Image Credit: A Remarkably Intact 16th-Century Shipwreck Just Surfaced Off Sweden’s Coast. Image credit: Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP
The most exciting shipwreck discovery in recent years has just been unearthed off the Swedish coast, and it predates the country’s most famous warship.
By Arezki Amiri
The sonar ping came during a routine drill. The crew of a Swedish submarine rescue ship was training in the Baltic Sea in late 2025 when the signal returned something no one expected: a wooden ship lying on the seafloor, intact after more than four centuries.
That discovery, announced Tuesday by the County Administrative Board of Kalmar County, is a warship from the late 1500s. It now ranks among the oldest vessel finds in the Kalmar Strait, the narrow channel between Sweden’s southeastern mainland and the island of Öland.
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