1 posted on
11/17/2011 6:59:36 AM PST by
decimon
To: SunkenCiv
To the sea in ships ping.
2 posted on
11/17/2011 7:00:08 AM PST by
decimon
To: decimon
An explosion at the rear of the ship? Herring.....they were cooking herring and they blew the ship up. How do you explain that to the king? Best to go down with the ship.
3 posted on
11/17/2011 7:23:29 AM PST by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: decimon
...found it between the Swedish islands Gotland and Oland at a depth of between 50 and 100 meters, surrounded by the hundreds of canons it carried when it went under.Hundreds of cannons?
No wonder it sank.
6 posted on
11/17/2011 12:11:25 PM PST by
Rudder
(The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
To: decimon
Oh to be young again.
Being involved in such discoveries would be so darn sweet.
9 posted on
11/17/2011 5:25:58 PM PST by
Gator113
(~Just livin' life, my way~.. Newt/West 2012.“I’ve got a lot swirling around in my head.”)
To: decimon; All
“17th century warship whose captain went down with it ...”
Surely an ancestor of MINE! If they find treasure I claim it for my booty.
10 posted on
11/17/2011 5:53:19 PM PST by
Winstons Julia
(Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
To: decimon
For the last time, I wasn’t at the helm!
12 posted on
11/17/2011 9:46:33 PM PST by
Altariel
(`)
To: decimon; SunkenCiv
According to Wiki, the Svardot was set on fire by a fire ship. This painting shows the Swedish flagship exploding after it foundered at the outset of the battle. Svardot is shown surrounded by allied ships.
The flagship, Kronen, was the largest ship in the Swedish navy at the time and was armed with 126 guns. So, the story of "hundreds" of cannon is in doubt, unless they were counting cannon from other sunk ships. According to Wiki the Swedes lost five ships to sinking while the allies only lost the one ship they fired.
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