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The Salme ships are two clinker-built ships of Scandinavian origin discovered in 2008 and 2010 near the village of Salme on the island of Saaremaa, Estonia.Both ships were used for ship burials here around AD 700–750 in the Nordic Iron Age and contained the remains of 41 warriors killed in battle, as well as 6 dogs, 2 hunting hawks and numerous weapons and other artifacts.
Prior to the administrative reform of Estonian municipalities in 2017, the village was the administrative center of Salme Parish. The Salme shipfind consisted of two clinker-built ships discovered in Salme, one with the remains of seven persons found in autumn 2008, and another with 33 in 2010. [2] Salme school. As of 2021, the population of ...
In 2008–2010, the ship burial of two ships were discovered in Salme, Estonia, the Salme ships. Remains from at least 42 individuals were discovered in the two ships. [6] Most of them belonged to 30–40 years old males who had been killed in battle.
This is a list of active Estonian Navy ships. In total there are 8 commissioned ships in the navy. [ 1 ] In 2023 four of the larger Police and Border Guard patrol vessels were merged with the Estonian Navy to improve coastal patrol capabilities.
The ship burials at Salme that were excavated in 2011 and 2013, and have been dated to circa 750 AD, have been interpreted as being of men who had travelled to Saaremaa from Sweden, based on all weapons and other artefacts being of typically Swedish types, but excavations of a cult site at Viidumäe on Saaremaa (20 km from Salme), beginning in ...
List of Estonian Navy ships is a comprehensive listing of all ships that have been in service to the Estonian Navy. [1] [2] [3] 1918–1940. Destroyers.
Location (island in brackets) Sea area Manager Port services Abaja Abaja, Saaremaa Parish (Saaremaa) Baltic Sea MTÜ Abaja Puhkeala none Admirali Hõbesalu, Lääneranna Parish Väinameri OÜ Skandia Arendus none Ahoi Nasva, Saaremaa Parish (Saaremaa) Nasva river none Alajõe Alajõe, Alutaguse Parish Lake Peipus Peipsi Trade LTD OÜ none
By the 8th century, the Swedes, by far the most advanced of the North Germanic peoples, had established colonial settlements in modern Estonia, Latvia and the southern shores of Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega in present-day Russia. [67] [68] The settlement of Grobiņa in Latvia and the Salme ships of Saaremaa, Estonia