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Kalmar Nyckel, the Glossary

Key of Kalmar was a Swedish ship built by the Dutch famed for carrying Swedish settlers to North America in 1638, to establish the colony of New Sweden.^[1]

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American Swedish Historical Museum

The American Swedish Historical Museum is the oldest Swedish-American museum in the United States.

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Auxiliary ship

An auxiliary ship is a naval ship designed to support combatant ships and other naval operations.

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Beam (nautical)

The beam of a ship is its width at its widest point.

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Benjamin Lees

Benjamin Lees (January 8, 1924 – May 31, 2010) was an American composer of classical music.

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A boatswain, bo's'n, bos'n, or bosun, also known as a deck boss, or a qualified member of the deck department, is the most senior rate of the deck department and is responsible for the components of a ship's hull.

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Chartered company

A chartered company is an association with investors or shareholders that is incorporated and granted rights (often exclusive rights) by royal charter (or similar instrument of government) for the purpose of trade, exploration, or colonization, or a combination of these.

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Chesapeake Bay

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States.

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Chief mate

A chief mate (C/M) or chief officer, usually also synonymous with the first mate or first officer, is a licensed mariner and head of the deck department of a merchant ship.

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Christina River

The Christina River is a tributary of the Delaware River, approximately 35 miles (56 km) long, in northern Delaware. Kalmar Nyckel and Christina River are Wilmington Riverfront.

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Delaware

Delaware is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern region of the United States.

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Displacement (fluid)

In fluid mechanics, displacement occurs when an object is largely immersed in a fluid, pushing it out of the way and taking its place.

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Draft (hull)

The draft or draught of a ship is a determined depth of the vessel below the waterline, measured vertically to its hull's lowest—its propellers, or keel, or other reference point.

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East Indiaman

East Indiaman was a general name for any sailing ship operating under charter or licence to any of the East India trading companies of the major European trading powers of the 17th through the 19th centuries.

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Figurehead (object)

A figurehead is a carved wooden decoration found at the bow of ships, generally of a design related to the name or role of a ship.

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First Anglo-Dutch War

The First Anglo-Dutch War, or First Dutch War, was a naval conflict between the Commonwealth of England and the Dutch Republic. Kalmar Nyckel and First Anglo-Dutch War are Anglo-Dutch Wars.

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Fogel Grip

Fogel Grip (Bird Griffin, Swedish: Fågel Grip) was a Swedish sailing ship originally built in the Netherlands in the early 17th century. Kalmar Nyckel and Fogel Grip are 17th century in Sweden, Individual sailing vessels, pinnaces, ships built in the Netherlands, Shipwrecks in the North Sea and Wilmington Riverfront.

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Fort Christina

Fort Christina, also called Fort Altena, was the first Swedish settlement in North America and the principal settlement of the New Sweden colony. Kalmar Nyckel and Fort Christina are Wilmington Riverfront.

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Full-rigged pinnace

The full-rigged pinnace was the larger of two types of vessel called a pinnace in use from the sixteenth century. Kalmar Nyckel and full-rigged pinnace are pinnaces.

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Full-rigged ship

A full-rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a sailing vessel with a sail plan of three or more masts, all of them square-rigged.

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Götheborg (ship)

Götheborg of Sweden is a sailing replica of the Swedish East Indiaman Götheborg I, launched in 1738 (not to be confused with the larger Götheborg II built some decades later). Kalmar Nyckel and Götheborg (ship) are Individual sailing vessels and replica ships.

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Gothenburg

Gothenburg (abbreviated Gbg; Göteborg) is the capital of Västra Götaland County in Sweden.

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Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.

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Great power

A great power is a sovereign state that is recognized as having the ability and expertise to exert its influence on a global scale.

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Jacob Hägg

Jacob Hägg (22 July 1839 – 15 April 1931) was a Swedish naval officer and marine artist.

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Kalmar

Kalmar is a city in the southeast of Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea.

