seen from Türkiye
seen from Brazil
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Türkiye
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from Kenya
seen from Germany
seen from Türkiye
seen from China
seen from Malaysia
seen from Germany
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Bulgaria
seen from United States
New excavations have coaxed more secrets from Gribshunden, the flagship of the Danish-Norwegian King Hans which mysteriously sank in 1495 of
Absolutely fascinating. A wealth of new information about the period and ships and naval warfare.
In the frigid Baltic Sea, archaeologists probing the surprisingly well-preserved remains of a revolutionary warship are seeing the era in a
What a spectacular find =^O
Gribshunden
The Gribshunden is the world's best preserved example of a new type of ship that would later evolve into the great known northern European warships such as the Mary Rose (1545), Mars (1564), Vasa (1628) and Crown (1676).
The Danish ship "Gribshunden", anno 1495, by Vänehem Illustrations
She is a contemporaneous ship with Christopher Columbus' flagship of 1492, the Santa Maria, albeit larger. The ship's design also has much in common with the well-known Catalan model, the Mataró model, from the mid-15th century. And it is likely that she was a Karack. The wreck lies at a depth of almost 10 metres on the north side of the island of Stora Ekön and was discovered in 1970 by the Doppingarna diving club from Ronneby.
Siteplan with the remains of the Gribshunden (x)
The wreck is not in particularly good condition, however, the result was a length of about 35 metres and a width of 12 metres. And amazing finds have been made.
The 9 gun carriages, it is not known how many guns she had on board. (x)
Among them, 9 breechloading gun carriages, wooden vessels, crockery shards, glass, buttons, leather, metal, cherry pits and hazelnuts. Even bricks, flint, the dragon-like shaped figurehead, corroded iron and slaked lime from a barrel were found.
Bronze chainmail and a wooden jug (x)
The excavated osteological material (bone material) consisted mainly of crushed cattle bones, which were probably packed in the remains of the vessels that were also found. Crossbow arrows and remains of a bronze chainmail were also recovered from the ground. A curious find was a miniature gun carriage.
The dragon shaped figurehead (x)
During this archaeological work, the wreck was identified from written sources as the ship Griffen (or Griffen-Hund), built by the Danish King Hans, which sank at this site in 1495 after a fire on board the ship while it was at anchor.
Spectacular discoveries during excavation of unique flagship Gribshunden
For three weeks the royal warship Gribshunden (1495) has been excavated on the seabed of the Baltic Sea off the coast of southern Sweden. Among others things, a very early firearm—one of the earliest to be found on a ship anywhere in the world—as well as a beautifully formed drinking tankard, with a crown-like engraving, have been found.
Gribshunden is considered the world's best-preserved ship of the kind which Christopher Columbus, among others, used for his expeditions to America. This makes the ship's construction a very important focus for the international team of 40 researchers.
"We have had a fantastic team from 10 different countries which has managed to accomplish what we set out to achieve with this year's excavations—to both salvage finds and to advance with the study of the ship's construction," says Brendan Foley, marine archaeologist at Lund University. Read more.
In the frigid Baltic Sea, archaeologists probing the surprisingly well-preserved remains of a revolutionary warship are seeing the era in a
Incredible and incredibly important find. The only boat of its type remaining.
Figurehead in shape of a sea monster from the Gribshunden a maybe caravel of the 15th century. (c) Blekinge Museum
The Gribshunden was the Flagship of King Hans of Danemark. For unknown reasons, the ship caught fire and sank 1495 off Ronneby, Sweden. Many men were killed but not the king, who witnessed the horrific demise of his flagship and its crew from a nearby boat.
The figurehead is 3,4m long and weighs 300 kilos
Researchers can now reveal what the Danish King Hans had planned to offer when laying claim to the Swedish throne in 1495: A two-meter-long Atlantic sturgeon. The well-preserved fish remains were found in a wreck on the bottom of the Baltic Sea last year, and species identification was made possible through DNA analysis.
I find these well-preserved shipwrecks unbelievably cool. Like looking into the past, without any distortion from the present.
Archaeology breakthrough as incredible secrets of royal shipwreck unearthed
Archaeologists are uncovering the mysteries of a 15th-century royal warship believed to have sunk after an explosion in 1495. The Gribshunden, belonging to King Hans of Denmark and Norway, sank in the Baltic Sea near Ronneby, Sweden, while the king was going to a political summit in Kalmar. Discovered by local divers in the early 1970s, the shipwreck only came to the attention of archaeologists…
