TWO WELL-PRESERVED 17th-century wrecks found 18 months ago at Vaxholm in Sweden’s Stockholm Archipelago have now been positively identified – and they are not the ships they were first thought to be.
The vessels are not sister-ships of the famed Vasa, the earlier 17thcentury warship displayed in Stockholm, but they are warships – the Apollo and the Maria, both built in 1648 and scuttled in 1677.