people refuse to learn from it...

[@cornovii3012]

Or it turned too quickly taking on water through the hatches for the cannons while under attack from the French, no one actually knows the real reason.

[@marcustandino103]

And again, in the 20th century the government dug it up and built a museum around it. LOL

[@jonbaxter2254]

I thought it was Mary Rose glancing at the title

[@stevebozrecreations]

@@cornovii3012 Due to the refit it the MR had recently undergone where they had massively increased the armaments, taking the overall weight up well beyond the original rating and raising the center of gravity. Agree it was due to turning a corner, but the root cause of instability, and the leaning over aspect is virtually identical, one turned a corner, the other got tipped by the wind, both had the exact same overloading/instability problems, and both sank in almost the exact same way by leaning over too far and water flooding in through the gun ports.

[@Grofvolkoren]

In the Netherlands, back when it was the Seven Provinces, one of the provinces "Friesland" decided its admiralty needed some big ships. They build them at Harlingen.. but they never left port.. they couldn't.. they never could. It wasn't deep enough.

[@kooshi8933]

"How Europe's Greatest Warship Was Destroyed by a Breeze" Mongols empire: First time?

[@kyleterry5190]

Theirs was a freak cyclone, can't blame them for not knowing how to read the weather

[@mosalah8551]

Wrong analogy

[@waalter]

@@kyleterry5190 2 of them

[@inkyscrolls5193]

8:56 "And so they drug it here." As a linguist, this sentence fascinates me. A new irregular verb has been born.

[@Alexander99602]

Make it possible xd

[@Lord_Raymund]

Drag is a Swedish word for pull.

[@inkyscrolls5193]

@@Lord_Raymund It's an English word for pull as well.

[@DonutOfNinja]

@@Lord_Raymund did you mean ”drar”?

[@Kuddochan]

As someone living in Stockholm, I knew what this would be about just by reading the title lol

[@storotso]

Som gotlänning hade jag exakt samma tanke.

[@readisgooddewaterkant7890]

Jag med

[@stiverini5268]

Vi delar alla vår forna kungs misstag

[@neville1311]

as someone from sweden* Yeah everyone in Sweden knows about this

[@hyljix]

As someone living in Finland, i also knew what this would be about just by reading the title lol

[@waffle-waffle5416]

"This Ship is Brought to you by IKEA"

[@nitrovenom991]

Khi khi khi

[@sevret313]

An IKEA ship would be heavily standardized and not include such fatal mistakes as the Vasa.

[@georgf9279]

@@sevret313 Your Majesty will unfortunately need to choose either model from the programm. The Trevlig Resa will bring more sailors further while the Hela Bredden will hurl a lot of iron towards your enemy.

[@sevret313]

@@georgf9279 And for the price of one Vasa, you could get a large fleet of Ikea warships. Just make sure to not mix up the cannonballs and the meatballs.

[@agentstarkk]

The particle board used to make the ikea ship would disintegrate as soon as it touched the water.

[@CliffCardi]

King Gustavus Adolphus: “What could possibly go wrong?” Later at Lützen.... King Gustavus Adolphus: “What could possibly go wro-"

[@conors4430]

Their current Navy is pretty bad ass

[@Ezikyy]

10 minutes later

[@Ezikyy]

Look the Vasa is sinking

[@sirBrouwer]

They forgot to take there Allen key.

[@susprovider2265]

Breeze:ima end this ship whole career

[@OLLE_MCDULLE]

As a proud swede, it hurts that this guy knows more about our history than our history books. Our books only talked about the building and disaster of this ship, and never why it was bulit. Great video!

[@seanbrummfield448]

(Scoff) Try American history classes and books. We're not even as old as Sweden and they still make it a hidden effort and struggle to misinform us and not teach us everything that should be taught. Most of us have to run to KZbin, and history sites or even people from other countries to learn what should've been a history lesson.

[@lmao4982]

Did you read every swedish history book

[@OLLE_MCDULLE]

@@lmao4982 the ones we where forced to read. Three books with half a page each

[@xman5393]

I have a conspiracy theory that history textbook publishers were ordered to make school history books as boring as a possible in order to kill any interest in "further researching it"

[@Gnaaal]

It's a war ship, do you need any more context as to why it was built? :) I'm pretty sure we only touched on Vasa briefly while reading about the conflicts of the time in my history classes.

