Archaeologists are investigating the possibility Vikings used shortcuts over land to help them move warships and smaller boats around Scotland's west coast
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Archaeologist Cat Jarman, a Viking Age specialist, joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the Vikings
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Divers have discovered a 19th-century shipwreck off the Swedish coast loaded to the brim with champagne
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Portuguese ship with treasure found in Namibian desert
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Ernest Shackleton: Famed explorer's Endurance ship gets extra protection
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Explore Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton's famous Antarctic ship with new "Digital Twin"
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Explorer Ernest Shackleton's last ship found off Labrador's south coast, says expedition
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Blacksmiths are reconstructing a Viking ship to better understand the secrets of the navigation of Scandinavian warriors a thousand years ago
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Pigeons in the Arctic: Part III: Sir John Ross’s 1850-51 search for the lost Franklin Bay expedition
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This American Civil War submarine vanished for 136 years
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What happened to the Nautilus?
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Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh
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Packages seized by the Royal Navy from a Faroese cargo ship bound for Denmark during the Napoleonic Wars opened – previously hidden away in the National Archives
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Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue
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Wreckage likely belonging to a British submarine that sank during World War II was found off the coast of Norway
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A replica of a boat that carried Danish Jews to safety in Sweden anchors an exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC
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A wrong turn in fog off the California coast led to the largest peacetime disaster in American naval history
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Capturing the spirit of ancient seafaring, the reconstructed Viking sailboat "Saga Farmann" has successfully completed an epic journey from Norway's Tønsberg to Istanbul
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It's a Baltic problem – objects are vanishing from historic wrecks as sport divers and criminal gangs loot well-preserved sunken ships
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SS Baychimo: The unsinkable Arctic ghost ship
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Crippling Hitler's navy – the battle that knocked out 50% of the Kriegsmarine's destroyers in Norway
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'Hallowed space': Canadian divers pull 275 artifacts from 2022 excavation of Franklin ship
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The incredible Calypso: Jacques Cousteau's crazy exploration vessel
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Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered the long-lost sister ship of the 17th-century warship Vasa
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Götheborg of Sweden – The world's largest wooden sailing ship
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Warships of the Carthaginian Navy | Units of History
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The maintenance race
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Naval gladiator battles - What were they like?
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Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship, lost in 1915, is found in Antarctica
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UN's culture agency adds Nordic clinker boats to its list of traditions that represent the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
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An extraordinary 500-year-old shipwreck is rewriting the history of the age of discovery
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Were the Norse the first to settle the Azores? Seafarers may have come and gone from lush archipelago more than 1000 years ago
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Tolerance by Accident, Trust by Design
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Replica 18th century ship Götheborg of Sweden plans to re-sail the trading route from Sweden to China
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Battle of Drøbak Sound, 1940 - "Either I will be decorated or court martialed. Fire!"
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For the first time, researchers have identified the remains of a sailor from the doomed 1845 Franklin expedition of the fabled Northwest Passage
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A history of Somalia and local piracy: How do pirates exist in the 21st century?
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A sea story
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Brexit fishing row evokes memories of 'cod wars' with Iceland – four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready from 1st January to help protect UK fishing waters
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Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma machine
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This month Norwegian archaeologists hope to complete their excavation of a rare, buried longship at Gjellestad, an ancient site south-east of Oslo
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The scandalous decision to pickle Admiral Horatio Nelson in brandy
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Two-metre-long sturgeon, a species today near extinction, has been found preserved in the pantry of a 500-year-old Danish royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea
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Postcards from St Kilda arrive ten years later after washing up in Norway – archaeologist Ian McHardy built a waterproof replica of the mail boats a decade ago
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What made the Viking longship so terrifyingly effective?
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Archaeologists in Norway have begun the first excavation of a Viking longship in more than a century
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Underwater aircraft carriers: Imperial Japan’s secret weapon
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The real Lord of the Flies: What happened when six boys were shipwrecked for fifteen months
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The hunt for the German battleship Tirpitz, '42-44
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What's so special about Viking ships? | Jan Bill
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