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The ship in Green Bay, Wisconsin, the westernmost point of its 2016 expedition Figurehead of Draken Harald Hårfagre. The ship left its home port of Haugesund, Norway on 26 April 2016, bound for Newfoundland, the aim being to explore and retrace the first transatlantic crossing and the Viking discovery of the New World.
Figurehead on a model of the French ship Océan A figurehead is a carved wooden decoration found at the bow of ships , generally of a design related to the name or role of a ship. They were predominant between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and modern ships' badges fulfil a similar role.
The Oseberg ship (Norwegian: Osebergskipet) is a well-preserved Viking ship discovered in a large burial mound at the Oseberg farm near Tønsberg in Vestfold county, Norway. This ship is commonly acknowledged to be among the finest artifacts to have survived from the Viking Age .
Roskilde 6 : found during the expansion of the Viking Ship Museum and the longest known Viking ship at about 37 m (121 ft) Have been regarded as Viking ships, but from before or after the Viking Age: Salme ships: from 700 to 750 AD, before the Viking Age; Lapuri ship : from 1250 to 1300 AD, after the Viking Age
A 1925 US 5c Postage Stamp featuring the Viking, for the Norse-American Centennial. Viking is a Viking ship replica. It is an exact replica of the Gokstad ship recovered from Gokstadhaugen, a Viking Age burial mound in Sandefjord, Norway in 1880. Viking was featured at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. [1]
The Viking at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893. Viking ship replicas are one of the more common types of ship replica. Viking, the first Viking ship replica, was built by the Rødsverven shipyard in Sandefjord, Norway. In 1893 it sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to Chicago in the United States for the World's Columbian Exposition.