Morgawr: an experimental Bronze Age-type sewn-plank craft based on the Ferriby boats

Photographs and a link to a video showing the construction and launch of "Morgawr" can also be found in ORE: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/14703This paper reports on the construction of a full-scale Bronze Age-type sewn-plank boat based on the Ferriby boats. The boat, which was named Morgawr, was constructed in the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth, England, during 2012 and the first months of 2013, as part of a larger exhibition in the museum. This paper provides the background and context of the project, describes the process of building the craft, and reflects in particular on differences between Morgawr and the ‘hypothetical reconstruction of a complete sewn-plank boat’ published in 1990 by Ted Wright and John Coates which formed the basis for this project.Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC

Skibe på havbunden

Forfatteren blev kendt af offentligheden som medudgraver af de fem danske vikingeskibe i Roskildefjord og er nu en internationalt anerkendt kapacitet med hensyn til udgravning af vrag under vand

Med Nordisk Maritimhistorisk Arbejdsgruppe hos Christian Madsen

Både forfatteren og Christian Nielsen var medlemmer af den »Nordiske maritimhistoriske arbejdsgruppe«, der var aktiv med feltarbejde i årene 1964-67. Artiklen giver indtryk af det udbytterige feltarbejde hos bådebygger Christian Madsen, Lynæs, i sommeren 1964

Fulton aus Marstal: ein dänischer Schoner in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart

Since the late 1960s, concerted efforts have been made in Denmark to preserve a small selection of characteristic Nordic wooden vessels of the sailing era for posterity. Of epochal significance within this context have been the endeavours of the National Museum in Copenhagen/Roskilde with regard to the FULTON, a three-masted schooner built in Marstal in 1915 and acquired by the museum in 1970. The history of the FULTON is divided into three sections: the period of the ship’s operation under sail as a cargo vessel on the North Atlantic from 1915 to 1923, then on the Baltic by sail and engine until 1969, and since 1970 as a sailing museum ship in Danish waters with a crew of Danish youth. The present article reports on the ship’s history and on the fates of several of the persons involved with her beginnings and early phase. The story of the FULTON serves as an example of how the circumstances of shipping in the past can by conveyed to the young generation of the present, and how the members of this generation can thus develop prospects for their own futures

Cog-kogge-kaag, træk af en frisisk skibstypes historie

Spørgsmålet om, hvem der var aktive i såvel handlens som skibsbyggeriets udvikling i vikingetiden, er blevet stærkt diskuteret blandt historikere og arkæologer. Forskningen er i de senere år gået i retning af at reducere den frisiske indflydelse herpå i forhold til tidligere forskeres opfattelse af friserne som grundlæggere af den „friserhandel", der bl. a. fører til opbygning af Nordens første byer. Også for hansetidens storskib — koggen — har man villet udelukke et frisisk forbillede. Museumsinspektør, civilingeniør Ole Crumlin-Pedersen, der er Handels- og Søfartsmuseets skibstekniske konsulent, tegner i denne artikel nogle vigtige linier i udviklingen af en af skibsbygningens grundformer — den fladbundede kogge — og kan på grundlag heraf tilføre den stående diskussion væsentlige vidnesbyrd orn frisisk sejlads i nordiske farvande i århundrederne før vikingetid og om den frisiske grundform, hvoraf hansekoggen opstår