More about the Swedish ship Äpplet

I posted the other day in A sister ship to the Vasa about the discovery ad identification of the seventeenth century Swedish naval vessel the Äpplet.

Live Science now has an article about the discovery which gives more about the history of the ship and its place in the history and development of the Swedish navy in the mid-seventeenth century.

It occurs to me that as its sister ships were names Kronang (the Crown) and the Scepter that the Äpplet presumably should be translated not literally as The Apple but as The Orb - the Golden Apple.

The article can be seen at Wreck of 17th-century warship discovered in Sweden