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The head on the beakhead of the 17th-century warship Vasa. The toilets are the two square box-like structures on either side of the bowsprit. On the starboard side, there are still minor remnants of the original seat. In sailing vessels, the head is the ship's toilet.
The helm is located a deck below, in the gunroom, which is the aftermost compartment on the lower gundeck. It passes through an opening in the stern to connect to the top of the rudder head. [42] Vasa represents the only complete surviving and fully investigated example of a whipstaff steering system.
The House of Vasa or Wasa [2] (Swedish: Vasaätten, Polish: Wazowie, Lithuanian: Vazos) was a royal house that was founded in 1523 in Sweden.Its members ruled the Kingdom of Sweden from 1523 to 1654 and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1587 to 1668.
Due to its historical association with a sheaf, it has sometimes been called vasakärven, "the Vasa sheaf". The vase was used as a nationalist symbol during the 1930s and 1940s, especially by fascist and nazist groups in Sweden, such as the Swedish National Socialist Workers' Party ( Svensk socialistisk samling ) under Sven Olov Lindholm (1903 ...
The Vasa Museum (Swedish: Vasamuseet) is a maritime museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Located on the island of Djurgården , the museum displays the only almost fully intact 17th-century ship that has ever been salvaged, the 64-gun warship Vasa that sank on her maiden voyage in 1628.
The Crown of Sweden was hereditary in the House of Vasa, but following the reign of Christina's grandfather (r. 1604–11), it excluded Vasa princes descended from a deposed brother (Eric XIV of Sweden) and a deposed nephew (Sigismund III of Poland). Gustavus Adolphus's legitimate younger brothers had died years earlier.
The Vasa National Archives is a 501(c)3 and its parent organization the Vasa Order of America is a 501(c)8. The Vasa National Archives term of office is four years. The Vasa National Archives president position is held by the outgoing grand lodge grand master (ending a grand lodge four-year term).
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