[@bigsmoke2146]

I, as a kid, was told that Vasa was the greatest warship of that time. Never knew that all it took was wind to take it out

[@Shetty404]

You, as a kid, were told that you would grow up, and order 2 no.9, and so on....

[@Peizxcv]

That makes you almost 400 years old

[@keosan]

@@Peizxcv underrated reply is underrated

[@cosiedziejepolska]

🌎

[@iamaspaceman8533]

@@Peizxcv he didn’t say he was there he just said he knew man ain’t 400 years old

[@blacktigerace6687]

thats why, a lion shouldnt force himself to fight on water

[@jospi2]

Is that a Napoleon reference?

[@_gouda7928]

@@jospi2 I think it's a sabaton reference

[@vicepresidentyoda9274]

@@_gouda7928 he was called the lion of the north cuz he was badass

[@takiman1]

That’s when dolphins would hunt lions.

[@senrogas387]

@@_gouda7928 A TIME OF RELIGION AND WAR

[@frste26]

Fun fact about the recovery of the Vasa, my great-grandfather was one of the architects that designed the shipyard where the conservation of the ship took place before they built the new museum that today houses the ship! Another fun fact about the provisional shipyard is that it later became an aquarium.

[@andreaswickman1508]

As a Swede i suspected this video would be about the vasa simply from the notification text

[@vladgogulancea345]

Vasa Museum is ironically one of the best build museum I ever visited. It is a must see when in Stochkolm.

[@Parrot49]

Stockholm*

[@V3ntilator]

I were in Stockholm twice in 2019, but didn't visit it as i couldn't park the car anywhere near.

[@waterbakey4330]

@@V3ntilatorThen walk. We walked half way across Stockholm to get there.

[@lobaxx]

@@V3ntilator Rookie mistake, never drive in Stockholm, it’s almost impossible to find parking in the city and if you do it is ridiculously expensive. Luckily public transport is very good. There is a museum tram line from the city center to the Vasa Museum so you can get something extra from the travel as well. Or you can take the commuter ferry (same ticket as with the buss or train, no extra cost) from Södermalm, and enjoy the view from the water.

[@V3ntilator]

@@lobaxx I noticed that. At least it's easy to park in Hammarsby / Mårgendalen. 250.- for each 24 hours isn't more than it costs in Oslo, so the price were okay for me. Anyways. Because of the the pandemic, it's not easy to get back there from Norway etc. without quarantine nowadays. Can't even get to Gothenburg which is nearby Norway.

[@aviz8590]

“Humans are fantastic at making mistakes” - my parents the second I was born

[@Outofcontexst]

blows air heavily

[@oladiedoo50]

*blows air heavily*

[@thelogician3845]

Blows air heavily

[@webbedcarcass9124]

lol same

[@oladiedoo50]

@@webbedcarcass9124 you fked the thread thanks.

[@pixelanation]

Sweden: "Greatest warship of all time" - barely gets out of the harbour before sinking Titanic: "The unsinkable ship" - Sinks on its maiden voyage I'm noticing a trend here

[@equestriangirly2296]

The trend is "People's ignorance always makes them think they're smart." This means you. First of all it's only the Swedish king who wanted "the greatest warship of all time" but there are actually records of more heavily armed Portuguese and Spanish war galleons which were around before Wasa. Fact is the Swedish war ship Mars built in 1564 was bigger (sunk in a battle). Aside from its heavy cannons the Wasa had nothing which could make it earn a "greatest warship of all time" moniker. It was just Swedish bragging - especially *after* she sank when the people exaggerated her size and power. The heaviest and most heavily armed battleship ever, the Yamato, was sent on its single mission to the battle of Okinawa in April 1945. She was sunk by airplanes and submarines who hit her with 10 torpedoes(!) and 7 bombs. This proved once and for all that the era of the battleship was over and that no battleship - not even the greatest ever like the Yamato - was a match for attack aircraft and submarines on her own. What was this "pattern" you're talking about for the Yamato? "Titanic: "The unsinkable ship" Nobody claimed Titanic was unsinkable. Not the White Star Line themselves nor the newspapers who wrote about her. Fact is the newspapers were mostly writing about her *luxury* and *size* . Why? Because people wanted to read about all the luxury the ship came equipped with. *A few technical magazines* - for people who were interested in the engineering *itself* - wrote about her water-tight bulkheads which made her "practically unsinkable". PRACTICALLY. AFTER she sank some people who had read those technical magazines said:"Well, I guess they were wrong." Eventually PRACTICALLY unsinkable was FORGOTTEN (by the likes of you who deal with rumors and hearsay rather than fact and credible sources) and myths were spread the ship had been called "unsinkable". "I'm noticing a trend here" Me too. You being a myopic cretin. A fool if you will. And if you're going to pull that pathetic excuse:"I wasn't serious, I was only making a joke." Well, then your humor is on the baby level too. You see, good humor is witty, clever or has levels. "Noticing a trend" - as funny as the latest overused meme. I'm noticing a trend. You not going anywhere in life.

