They have even managed to salvage & reconstruct the faces of few of these seamen. It was incredible learning experience about medieval seafaring. Highly recommend, and it is bang next to the Gamle Stan (the old city seen in almost all stock photos of Stockholm).
They are very similar to Vasa but are built slightly smaller in height and about a foot greater in width. The Apple did have the same large sized cannons in the first deck, which was one of the major fault in the design of Vasa. The other two sister ships had smaller cannons on the first deck in order to avoid this problem.
for "ice", read "prank"
The Vasa is a textbook case of vanity stakeholders demanding deep last minute changes in complex engineered systems. It wasn't exactly rushed into production, the changes were rushed, not the entire thing.
Prime example of 'theory vs. practice'.