[Regia-NA] Alfred's ships

[marfield66 at sympatico.ca]

A book on Alfred the Great I read 20 or so years ago authored by two profs from Cambridge University mentioned that Alfred fashioned his ship''s design between the viking and frankish style and made them twice as large with a higher for and aft.
Cheers
Martin F
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> From: jim green <aethelwulf2000 at yahoo.com>
> Date: 2006/10/24 Tue PM 06:29:06 EST
> To: list-regia-na at lig.net
> Subject: [Regia-NA] Alfred's ships
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> As I understand what I have read , Alfred's ships were built higher than the expected Norse opposition ships. If , I do mean if , they followed more or less the length, beam ect ratios ,then they would also be longer , wider and deeper. That would indeed make them less manuerverable.It would probably add more crew and make them much more expensive. If on the other hand he simply added strakes then he might only lose more leeway in a good wind. We simply don't know and I would like to. Meanwhile as possible I play with Blackbird , the faering another group I am a member of built.  Jim
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