Tom Metcalfe is a freelance journalist and regular Live Science contributor who is based in London in the United Kingdom. Tom writes mainly about science, space, archaeology, the Earth and the oceans. He has also written for the BBC, NBC News, National Geographic, Scientific American, Air & Space, and many others.\n
A 15th-century royal warship resting off the coast of Sweden once served as a"floating castle" for an intrepid king, according to new underwater investigation that revealed cannons, handguns, crossbows and the vessel's stern superstructure.
The 115-foot-long wooden ship was one of the first vessels designed to carry artillery. It also utilized the new"carvel" shipbuilding technique, imported to the Baltic from the Mediterranean, of joining the planks of the hull edge to edge on a wooden frame instead of overlapping them in"lapstrakes."That meant the Gribshunden could be built larger and stronger than ships with lapstrakes, and so it could carry more in heavier seas.
The son of the previous Danish king, Hans ruled Denmark from 1481 and gained the crown of Norway in 1483, but Sweden didn't submit to his rule until 1497. The king and his retinue were onshore at the time, but a witness to the disaster said many of the roughly 150 men onboard were killed. But there was no sign of fire, so the ship probably sank quickly after being holed below the waterline, possibly because its stores of gunpowder had exploded."It's one of the first ships carrying gunpowder, so they probably hadn't worked out standard operating procedures for safety," Foley said.Image 1 of 3Floating castleLocal divers rediscovered the wreck of the Gribshunden near Ronneby in the 1970s, beneath about 33 feet of water.
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