[@janvisser4132]

@@equestriangirly2296 Wow, I am noticing a trend to. You are unnecessarily rude to someone who is just making a joke. Do you guys have a history together, otherwise I don't see why you would have to make it personal like 4 times in a post. Where is the common decency? Based on this it seems to me you are the one that is not going anywhere in life, people don't take kindly to people who are this rude. Btw, Your information on the Yamato is flawed. The Yamato had a lot of missions before Operation Ten-Go. She was at Midway (not with the Kido Butai, but in the trailing force of Admiral Yamamoto), she was torpedoed and repaired, was present at the Battles of the Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf (not really involved, but present), was damaged by bombs from planes from the carries USS Essex in the battle of Sibuyan Sea, and took part in the Battle off Samar. So she has an extensive record of missions, she just didn't attribute much to those battles. So, to take over your style, YOU ARE AN IDIOT. You just believe the fairy tales of Yamato only being in Japan because the Japanese feared she would be sunk, instead of doing research, checking facts and credible sources. People's ignorance always makes them think they're smart." This means you. You are a fool, and don't try to pull any pathetic excuses, if you want to talk someone down like you did you better have your facts straight, you myopic cretin. You wouldn't recognise good humor if it hit you in the face. You are not going anywhere in life. I hope you get my point. It's better to be nice to people, and recpectfully explain what they do wrong, that way they may learn something. If we just all have a basic level of respect for one another, this world will be a better place.

[@Daniel_Huffman]

_Olympic_ was dubbed “practically” unsinkable first, and despite running into trouble repeatedly throughout her career, she never sank. But if you insist on superstitious cherry-picking, the German battleship _Bismarck_ sank on her maiden voyage, though the circumstances of her loss shouldn’t be held against her.

[@LightxHeaven]

If you’re in Stockholm during non-pandemic times I’d recommend going to the Vasa Museum to check out the ship in person. It’s a pretty awesome experience. It’s been super well preserved considering it was only raised from the water recently.

[@bigjicespice2743]

Historically speaking, this is why you never go sailing on a very windy day.

[@just_a_turtle_chad]

A turtle doesn't approve sailing on a very windy day.

[@bigjicespice2743]

@@just_a_turtle_chad What does this video have to do with turtles?

[@grizzlybears]

@@bigjicespice2743 nothing that’s what

[@Tzilandi]

"Windy day" he calls it, little realising that "the wind" was just some 6yo swedish kid blowing raspberries at the ship from a nearby beach.

[@bigjicespice2743]

@@Tzilandi If my calculations are correct, there was no 6-year-old Swedish kid blowing raspberries at the ship from a nearby beach in the 17th century. That would have happened in the 21st century.

[@kacperwoch4368]

6:20 Trying to tip over the ship by running back and forth? That's the best pirate move I've ever seen

[@danielch6662]

They should have kept doing that. Have all the sailors on deck, run to the starboard side if the wind tips the ship to port.

[@Lord_Raymund]

This was probably the inspiration for that scene in the movie

[@harpersferryblues]

Finally, you made this a video. Having known this for a looong time it makes me happy people know this

[@MrFiinay]

Just discovered your videos yesterdays and i love it, especially the one's around nation's regional geography. You keep it pretty damn accurate and the vulgarisation with video game meta rules are really cool

[@alexkim3794]

The wind: well that was a breeze

[@just_a_turtle_chad]

That breeze was Turtle Approved

[@Joopitah]

**blows**

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

The Sailor: Jeez

[@animalmother8730]

Please leave lol

[@alexkim3794]

@@Ruaridh4 lol no I'm turning 22 in few months. But I would love to have children some day. Just not right now

[@Randomaited]

I’ve been to the Vasa Museum, it’s well worth a visit if you’re in Stockholm

[@nattygsbord]

And also if you are nerdy in warships from 1500s, 1600s or 1700s and such.. then it is worth a visit.

