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*9L x *8W x *7H (cm)
*1L x 7W x *0H (inch)
Wasa  is a Swedish warship built *******8. The ship foundered and sank after sailing about 1,**0 m into her maiden voyage on *0 August ***8. She fell into obscurity after most of her valuable bronze cannons were salvaged in the *7th century until she was located again in the late ***0s in a busy shipping lane just outside the Stockholm harbor. Salvaged with a largely intact hull in ***1, she was housed in a temporary museum called Wasavarvet until ***8 and then moved to the Wasa Museum in Stockholm. The ship is one of Sweden's most popular tourist attractions and has been seen by over *9 million visitors since ***1. Wasa has since her recovery become a widely recognized symbol of the Swedish "great power period". She is today also a de facto standard in the media and among Swedes for evaluating the historical importance of shipwrecks.