Simon Ekström is Professor in Ethnology at Stockholm University, Sweden. Amongst his research interests are maritime heritage and museums, materiality and death, and human relations to the sea. Currently, he is working on a project depicting the use and circulation of restored guns from the age of the sailing fleet.Niklas Eriksson is Associate Professor in Archaeology at Stockholm University. He specialises in Maritime Archaeology in widest sense – theories, methods, and materials – and his books include Urbanism under Sail (2014), Riksäpplet (2017), and Stormaktsskärgård (2022).Anna Maria Forssberg is a historian and Associate Professor working as a researcher at the Vasa Museum. She specialises in European warfare and war propaganda in the seventeenth century. She is currently doing research on the people of Vasa and the everyday life of naval families in early modern Sweden. Forssberg takes a special interest in material culture and museum collections as sources of knowledge.Leos Müller is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Maritime Studies at Stockholm University. He specialises in global and maritime history and long-term history of neutrality. His latest publications include Sveriges första globala århundrade (2008) and Neutrality in World History: Themes in World History (2009).

• 1. Introduction: Material Culture in the Swedish Navy, c. 1450–1850 (Simon Ekström, Niklas Eriksson, Anna Maria Forssberg, and Leos Müller) 2. The Introduction of Carvel Shipbuilding in Sixteenth-century Sweden: A History Told from Caulking Laths (Niklas Eriksson) 3. Supplying Fighting Power: Food Chains in the Swedish Navy 1563–65 (Ingvar Sjöblom) 4. Upplands Leijonet 1572–92: A Forgotten Warship in the Swedish Royal Navy (Dan Johansson) 5. Casks and Boxes: What the Personal Belongings on Vasa can tell us about Life in the Navy in the Seventeenth Century (Anna Maria Forssberg and Fred Hocker) 6. The Wrecks in Djupasund: Identifying Early Modern Warships in Swedish Waters − Problems, Challenges, and Solutions (Patrik Höglund and Jim Hansson) 7. An Archaeological Study of an Underwater Cannon Site in the Sea Fortress Suomenlinna, the Baltic Sea (Minna Koivikko, Tuomas Aakala, Sami Brchisky, David Cleasby, Kari Hyttinen, Jesse J. Jokinen, Xavier Le Rudulier, and Liisa Näsänen) 8. The Swedish Navy beyond Skagerrak: Ships’ Careers in Global History, c. 1600–1800 (Leos Müller) 9. Stories of Lost and Found: Recovered Ships’ Guns as Enduring Material Artifacts (Simon Ekström) 10. Admirals, Ships and Burials: The Materiality of a Nineteenth-century Shipwood Casket (Mirja Arnshav) 11. The Swedish Navy in the Age of Sail: “Elite-Objects” in the Exhibitions of the Swedish Naval Museum in 1997 (Andreas Linderoth)