[@Parrot49]

Yep

[@GreenBlueWalkthrough]

The funny thing about comparing the Death star to the Vasa is it needed to vent heat and was made to engage with capital ships with a massive starfighter wing on board and Luke had to use the force to bend the torpedos 90 degrees into the exhaust port. The Vasa did not need to be built top-heavy and lop sided.

[@TheFlamingGamerYT]

I remember watching one of your videos a while ago, and I had recently remembered your channel. I find it interesting that this ship was something that was built. I can’t imagine being on a replica of the Vasa, with that many cannons on it. It’s terrible it sank from a breeze, but hey, flaws makes people human. And flaws allow for us to improve. You make great videos, and I’m so glad to be back watching them again

[@VicHD]

This story almost feels like a Looney Tunes short.

[@OHOE1]

69 passengers 👀

[@knallpistolen]

@@OHOE1 nice

[@DarwinskiYT]

Yeah it does

[@spacemama5836]

So thats why pewdiepie never mentions the Swedish navy while playing war and thunder

[@petergray2712]

This was their only big blunder. The Swedes were successful against the Danes and Russians in naval operations.

[@gagex6345]

Despite great successes on the battlefield, inadequate economy and small manpower caused the demise of the Swedish Empire, which ended its 110-year period as a great power in 1721. At the time of the Thirty Years War Finns represented essential part of the Swedish army. Roughly 2/5 from the infantry and 3/7 from the cavalry in the army were from FINLAND. They served in their own units which used Finnish as their main language. Approximately 110 000 soldiers from Finland lost their lives serving the Swedish Empire between 1617-1721. The point is that without the military support of the Finns, Sweden would not have gotten so far...

[@TheRacoonGhost]

@@gagex6345 yes and no, finnland was for all intents and purposes part of sweden back then, Rome would never have become an empire if it only ever used soldiers from the city of Rome itself...

[@Jimrlst]

@@gagex6345 Karl XII was the demise of the Swedish Empire

[@TheRacoonGhost]

i meen we do have some of the most advanced ships in the world nowdays (although only a handfull of them) i recomend looking up the Gotland class submarine or Visby class corvette

[@suabr]

Plot twist: the Swedish king always knew a successful museum would be made to fund generations of Swedes, 4 centuries after he died. National hero.

[@adur_aeon]

Me reading the title: "Cool, must be the British or Spanish" Me seeing the ship and flag: "Helvete"

[@luca920]

When you procrastinate and then copy paste wikipedia and then the teacher finds out

[@markusisaksson6023]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@aeronaut1906]

Lmao

[@kaboomgaming4255]

*doesn't find out And then you take the exam

[@youssefwalli9098]

Me:NO YOU ARE DOING IT TO. GRR!!!!!!!!

[@ryanramjattan8714]

Warship: Exists Movement of air: Im about to end this mans whole career

[@boonanabanana]

Right

[@Outofcontexst]

Right

[@topsdaily_productions]

Right

[@larsolof3291]

Left

[@ryanramjattan8714]

Wrong

[@felixmiddendorf7090]

9:07 omg I'm so amazed that you actually used footage of a ship I've sailed on...

[@sitara2783]

I went to the Vaasa museum years ago on my honeymoon and it was absolutely spectacular. I wish I could go see it again and really appreciate it more, as well as pay my respects to the people who died aboard. Thanks for reminding me of a better time.

[@Siddhartha02]

Why on earth you didn't include a single image or clip of the actual intact ship found inside the musuem I will never understand, theres plenty of videos of it on youtube.

[@zarwil]

I'm pretty sure the museum doesn't allow recording the ship, some people do anyways

[@bingoberra18]

There was a part where you se the model of the ship in the foreground and the real one in the background.

[@northland7885]

@@zarwil It is allowed to take picture and take videos of the ship.

[@jbird4478]

Copyright probably. You can't just take a clip from somewhere and put it in your video.

[@jholotanbest2688]

I don't get it. Stock photo sites are full of images and videos of the ship for not many dollars.

[@MrCarpelan]

As a Swede, seeing the thumbnail of this video made my heart sink. At least we got a nice museum out of it.

[@mattias1486]

Turistintäkterna är tröstpriset.

