Tenshinai wrote:Joat42 wrote:Well, originally it was a working design but someone wanted more of everything which made her top-heavy and unstable with predictable results.
When i looked it up to make sure i didn´t say anything wrong, i actually found that this may be a myth.
Examinations have been done that shows no changes in the design after construction started, and the number of guns ordered (early on) were what was later used.
#####rdt wrote:Since Vasa never completed her maiden voyage (blub, blub), it certainly was a naval design failure for all the reasons stated in the above posts. But the ship itself is a beauty. The carving and wood sculpting are exquisite. And the Swedes have done a magnificent job of exhibiting the ship and much of its human elements in the Vasa museum in Stockholm. Were air travel more comfortable these days, it would almost be worth a trip to Stockholm just to see that. As it is Stockholm for a week is, in itself, a worthwhile holiday destination.
Yeah, i´ve been there a few times since i grew up in Stockholm, and it really is an awesome sight.
And like joat says, Stockholm is definitely an excellent place to visit, IN SUMMER.
The real problem wasn't mucking around with her design after it was officially "frozen" (that's more of a modern USN tradition ). It was simply that no one knew how to make proper stability calculations and when concerns were expressed, the "whistleblowers" were told to sit down and shut up. It's nice to know that some bureaucratic and government agency traditions have been around for so long, isn't it?