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The Viking shipbuilders had no written diagrams or standard written design plan. The shipbuilder pictured the longship before its construction, based on previous builds, and the ship was then built from the keel up. The keel and stems were made first. The shape of the stem was based on segments of circles of varying sizes.
The longboat from Vasa. Whilst differing from many longboat designs (this example is double ended, when other longboats had a transom stern) the picture shows the windlass amidships for raising an anchor. Other heavy weights carried by a longboat included guns - either as armament for the boat or simply to transport to or from the ship.
A modern replica of a Viking ship. This ship is of the snekkja longship type.. Viking ships were marine vessels of unique structure, used in Scandinavia from the Viking Age throughout the Middle Ages.
In the age of sail, a ship carried a variety of boats of various sizes and for different purposes.In the navies they were: (1) the launch, or long-boat, the largest of all rowboats on board, which was of full, flat, and high built; (2) the barge, the next in size, which was employed for carrying commanding officers, with ten or twelve oars (3) the pinnace, which was used for transporting ...
A Longboat with a cabin of two berths or one berth and a galley bench. Unlike the open Longboat and other drascombes a boom was fitted to the mainsail . Designed to appeal more to private buyers than the open version, the Cruiser Longboat was introduced and sold side by side with the standard open boat.
Garboard strakes and related near-keel members Diagram of typical modern metal-hulled ship’s exterior plating, with a single strake highlighted in red. On a vessel's hull, a strake is a longitudinal course of planking or plating which runs from the boat's stempost (at the bows) to the sternpost or transom (at the rear).
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Diagram of clinker construction in the first half of the 20th century. Clinker construction is a shell-first technique (in contrast to the frame-based nature of carvel). The construction sequence begins with the joining of the keel, stem and sternpost (or transom) and setting these in place in the build area. Thereafter, the shape of the hull ...