[@Outofcontexst]

Your hearts not the only thing that sank

[@setlerking]

Its honestly amazing to see it in real life for the first time. It’s fucking massive and beautiful, it looks like a spooky ghost ship. Most people here though have seen it’s several times already so it’s not that amazing anymore but if you’re ever in Stockholm check it out, it’s really fascinating.

[@MrSB007]

Nobody is talking about the smooth transition to 'Brilliant' ad, smooth!

[@DyslexicMitochondria]

Your videos are so beautifully edited. Keep up the great work

[@epicstuff7522]

ikr

[@trumpputinkim]

trueeee

[@LoganNagol]

I mean not really, they ain’t bad or anything but there is nothing special about it. And that’s not a bad thing bc these kind of videos don’t need it

[@DyslexicMitochondria]

@@LoganNagol you're absolutely stupid. Try making a video even close to this one and you'll see how difficult it is. Internet tard

[@driver288]

Thanks for the love ❤️ 🇸🇪

[@Mctrippzy]

My dad was working in Stockholm when I was 11 and I went over there. We went to the Vasa museum, it’s till the best I’ve ever been to. It is massive, the carvings and the work put into is unreal. Well worth a visit if you go. I was on two planes on my own coming home on 9/11 and it was my first day at secondary school. Won’t go on a plane again lol

[@cvkline]

If you ever get to visit Stockholm, be sure to visit the Vasa Museum. It’s well-run, the docents are all very knowledgeable so there’s lots to learn, and the ship herself is beautiful to see. It was definitely one of the best things we did on our vacation.

[@caleb.z]

It seems there's a pattern: If you try to make an astonishing accomplishment with a means of travel, your project is already a failure.

[@guigui70051]

That's why Elon Musk abandonned the Hyperloop

[@gonun69]

No, the problem is when politicians get involved in the design instead of leaving it to engineers.

[@caleb.z]

@@gonun69 Were politicians involved that much in the Titanic?

[@gonun69]

@@caleb.z I don't know about that and it's not my point. Just because no politicians had their sticky fingers in the design process, the project can still fail. But when some politicians or other non-experts make design changes on the go, the chances of a project to fail increase a lot.

[@raymartcarreon6069]

@@gonun69 you were right as the incidents on ships like HMS Hood(she couldve gotten an upgrade on armor in the 1930s but they canceled it and decided to send her to circumnavigate the world instead)and KMS Bismarck(not even his admiral was happy with the ship gettibg sent to convoy raiding but Shitler wants Bismarck to get sent there anyways) but on the Titanic it probably has something to do with the officers or the budget of White Star Line when they made the ship plus it was supposed to have some counter-sinking technology things right?

[@karlzen86]

1:45 - Gustavus Adolphus, Libera et impera Acerbus et ingens, Augusta per augusta

[@Elnadrius]

A time of religion and war legends tell the tale of a lion

[@Jacob-fo1yl]

This beast in the shape of a man with a dream to rule sea and land!

[@hutnergino5759]

And all those who stand in his way die by god, and victorious arms

[@balls_balls6050]

With a righteous that follows him south once more set ashore to war!

[@tandvard9088]

Legends have taught, battles fought. This lion has no fear at heart.

[@Starach]

They sent some poor sods down in some pretty basic diving bells back when it sank to retrieve some of the cannons. Also the Vasa Museum in Stockholm is WELL worth a visit.

[@magnusamann6806]

I wouldn't worry about these diving bells. Seems like the local shipyard was pretty good at building underwater-boats...

[@DawnyPotter]

I saw the title and hoped this was about the Vasa! Thank you for not disappointing me! I highly recommend the Vasa Museum. I didn't expect a lot but it was fantastic!

[@ecdudis9557]

Well the Titanic was basically sunk by water, so that’s that.

[@tankiwolf]

Iceberg

[@xbmpr]

@@tankiwolf hard water

[@FonVegen]

Technically *every* ship that sinks is sunk by water. Water gets in, ship goes down. But I concede that it's a matter of perspective, really.

[@maksak3662]

I mean mother nature taking revenge from us the next thing we know earth blows up

[@oskarsrode2167]

My sister worked as a guide at the museum some 20 years ago. American tourists sometimes thought it was a replica.

[@sagacious03]

Okay video! Thanks for uploading!

[@Inbal_Feuchtwanger]

This is so cool. I went to the Vasa Museet 10 years ago and this just reminded me of it.

