![]() ![]() Like all clinker built ships, the Nydam had a wooden frame inserted to strengthen the hull after the skin was built. This “Nydam” ship was likely the type the Saxons used to reach Britain, but was not yet equipped with a sail. The first true clinker built ship with overlapping planks held with iron nails and powered by actual oars using oarlocks, is an 82 foot vessel dated to 350AD. The earliest evidence of plank built ships is the remains of a 50 foot boat built circa 350BC using sewn planks and a central keel. More advanced vessels, like the Irish curragh, often had a wooden frame and a hide covered wicker hull. Such craft were in widespread use by northern European cultures as far back as 2000BC based on primitive rock scratchings. ![]() ![]() In any event, the clinker design was derived from the construction of earlier skin boats in which the hides had to be overlapped to be made water tight. Lapstrake is perhaps a more accurate term which literally means “over-lapping planks”. The early medieval ships were clinker built a term which is bastardized from “clencher” and refers to the clenching of nails, a technique for securing planks. ![]()
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