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Kalmar Castle

Kalmar Castle (Kalmar slott) is a castle in the city Kalmar in the province of Småland in Sweden.

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Maritime call sign

Maritime call signs are call signs assigned as unique identifiers to ships and boats.

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Måns Andersson

Måns Andersson (born 1620 Undenas, Vastra-Gotaland, Sweden. Died 4 December 1679 Mountsfield Plantation, Baltimore, Cecil County Maryland), was a pioneer in the Swedish colony of New Sweden.

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Melanoma

Melanoma is the most dangerous type of skin cancer; it develops from the melanin-producing cells known as melanocytes.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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New Sweden

New Sweden (Nya Sverige) was a colony of the Swedish Empire along the lower reaches of the Delaware River between 1638 and 1655 in present-day Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in the United States. Kalmar Nyckel and New Sweden are 17th century in Sweden and Economic history of Sweden.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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North Sea

The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

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Peter Minuit

Peter Minuit (also Pierre Minuit (french version), or Peter Minnewit (dutch version)) (between 1580 and 1585 – August 5, 1638) was a walloon (then part of the Spanish Netherlands) merchant born in Wesel, in present-day northwestern Germany.

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Placeholder name

Placeholder names are intentionally overly generic and ambiguous terms referring to things, places, or people, the names of which or of whom do not actually exist; are temporarily forgotten, or are unimportant; or in order to avoid stigmatization, or because they are unknowable or unpredictable given the context of their discussion; or to deliberately expunge direct use of the name.

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Reorus Torkillus

Reorus Torkillus (1608–1643) was priest of the Church of Sweden and the first Lutheran clergyman to settle in what would become the United States.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Ship replica

A ship replica is a reconstruction of a no longer existing ship. Kalmar Nyckel and ship replica are replica ships.

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Ship's cat

The ship's cat has been a common feature on many trading, exploration, and naval ships dating to ancient times.

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Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz

The Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz (German State Philharmonic of Rhineland-Palatinate) is a German orchestra based in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, in Ludwigshafen am Rhein..

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Sveriges Television

Sveriges Television AB ("Sweden's Television Stock Company"), shortened to SVT, is the Swedish national public television broadcaster, funded by a public service tax on personal income set by the Riksdag (national parliament).

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Swedish colonies in the Americas

Sweden established colonies in the Americas in the mid-17th century, including the colony of New Sweden (1638–1655) on the Delaware River in what is now Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, as well as two possessions in the Caribbean during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Swedish Empire

The Swedish Empire (stormaktstiden, "the Era as a Great Power") was the period in Swedish history spanning much of the 17th and early 18th centuries during which Sweden became a European great power that exercised territorial control over much of the Baltic region. Kalmar Nyckel and Swedish Empire are 17th century in Sweden.

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Swedish Navy

The Swedish Navy (Svenska marinen) is the maritime service branch of the Swedish Armed Forces.

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Swivel gun

A swivel gun (or simply swivel) is a small cannon mounted on a swiveling stand or fork which allows a very wide arc of movement.

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Thomas C. Gillmer

Thomas C. Gillmer (1911–2009) was a naval architect and the author of books about modern and historical naval architecture.

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Ton

Ton is any of several units of measure of mass, volume or force.

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Waterline length

A vessel's length at the waterline (abbreviated to L.W.L) is the length of a ship or boat at the level where it sits in the water (the waterline).

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Wilmington, Delaware

Wilmington (Lenape: Paxahakink / Pakehakink) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmar_Nyckel

Kalmar Nyckel, the Glossary

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See also

1620s ships

17th century in Sweden

Age of Discovery ships

Age of Sail naval ships of Sweden

Age of Sail naval ships of the Dutch Republic

Anglo-Dutch Wars

Auxiliary ships of the Swedish Navy

Economic history of Sweden

Kalmar County

Maritime incidents in 1652

Pinnaces

Sailboat type designs by Thomas C. Gillmer

Symbols of Delaware

Wilmington Riverfront

References