[@Elfiziancie]

Ships that got tested for Nukes: Weakness disgusts me!

[@mr.derpyface558]

Underrated

[@aureusknighstar2195]

USS Nevada

[@a.l.e.x8118]

Uss Prinz Eugen 😂

[@Craig-xb2eh]

IJN Nagato

[@Elfiziancie]

USS Saratoga

[@SandHanitizerOnMyDogs]

Sabaton better make a song about this.

[@Guy.WhoAsked]

No.

[@Guy.WhoAsked]

Please no

[@Guy.WhoAsked]

Just let this be ours

[@jacksoncordray1593]

Look up man of the hour by falconer, please. It’s a very underrated Swedish power metal group and their song Man of the Hour is about this exact ship/the one battle it fought in and was destroyed in

[@jacksoncordray1593]

Ah shit, upon reading more comments it looks like the song I mentioned is about another ship in the almost exact same predicament in nearly the same place, the Mary rose. When fighting the French in its first battle, it tried to take too sharp of a turn and, having the same exact problem the vasa had of being overweighed on one side, capsized immediately. My mistake, though you should still check out the song man!

[@alexritchie4586]

A similar thing happened to Henry VIII's flagship, the Mary Rose. It was so overloaded with cannons that when they fired a salute to the King on its maiden launch from Portsmouth, the recoil blew the ship onto its side and capsized it 😂

[@architect11]

The Mary Rose sank 34 years after its maiden voyage.

[@ItsMzPhoenix]

I visited the Vasa Museum in Stockholm back in 2017 on a Baltic cruise! If I remember correctly, a combination of factors helped slow the Vasa's decay while it was submerged for all that time - hence why it's so intact.

[@Phrikeares]

You forgot to mention that the cannon balls and stuff inside also fell to one side, causing even more tilt

[@ZaHandle]

Free surface effect intensifies

[@unirytmi5020]

i love how every nordic person just instantly knew what ship you were talking about lol

[@Phrikeares]

it is impossible to escape, if you grow up in sweden you will be taken to the museum many times over (it is great 10/10 would go again)

[@noodengr3three825]

I got to tour the Vasa in March 2018. Simply amazing preserved piece of early 17th century life and an amazing act of modern restoration

[@missilenx3777]

I havent finished the video yet so i dont know if he mentions this. But this ship was recovered from the sea and is in a museum in stockholm right now and i have visited it. It was epic!

[@missilenx3777]

Done now and saw he talked about it whoops

[@theconservativehighschoo1795]

Never knew I needed this knowledge

[@ryankurtz5233]

That's what I love about RealLifeLore

[@never8931]

Neither did I but i still dont give a damn

[@theconservativehighschoo1795]

@Hamza Karim yeah same

[@60secondfinance81]

Next video on Wendover: The logistics of flying warships

[@TheArtikae]

if you live in Jupiter, every warship is a flying warship. 🤔

[@vylbird8014]

Flying aircraft carriers were briefly a thing - lighter-than-air airships with aircraft bays. But they proved to be impractical. Slow, expensive, dangerous to operate, and very fragile.

[@Angremaan]

Congrats for 4 mil subscribers!! 🥳

[@calmmongol724]

The Captain's last words before disaster: "Ah, what a nice morning breeze"

[@FiskFilleAR]

I've been at the Vasa museum and seen the ship with my own eyes. The sheer scale of it is just staggering, something that can't quite be fully grasped when looking at pictures or video of it. Very cool stuff.

[@nattygsbord]

Indeed. 10.000 large oak trees to just build one boat

[@bananaspice1967]

Henrik: Trust me this is fine 'Ship sinks' Henrik: *Oh shit*

[@tankiwolf]

It was more the fault of the king tho

[@bananaspice1967]

Yeah, but someone's gonna get punished for that.

[@hannaszabo4881]

@@bananaspice1967 actually Henrik died a year before the launch. someone else "finished" the ship

[@bananaspice1967]

@@hannaszabo4881 He predicted the future.

[@Belpsipop]

“T’s just a slight breeze!” ... “aaaaaaaaa”

[@daledolan-zalaznick844]

I’ve been waiting for someone to do a video on this for like 6 years lol

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

7:30 perfectly balanced as all things should be

[@onebridge7231]

The Swedes played the very long game to get that Museum they wanted!

