US EditionWorld’s Largest Medieval Cog Discovered Off Copenhagen
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The Viking Ship Museum in Denmark announced that the largest and most advanced medieval cargo ship ever found has been discovered in the Oresund Strait.
The cusp of the naval engineering of the Middle Ages were coca (cog), huge and robust merchant ships, very popular in the Baltic Sea, with a flat bottom hull, a single square sail and a large cargo capacity that allowed them to be used both for trade and for war.Continue reading...
World’s largest late medieval cog discovered sunken in the Øresund Strait
For centuries, the seabed of the Sound—the narrow strait separating Denmark and Sweden—had been hiding an exceptional witness to medieval commerce. Maritime archaeologists from the Viking Ship Museum in Denmark have now brought to light the remains of the world’s largest known cog, a medieval cargo ship whose unparalleled size and preservation are transforming knowledge […]
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