Shipbuilding

Personal site devoted to learning about boat making, particular ly of Norse tradition during the Viking era.

Great place with a lot of links, and other resources listed, on how to tie knots

The Naval Museum has a long tradition stretching back to 1752, when Adolf Fredrik, the then King of Sweden decreed, that a Ship's Model Room be established in Karlskrona, and ever since the Museum has been charged with the collection and conservation of artefacts which would document the history and development of Sweden's Navy.

The Museum preserves the artifacts from the Mary Rose, which sank in 1545.

One of the illustriou s figures of the sixteenth century to visit North Carolina was Sir Richard Grenville, who came in June 1586. Like Sir Walter Ralegh, Drake was a Devon man. Born at Crowndale, near Tavistock, about 1543, he was the son of Edmund Drake, a sailor who became a yeoman farmer.

Piracy, the act of seizing a ship or its cargo from its lawful owners or their agents, has been endemic to maritime nations ever since man first set sail upon the high seas. By the time Elizabeth Tudor had ascended the throne in 1558, English piracy had entered into a Golden Age, as freebooter s roamed its coastal waters virtually unchalleng ed. With fat prizes, particular ly Spanish treasure ships to be found further out to sea, the plundering spread into the waters of the Atlantic and finally to the Caribbean, the well-sprin g of Spain' s ever increasing wealth. But as the violent, frequently profitable enterprise of piracy escalated into a state of near anarchy, English commerce began to suffer heavy losses in the waters closer to home.

Discussion of issues of interest to those involved or interested in Nautical households, particularly those organized like ships, within the SCA.

For almost a millennium , a modest wooden ship lay underwater off the coast of Serce Limani, Turkey, filled with evidence of trade and objects of daily life. The ship trafficked in both the Byzantine and Islamic worlds of its time. The ship is known as "the Glass Wreck" because its cargo included three metric tons of glass cullet, including broken Islamic vessels, and eighty pieces of intact glassware. In addition, it held glazed Islamic bowls, red-ware cooking vessels, copper cauldrons and buckets, wine amphoras, weapons, tools, jewelry, fishing gear, remnants of meals, coins, scales and weights, and more. This first volume of the complete site report introduces the discovery, the methods of its excavation , and the conservati on of its artifacts. Chapters cover the details of the ship, its contents, the probable personal possession s of the crew, and the picture of daily shipboard life that can be drawn from the discoverie s.

Ships of Discovery officially came into being as an underwater archaeology research institute in 1989, but our research into shipwrecks, shipbuilding techniques, exploration history, and artifact conservation began many years before when we were enthusiastic and determined graduate students.

No plans for vessels used in the Roanoke voyages are known to exist, but reasonably accurate inferences about those vessels can be drawn from contempora ry paintings, constructi on and performanc e records, woodcuts, and maritime treatises.

In a letter to Lord Burghley dated 29th November 1592, Sir John mentions "a shypp that was cast away about Alderney". Because of its location and period and because it was carrying military supplies (helmets, body armour, muskets, shot, hand grenades, etc.), it is believed that our wreck is the ship that was mentioned in the dispatches to the Queen's Chief Minister.

The Corsairium is a guild dedicated to the research, development and teaching of the nautical aspects of history and how it relates to the SCA. This guild operates within the confines of the SCA time period focusing on privateer activities.