Kalmar Nyckel, tall ship of Delaware. (reconstruction)
Posted on 05/12/2013 10:05:51 AM PDT by Viiksitimali
King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden were greeted by hundreds of Delawareans as they celebrated the 375th anniversary of the New Sweden Colony, known today as the city of Wilmington.
The Swedish royals, along with Finland's Speaker of the Parliament Eero Heinäluoma, began their day in Delaware with a luncheon at the Bunea Vista Mansion in New Castle with Governor Jack Markell.
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Kalmar Nyckel, tall ship of Delaware. (reconstruction)
Terrific...thanks for the link.
The Swedish Royals, like many of the continental royals have taste and decency and brains - unlike the dimwitted trolls in the House of Hanover/Saxe-Coburg-Gotha/Windsor who are as dumb as a stump and yet have managed to corner an incredible amount of their nation’s GNP while they spend their time communing with horses which probably have more brains than they do.
On the other hand, the Swedish Royals would do well to take their country back from the Muslim savages who have invaded it.
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Kalmar Nyckel - AWESOME!!!
Scandinavians made beautiful ships - just like their women!!
See Norske Love and the Vasa.
The Sa’ami would be well advised to tighten up their immigration policy as well ~ they can do a blood test now to see if you qualify to be considered indigenous!
Swedes had colonies all up and down the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River, all the way up to Port Jervis area of NY State. They would harvest crops and timber, build the timber into barges, and float down the Delaware River to ports around Philadelphia, PA, Camden, NJ and Wilmington, Delaware, sell the crops and the timber, and then walk home for up to two weeks.
Still plenty of place names in NW NJ, Northeastern PA, and the NY side of the NY/PA border with Swedish names.
Wow! Beautiful craftsmanship. All hand tools in those days too.
Great link to the KN and a charming cat.
I live in New Jersey and I would love to get down there to see the Kalmar Nyckel.
Those sailing ships were the technological and artistic acroteria of their day.
GGGGG13grandfather Andersson left to marry a wife and came back to settle in Philadelphia and raise a son. Either he was very brave, very ambitious, or there was nothing very attractive about Europe at the time.
The Viking ships of 500 years earlier were amazing too.
Oseberg Ship. That and the Gokstad are really things of beauty. They must have looked even better slipping through the waves.
Not one drop of recent Norse blood in me but I love things Viking. Sagas, ships, artwork, language.
Nor me. My most recent immigrant ancestor came from Ireland. Of course he could have had Viking blood. LOL.
But, I’m fascinated with the long ago Swedish bloodlines in my family that were unknown because of the name change in the late 1600s. Everybody previously thought they were English with (maybe) Swiss forebears.
It’s so long ago that I doubt that it affects me (except for the desire to go sailing on a tall ship), although most of us are blonde and blue-eyed. I married a “half” Italian, so I put a halt to that! LOL.
Contact the dock before you go to make sure that it is in port. It takes trips in the summer time, I'm told. Probably participates in those "Tall Ships" regattas up and down the East Coast.
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