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Gribshunden wreck

The flagship of King Hans of Denmark, which exploded, burned and sank at anchor off Ronneby in June 1495 on the way to a summit in Kalmar. Found by local divers in the 1970s and identified in 2002, it is the best-preserved warship yet found from the late Middle Ages.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1486 CE mainstream
  16 May: the first mention of the ship, in a letter King Hans writes 'in navi nostra Griffone', in our ship Griffon source
• 1495 CE mainstream
  June: on the way to Kalmar to bring Sweden back into the Kalmar Union, Gribshunden explodes, burns and sinks at anchor off Ronneby while the king is ashore source
• 1975 CE mainstream
  in the 1970s the local diving club finds the wreck 10 m deep north of Stora Ekon source
• 2002 CE mainstream
  the naval historian Ingvar Sjoblom tentatively identifies the wreck as Gribshunden; dendrochronology later shows its oak was felled in the Ardennes in the winter of 1482-1483 source
• 2015 CE mainstream
  August: the ship's carved figurehead, a sea monster with lion's ears devouring a man, is raised source

Where

56.1448° N, 15.2209° E

The point is Wikipedia's position for the wreck, 10 m deep north of the island of Stora Ekon off Ronneby, Sweden.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gribshunden
• https://doi.org/10.1163/16000390-09401052

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