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Thor Heyerdahl (named after Thor Heyerdahl), originally named Tinka, later Marga Henning, Silke, and Minnow, was built as a freight carrying motor ship with auxiliary sails at the shipyard Smit & Zoon in Westerbroek, Netherlands, in 1930. [1] Her original homeport being Hamburg, Germany, she was used for the next 50 years as a freighter.
Thor Heyerdahl, the expedition leader, in 2000. Kon-Tiki had a six-man crew, five of whom were Norwegian; Bengt Danielsson was Swedish. [8] A seventh member of the team handled administration from land but did not travel on the raft. Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002) was the expedition leader. He was also the author of the book of the expedition and ...
Heyerdahl was born in Larvik, [8] Norway, the son of master brewer Thor Heyerdahl (1869–1957) and his wife, Alison Lyng (1873–1965). As a young child, Heyerdahl showed a strong interest in zoology, inspired by his mother, who had a strong interest in Charles Darwin 's theory of evolution .
Tigris (boat) was a reed boat built and sailed in 1977 by Thor Heyerdahl and a crew to demonstrate the feasibility of ancient migration and trade between Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley Civilization. Tigris (1802 ship) was launched at Newcastle-on-Tyne as an East Indiaman.
Another boat in the museum is the Ra II, a vessel built of reeds according to Heyerdahl's perception of an ancient Egyptian seagoing boat. Heyerdahl sailed the Ra II from North Africa to the Caribbean after a previous attempt with the reed boat Ra failed. [3] Beneath the raft is a model of the whale shark that the crew encountered on the voyage ...
The boat's name is a play on the 1947 Kon-Tiki raft used to sail across the Pacific by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl, and its voyage roughly followed the same route. [4] On March 20, 2010, the sailing vessel set off from San Francisco, California to cross the Pacific Ocean with a crew of six. [5]
Built by the Spanish shipbuilders Navantia, in Ferrol, Thor Heyerdahl was the fifth and last of the Fridtjof Nansen class to be launched and then commissioned into the Royal Norwegian Navy. [1] Unlike the other members of her class, she was built with two 8-cell VLS modules instead of one.
The name of the vessels was derived from the Canarian deity Abora. The Abora I originated as a school project in Germany using locally grown Giant . All subsequent vessels were commissioned to boat builders from the Aymara nation living at Lake Titicaca in Bolivia; [2] the same boat builders worked already for Thor Heyerdahl.