Kronan's crew 7 crewmates in 23andme format

The Royal man-of-war “Kronan” was, when built, the biggest, most heavily armed vessel of the Swedish navy and only outsized by two other ships in the world. Well adorned and intended to impress and inspire awe, it was destined to be the Swedish navy's new flagship.The ship sank in 1676, after only four years of service, off the coast of Öland, on its way to engage the combined Danish and Dutch navy. Most of the crew drowned, and expensive equipment, such as cannons of varying sizes and weights, and coins, were lost in the shipwreck. The basic crew consisted of 500 seamen and 300 soldiers; on this journey, there were 50 additional infantrymen. According to the historical records, out of a crew of 850 men, only 42 are known to have survived. More than 180 men washed ashore in the days that followed the catastrophe, meaning that approximately 600 men were left in the depth of the sea. The crew of approximately 850 men was a complete miniature society, almost the size of a medium-sized Swedish town. As a result, the Kronan crew represents a cross-section of the contemporary male population in the country. The age varies from twelve-year-old ship boys to sixty-year-old mates. The social status of the men spanned from the lowest to the highest. According to historical records, the soldiers belonged to the infantry regiment of Västerbotten in the north of Sweden, whereas the sailors were recruited from Öland, Åland and Stockholm in eastern Sweden. Only 110 casualties are known by name and occupation.

For this video, I gathered the raw DNA of 7 crew mates from the Knonan ship. The 7 genomes resemble Swedes with PCA based ethnicity calculators and 4 out of 7 carry Y lineage I1. All the 7 samples are male. I ran the samples through my trait predictor tool for DNA analysis.