HMS Spica

HMS Spica is a ship in Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County. HMS Spica is situated nearby to SS Sankt Erik, as well as near Maritime Museum, Stockholm.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Stockholm Central Station and Vasa Museum.

Stockholm Central Station

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Stockholm Central Station, Stockholms centralstation, is Sweden's busiest rail station, in the Norrmalm district of Stockholm. It is directly connected to the Cityterminalen bus station, the Stockholm City commuter train station and the T-Centralen metro station, with a tram stop.

Vasa Museum

Museum

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The Vasa Museum is a maritime museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Located on the island of Djurgården, the museum displays the only almost fully intact 17th-century ship that has ever been salvaged, the 64-gun warship Vasa that sank on her maiden voyage in 1628. Vasa Museum is situated 140 metres northeast of HMS Spica.

SS Sankt Erik

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SS Sankt Erik is an icebreaker and museum ship attached to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. She was launched in 1915 as Isbrytaren II and was a conventionally-built Baltic icebreaker with a strengthened bow shaped to be lifted up onto the ice to crush it and a forward-facing screw to push water and crushed ice along the side of the hull.