Galleon

Vasamuseet - Stockholm, Sweden. "Boat Ghost"
I spent an afternoon in the Vasa Musuem last week. The Vasa is a war ship that was built at the request of the Swedish King Gustav II Adolf. It set sail on August 10, 1628 from Stockholm and sank 25 minutes into its maiden voyage with a large population of Stockholm watching from the banks. After the ship had sank only its masts stuck up above the water. Those masts were then sawed off so the people could begin to forget about the catastrophe and embarrasment. Sweden and the world were allowed to forget until 1961 when the boat was salvaged by Swedish marine technician and amateur archaeologist Anders Franzén. The boat was carefully extracted from the water still nearly complete after water-logging for 333 years. After another 30 years of restoration the boat was fully restored and opened for the public to see. About 30 people died in the wreck. I saw about 25 ghosts in the museum that day.