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Matle
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Gripen had a complement of 30 sailors according to the crew list of 1599 - from that it should be possible to guess her size to roughly 300 tonnes (in Glete's way of calculating).
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I haven't read his book but the answer is yes. Björn Landström describes it in The Ship as well. I don't know why hKirsch drew her as English as it is more likely that it's a Dutch construction. Generally speaking the shallow-draft Dutch style was common in Sweden in the end of the 16th century - not until the last half of the 17th century did English influences become dominant (and would remain so until Chapman).
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There's Storkyrkoskeppet from the main church in Stockholm, a contemporary model of a late 16th century galleon presumably made around 1600. It's a votive ship, meaning that the hull is deliberately more slender than it should have been to enable view from below (it's been hanging in the church). The model is now stored at the museum and a new model is on display in the church. Link to the register card at the musem: http://www.marinmuseum.se/sv/Samlingar/MarketStore/Foremal1/?msobjid=0012441 The new model: Source:https://www.flickr.com/photos/109551672@N02/15607968081/
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Also bear in mind that there are no plans of the actual Kalmar Nyckel, however well-researched the replica was. In other words, you might as well use plans/kits for any other Dutch pinnace and bash it. There's a thread about Papegojan, another Dutch-built pinnace from the very same period that also was acquired by the Swedes at the same time as Kalmar Nyckel. There are plans (and even a cardboard kit) available for that one. Haven't seen any wooden kits, but it might be possible to find.
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Hello all! This is my first post hereabouts, registered some time ago to learn something about the hobby. Didn't plan to post yet, but I found this thread by coincidence and felt the urge to chip in. I built a lot of (plastic) models years ago and recently got inspired to start building ships in wood instead. My goal is to scratch-build but I wanted to start learning by building the kit I wanted to have as a kid - Corel's Amphion. Talk about disappointment - only a couple of hours of research showed that the ship in the kit has nothing in common with the Amphion except that her lines were drawn by the same gentleman. I have nothing against fictitious ships but when the entire kit description is made up it's quite a let-down, especially when half the fun - for me at least - is doing the research and recreating something out of the past. I will order it anyway, if for no other reason than because I promised I would decades ago, so I hope the kit itself is nicely designed.
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