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 ...

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 ...

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 ...