shipbuilding technique

What Type Of Shipbuilding Did The Vikings Use?

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What Type Of Shipbuilding Did The Vikings Use? The secret of the Vikings’ ships lies in their unique construction. Viking longboats were ‘clinker’ built, a technique that used planks of wood that overlap at one edge and are riveted together. The ships were then made watertight by filling the spaces between the planks with tarred

What Type Of Shipbuilding Did Vikings Use?

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What Type Of Shipbuilding Did Vikings Use? All Viking ships are clinker built; the planks were overlapped at one edge and riveted together. In clinker shipbuilding you start build the outside first, and then put a frame inside it. The other style of wooden shipbuilding, used by the Mary Rose and the Victory, is called