One of His Majesty's ‘Beste Kraffwells’: the wreck of an early carvel-built ship at Franska Sternarna, Sweden

Abstract

We report recent fieldwork on an early‐16th‐century wreck in the Stockholm archipelago, Sweden. The discovery not only provides new insights into early carvel shipbuilding and its adoption across northern Europe but manifests the changing role of ships and the nature of power and agency in the process of state formation at the dawn of the modern world. © 2012 The Authors

Mars(1564): the initial archaeological investigations of a great 16th-century Swedish warship

“…The first ships of this navy had already been bought from Lübeck during the rebellion against Denmark, one of which has been found and investigated in the Stockholm archipelago (see Adams and Rönnby, , ). After the coronation, Gustav Vasa built his own warships in several places along the Swedish east coast and in Finland.…”

An Assemblage of Early Modern Ordnance and Ground Tackle from South-west Cyprus

“…The proportions of the anchor and the angle of its arms to the shank are similar to anchors dating from the 16th century discovered during investigations of San Juan (Moore et al ., 2007: 76–7); Mary Rose (McElvogue, : 277–80); San Esteban (Arnold and Weddle, : 224–30, Table J.1); La Trinidad Valencera , the Venetian ship Balancera (Martin, : 31); Vasa (Cederlund, : 99, fig. ); and the Mortella II and III (de la Roche, : 76–7); Emanuel Point (Burns, : 72–6); and Kravel shipwrecks (Adams and Rönnby : 108, fig. ; pers.…”