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To: Rockpile
the sunken warship in the Baltic

Do you mean the Vasa?

My mother and her globe-trotting friends saw that on their Scandinavian Capitals Plus St. Petersburg tour. She brought me the book from the museum.

42 posted on 04/24/2016 2:44:00 PM PDT by Tax-chick (The kitten's name is Bonkers.)
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To: Tax-chick

I think the jacket with the remains of it’s owner inside it were in the Swedish battleship Kronan which blew up in battle in 1676.

Amazing how many billions of garments have been made over the millenia and how few have survived.


43 posted on 04/24/2016 4:22:17 PM PDT by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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