LUND, SWEDEN—In line with an announcement launched by Lund University, Brendan Foley and a group of researchers from Lund College, Blekinge Museum, and the Danish Viking Ship Museum have returned to the well-preserved wreckage of Gribshunden, which sank in 1495 off the coast of Ronneby, Sweden. The vessel served because the flagship of the Danish Norwegian King Hans, and is among the first to have been constructed to hold artillery. The group members recovered artillery, handguns, and main elements of the steering gear and sterncastle. They’re additionally creating 3-D digital fashions of Gribshunden to research how the tightly confined areas on board could have been utilized by the king and his noblemen whereas at sea for months at a time. Future excavations will examine why the ship sank on a voyage to Kalmar, Sweden, the place King Hans anticipated to be elected king of Sweden. “Medieval paperwork state that there was a fireplace and explosion, however now we have not seen any indicators of that,” Foley mentioned. To examine a earlier discovery from the wreck of Gribshunden, go to “Around the World: Sweden.”