Crucial to navigation was another Chinese invention of the first century, the sternpost rudder, fastened to the outside rear of a ship which could be raised and lowered according to the depth of the ...

Adela steel rebuild was highly controversial 20 yrs ago, Today she's the yacht that kick-started spirit of tradition.

centerline rudders attached to the sternpost, and masts that were not positioned along the ship's longitudinal centerline. Often the interpretation based upon such observations was that Chinese ...

Darren Rozier/BBC The ship's "backbone" - including the keel, stem and sternpost - has been built and its carpenters have been attaching planks with rivets "I've always said this is one big ...

Plans to launch a replica of the Anglo-Saxon burial ship found at Sutton Hoo have been put back a year. The 88ft (27m) reconstruction of the ship, excavated in 1939 near the Suffolk coast, is ...

Lips (known as Livas) is seen as a young man holding a ship's sternpost, because the Livas wind blew straight into the harbour of Piraeus, preventing ships from sailing Libs, the south west wind, from ...

Currently, the team behind the £1.5m scheme have built the "backbone" of the ship - including the keel, stem and sternpost - and now they have started attaching planks with rivets. Master ...

Throughout the excavations the team was led by Andre Tchernia, France's "first director of research in underwater archaeology" [1] and then assistant director of CNRS, and Patrice Pomey, a maritime ...

She said it was shaped to look like a taurapa (canoe sternpost), which looked like a sharkfin, on a waka and represented travel across the sea. “The attachment is huge for us with whakapapa here.” ...

Derived from Viking longships, they are smaller and have a rudder hung from a straight sternpost which repaces the long and heavy Viking steering oars. Mr Macdonald said: “Using the new galley ...