Another Shipwreck washed up.

[Stuart Little]

A section of a wooden ship has been washed up on a beach on Orkney, UK.






Ref: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/Crg447y13nzo

 

[Jimsky]

A section of a wooden ship has been washed up on a beach on Orkney, UK.

Ref: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/Crg447y13nzo

Stuart, the link below doesn't work. Can you check, please?

 

[Corsair]

Try this link.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crg447y13nzo

 

[Jimsky]

Try this link.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crg447y13nzo

Thank you, Jeff.

 

[Stuart Little]

Stuart, the ling below doesn't work. Can you check, please?

I guess that's the UK link. Thanks for adding the correct one, me hearties!

 

[Don Case]

That oval treenail intrigues me. Anyone have any idea what that may be for. It seems like a lot of work to make an oval hole when a round one would do for anything I can think of.
Unless it's just camera distortion.

 

[tomazona]

A tribute to the workmanship of the shipwrights prowess that it survived in the condition found....

 

[Maarten]

@dockattner Paul it looks like a piece of your treenailed hull washed ashore in the UK

 

[dockattner]

Proof that my work can withstand the ravages of sea and time...

 

[Maarten]

Proof that my work can withstand the ravages of sea and time...

No doubt about that.

 

[Stuart Little]

That oval treenail intrigues me. Anyone have any idea what that may be for. It seems like a lot of work to make an oval hole when a round one would do for anything I can think of.
Unless it's just camera distortion.

Could be 'wear & tear' by the sea, on, what was a bitt or cleat?

 

[Ab Hoving]

That oval treenail intrigues me. Anyone have any idea what that may be for. It seems like a lot of work to make an oval hole when a round one would do for anything I can think of.
Unless it's just camera distortion.

Like almost every piece of wood, dowels shrink, especially in one direction. The Scandinavians with their Viking ships carefully used the grain of the wood when inserting their dowels, knowing that there was a chance their round dowels would end up oval...

 

[Steef66]

interesting the hull planks where fit straight to each other.

 

[Ab Hoving]

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[Steef66]

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[Ab Hoving]

Ah, you mean the butts of the planking. They are positively not Dutch , as I explained to the archeaologist who wanted information about this wreck piece.

 

[Steef66]

The nailing is also to straight to be Dutch

 

[Spars]

A section of a wooden ship has been washed up on a beach on Orkney, UK.

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Ref: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/Crg447y13nzo

Appreciate the pictures. Any effort to identify the age of the timbers?

 

[Spars]

That oval treenail intrigues me. Anyone have any idea what that may be for. It seems like a lot of work to make an oval hole when a round one would do for anything I can think of.
Unless it's just camera distortion.

I think the trenails aka trunnels, are ovoid in shape swell to create the firmest grip on the wood once it is wet.

 

[Bemused]

That oval treenail intrigues me. Anyone have any idea what that may be for. It seems like a lot of work to make an oval hole when a round one would do for anything I can think of.
Unless it's just camera distortion.

There are no oval tunnels.
I live near the site and had a good look at it.