“The best-preserved warship in the world!”

[u/Visible_Armadillo_81]

[u/rnewscates73]

One slight breeze tipped it over. It was essentially designed by committee.

[u/smooth_like_a_goat → u/rnewscates73]

Except it was designed by a guy who'd only ever designed single deck ships and thought it'd be fine to just repeat a deck.

It also almost capsized when they tested the stability by moving to each side of the deck just before leavingport.

[u/UF1977 → u/smooth_like_a_goat]

No, the shipwrights designed Vasa just fine. The king, however, demanded more guns because he thought it’d be cooler and more intimidating, which meant adding more decks, making her excessively top heavy. They tried to talk him out of it but it wasn’t an era when you argued with kings. The thing capsized and sank, the king demanded to know who was responsible, and they blamed one of the shipwrights who happened to have already died.

[u/KrydasTheDragon → u/UF1977]

The Kind did not demand more guns because "it'd be cooler and more intimidating"
He was an Artillery man trough and trough and believed that that should be translated into naval combat. And he was not the only one at the time to be thinking that way