Jens Auer, maritime archaeologist and project leader, “and it was buried under sand and silt down through the centuries.” He went on, “It was a heavy, load-bearing cargo ship, of Nordic design, built with great care and durability…with overlapping pine planks, clinker-style, with a beautiful curved construction…made during a relatively peaceful period of time, it very likely carried cargoes such as timber, stones, or even heavy shipments of beer.” “It’s a descendent of Viking ships ,” said Dr. (Massimiliano Ditta) Viking Shipwreck Well Preserved
It had an estimated crew size of 8-12 men.ĭiagram of Viking shipwreck. 3D scanning would later show that it had been constructed entirely with axes and adzes, and dendrochronology revealed that the ship’s oak and pine timbers were from Western Sweden. Measuring approximately 78.7 feet (24 meters) long by 13 feet (4 meters) wide, the large open-decked ship dates back to 1188 AD. (Landesamt für Kultur und Denkmalpflege Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) Perfectly preserved Viking shipwrecks discovered. The Baltic Sea water and silt of the harbor had almost perfectly preserved the wreck’s timbers, due to the harbor’s seafloor environment being anaerobic, with very low alkalinity, almost no bacteria or rot, and no woodworms. One of them, the last to be discovered, was resting in only 9.8 feet (3 meters) of water. During the extension of the seaport of Wismar in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, archaeologists discovered a number of shipwrecks.
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