Viking announced the delivery of its latest Longship, Viking Nerthus, which was presented this morning at Meyer’s Neptun ...

They then added crossbeams to provide a deck and rowing benches ... during which the Norse perfected longship design, coincides with the eruption of seaborne Viking raids on the monasteries ...

Viking announced it has taken delivery of the Viking Nerthus, the company’s newest Viking Longship. The delivery took place Tuesday morning ...

In 1903, a monumental find was made when a Viking longship was unraveled in a burial ... "We don't yet know if this was a rowing or sailing ship. Others, like the Gokstad and Tune ships, combined ...

As well as being long, Viking longships were shallow. Most had a maximum draught (the depth a boat sinks under the water) of 0.5-1 meter. This meant that they could sail into shallows and down ...