[@HyperSonicX]

I've actually been to see this thing, it is a MIGHTY impressive sight.

[@jimmeade2976]

I've been to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm. It's very interesting. The entire ship (over 80% original) is on display, along with a model and its entire story. Several of the original colorful carved figures are also on display. The ship is a fantastic artwork ... not much of a military ship though.

[@pearshapedbrain]

really cool having a video made about a story i already knew of, i think scandinavian history should be more widespread

[@pearshapedbrain]

as a kid i was told stories of the vasa, specifically that the amount of leeches in the area it sunk were significally the year after it sunk, which leaves a nice mental image

[@quietly-curious]

JUST CURIOUS... who has the habit of reading the comments section while watching the video?

[@bangonkali]

👋

[@Adrian_Ibraheem]

me

[@thatdude9091]

Only when the video isn’t good enough to entertain me on its own, since I fail to listen + read comments at the same time

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

I wasn’t. I read it after words. Very mature of me

[@Retaliatixn]

Me. Sometimes I come for a video only to watch comments, or if I don't have my earphones, I watch comments to understand what the video is talking about, if I'm in a public or professional place where I don't have them or can't use them.

[@dinizec]

Had the pleasure of visiting Stockholm and going to the vasa museum last month and it was AWESOME! Highly suggest

[@reitheinsolvable7380]

"the bigger they are... The harder they fall"

[@zobr0s77]

Ewww fuck valorant

[@reitheinsolvable7380]

@@zobr0s77 who is valorant

[@zobr0s77]

@@reitheinsolvable7380 yes what you yes ss

[@Svitjodrus.]

Knip igen

[@zobr0s77]

@@reitheinsolvable7380 u f is ool you gay

[@HoddemannNor]

As a fellow Scandinavian I feel a sense of sadness. However, as a Norwegian I cannot help myself thinking LOL, LMAO, LOL, LMAO, *typical swedes*, LOL, LMAO :')

[@storotso]

Honestly as a swede, the story of the Vasa is endlessly amusing to me as well. if it was actually built well it would've been sad, but since it was never gonna last long regardless it's much better that a breeze toppled it immediately.

[@kamilszadkowski8864]

What's even more ridiculous and amusing is... Swedes for a time were trying to cover up their mistakes by accusing Poles of sending agents to sabotage the building of Vasa.

[@alaric_]

I share your feeling on the second part ;D Had swedes succeed on building these, no one knows but at worst there could be just one country in scandinavia today.. So, lucky we! :)

[@svensson9803]

At least we can play hockey

[@cloudy9593]

Europe’s greatest warship: A breeze: *and I took that personally*

[@Monkey_XDD]

Haha wind goes *woosh*

[@Outofcontexst]

Haha wind goes woosh

[@gregthompson5580]

I went to the Vasa museum in Stockholm with my friend before the pandemic started off and it was a really cool place. Really miss those times 😔

[@Beckromancer]

I live like an hour away from the Vasa museum. My class went there a bunch of times when I was little. It's a really cool place with an interesting story behind it

[@P0w2you]

I saw this ship at the museum! in 2018! lol as soon as I saw the title I was like he's talking about the Vasa isn't he? woot! I was right lol

[@JAProductions494]

Before watching the video: “It’s the Mary Rose right!?” After watching the video: “Oh, it was Swedish”

[@silvanadair4888]

4milion here we go, you were at 230k when I subbed. Good job

[@nhytg376tgyuu765gjmg]

A few important things missing: 1. due to time constraints, they had not put in all the ballast yet at the maiden joerney, they was planning to do this later. 2. they had more sail out then the wind called for, because they wanted it to look more impressive to the crowd. 3. the cannons wasn't secured. Because this first joerney was planned to be a short one inside Mälaren and not in the open sea. When the ship tilted the heavy cannons (and balls) slided over to the lower side. 3. they had more people onboard than it was designed for and most was on the top deck, making it even more destabilised.

[@DougGlendower]

"How Europe's Most Poorly Designed Warship Was Predictably Destroyed By Existing" - FIFY.

[@Indikissa]

That was worlds first U-ship! "U" stands for unstable, how ever if you would to decide to visist sweden and go to the ship. I recommend to be there really really early.

[@planefan082]

The Vasa is super freaking cool, I'm glad I had the pleasure of visiting once

[@kev1830]

So close to 4 mil!!! You got this dude!