Without this crucial advance in ship technology, the Vikings would never have become a dominant force in medieval warfare, politics, and trade. The drekar, or dragon-headed longships, were ...

Rye provided half of the ships and mariners of the medieval Cinque Ports and was once an important member of the Cinque Ports confederation. Most famously, however, Rye was once a pirate port in ...

The Newport Medieval Ship is the largest and best preserved clinker built medieval merchant vessel ever recovered in the United Kingdom. It was found during the construction of the Riverfront ...

The large ship measures about 115 feet long and 33 feet wide with a typical mast in the center. But the medieval ship’s most unique feature wasn’t its size or layout. It was its building ...