The reason(s) she sank was that she was top heavy, thus unstable, and the King of Sweden at the time was a little too eager to dispatch her as a flag ship into the Polish/Lithuanian war so there were no time to give her enough ballast, and thus she sank 1400 yds into the maiden voyage when encountering winds stronger than a breeze
It's worse than that. She was built by some of the most skilled ship builders of her time but when the king, halfway through construction said he wanted more guns and another deck no one dared argue for fear of their heads. Everyone involved knew she was unstable but the king ignored or threatened anyone who tried to warn him.
What’s funny is you assume that ships long ago where HUGE like football field big. But truth was a lot of them was about the size of a fishing boat.
In Corpus Christi in Texas they have a exact replica of the La Nina from Columbus 3 ships. It is tiny lol I asked them if they scaled it down they said they get asked that a lot and no they didn’t. In fact when they first was making it they thought they made it wrong because how small it was coming out.
I just looked it up and sadly they demolished it. Apparently it sunk already once in 2017 and in 2019 when it sunk again they decided to trash it. Because it was to much money to up keep.
In Corpus Christi in Texas they have a exact replica of the La Nina from Columbus 3 ships. It is tiny lol I asked them if they scaled it down they said they get asked that a lot and no they didn’t. In fact when they first was making it they thought they made it wrong because how small it was coming out.
I just looked it up and sadly they demolished it. Apparently it sunk already once in 2017 and in 2019 when it sunk again they decided to trash it. Because it was to much money to up keep.